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FACULTY

A DREAM TO BE REALIZED

Lawrence reports to uneasy faculty ■ Presenters discussed

executive compensation and the University’s relationship with Al-Quds University.

By KATHRYN BRODY JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

The faculty convened last Thursday to discuss several current issues of contention, including the state of the University’s relationship with Al-Quds University and the topic of executive compensation.

University President Frederick Lawrence began the faculty meet-

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ing with updates on the Board of Trustees. He reported that the board, which will be meeting this week, will address executive compensation policies through a committee chaired by trustees and alumni.

In November, the Boston Globe published an article concerning the retention of President Emeritus Jehuda Reinharz, whose compensation, which consisted of more than $600,000 for the 2011 fiscal year, was called into question. Brandeis faculty, current students and alumni were shocked at the disclosure and started a petition demanding the reform of compensation practices

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DINING SERVICES

University food policy results in frustration

■ Students expressed

concern about the lack of shellfish and pork at campus dining halls.

By PHIL GALLAGHER JUSTICE EDITOR

Following student complaints on Facebook, Jay DeGioia, the director of campus dining services, confirmed to the Justice that Sodexo, the University’s new provider of dining services, does not serve pork or shellfish in University dining halls. The lack of pork and shellfish on campus is in compliance with an existing University policy and to the disenchantment of some University students.

DeGioia wrote in an email to the Justice that he understood the University’s policy to be that pork and shellfish are not served in University dining halls, although they can be served by student groups on campus, by vendors such as Quiznos and Dunkin’ Donuts and Sodexo food trucks. “[D]uring the bidding process it was clear that not allowing pork or shellfish to be served in the dining halls would be part of the new contract,” wrote DeGioia. Senior Vice President for Communications Ellen de Graffenreid confirmed

in an email to the Justice that the University has had “a longstanding policy” prohibiting the sale of pork or shellfish in dining halls. De Graffenreid wrote the policy is part of the University’s “heritage as a Jewish-sponsored institution.”

Despite the previous existence of the policy, many students recall being able to purchase pork and shellfish in the Usdan Café as recently as last year when Aramark was the dining services provider. Michael Piccione ’15 wrote in a Facebook message to the Justice that he had ordered scallops at Usdan Café “whenever [they were] offered” when Aramark was the dining services provider. “I don’t feel as if a coherent explanation has been given as to why they are not offered this year, and I don’t think their removal can be justified without polling the student body to see what we want to see served,” he wrote.

Joe Lanoie ’15 expressed a similar frustration. “[P]ork was the meat of choice for weekends, and I loved it. Now there is turkey ham and turkey bacon, but that is not what I pay for. I pay for pork ham and pork bacon, since the meal plan is mandatory where I live,” he wrote in a Facebook message to the Justice. “[T]he demands of the nonkosher community should not be neglected

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IMPARTING WISDOM: Hubert Sapp delivered the keynote address at the ninth annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial.

Students share stories at MLK Day memorial ■ Participants shared slam

poetry, words of inspiration and dance routines with audience members.

By RACHEL HUGHES JUSTICE EDITOR

A memorial program was held yesterday evening in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The program lasted approximately two hours and was the product of a collaborative sponsorship

by MLK & Friends Club, the Dean

of Students and the department for African and Afro-American Studies.

This is the ninth annual commemorative program that the University has hosted on the federal holiday.

Called “For the Love of a Dream!”—a title that borrows words from King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech—the program included an array of artistic performances and oratory pieces.

Dean of Students Jamele Adams provided an introduction for the evening, reciting a passionate original slam poem and introducing the host of the program Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS). In attendance was a full house of students, faculty, guest

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Skimming the surface

New nutritionist

A professor at the Heller School uses his new role to bring global health care to those in need.

 The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams hosted Trinity College last Saturday.

 The University hired Carolyn Butterworth to fill the vacancy left by Laura O’Gara.

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performers and members of the greater Brandeis community.

Williams provided historical perspective to King’s political activism as a leader of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, sharing details about King’s personal, academic and professional experiences in between speakers and performers. Williams related these details to King’s connection to the greater Boston area.

King received his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1957 and visited Brandeis to speak on three separate occasions: once in 1956, 1957 and 1963. “He knew why he was needed

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NEWS SENATE LOG

Senate discusses spring initiatives

On Sunday, the Senate met for the first time this semester to discuss events and initiatives for spring.

Student Union Vice President Charlotte Franco ’15 said that last week, Village Senator Bowen Li ’16 resigned due to a strenuous course-load this semester.

Elections will take place to fill the positions of Village Senator, Rosenthal Quad Senator, Off-Campus Senator, Midyear Senator, one position on the Judiciary and one on the Finance Board in the coming weeks.

Next, Student Union President Ricky Rosen ’14 delivered his executive report. According to Rosen, the student body has responded positively to the online forms for the BranVan. Rosen said he anticipates that in the future the Union will work toward greater online accessibility for other campus services. He also informed the Senate that the hours of the Brandeis shuttle to the Riverside Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station has officially changed from Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m. to Saturday and Sunday at the same time. Rosen expects the change to make transportation into Boston increasingly convenient for students in the upcoming semester.

Additionally, Rosen mentioned that David Barsky ’17 has been contracted to work on the Union website, which will be functional by the end of the year.

Rosen informed the Senate that the ’Deis Day cochairs have resigned because they do not have the time to commit to the project. As a result, Rosen urged members of the Senate to involve themselves in planning the event. According to Executive Senator Annie Chen ’14, ’Deis Day this year may feature a parade through campus in which clubs build golf-cart floats, school bands play or a capella groups join in the festivities.

Finally Rosen briefly discussed the ’Deis Impact! keynote address, which will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 5 in Levin Ballroom. Kweku and Ndaba Mandela, two of Nelson Mandela’s grandchildren, will attend the event.

Following the executive officer report, Senator at Large Naomi DePina ’16 delivered a report on the upcoming poetry slam to take place on Jan. 31. The event consists of students presenting their perspectives on the meanings of social justice and diversity. According to DePina, Dean of Students Jamele Adams will host and perform at the event.

Next, Class of 2015 Senator Anna Bessendorf and Class of 2016 Senator Jonathan Jacob introduced a proposal to create another BranVan stop at Waltham’s Main Street Marketplace, where dining options include Panera Bread and Chipotle Mexican Grill. The marketplace is situated near the BranVan’s current Walgreen’s stop and therefore the addition would only cause a minor change in the current BranVan schedule.

Bessendorf also discussed safety concerns on South Street near the Lemberg Children’s Center. In this area there are no streetlights, making a walk through the area of campus dangerous at night, said Bessendorf.

Bessendorf raised such concerns with Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan, who replied that the area is owned by the City of Waltham and therefore Brandeis has no jurisdiction to place a light post on that area of the street.

The Senate might introduce the issue to the interim vice president of operations or Waltham City Hall.

North Quad Senator Brian Hough ’17, a member of the Constitutional Review Task Force, stated that this semester he will continue working on amendments to the constitution but has no projected end date to the project.

The Sustainability Committee stated that more than 60 dual flush toilets have been installed in both Massell and North Quads. The committee will soon begin calculations to determine the impact of the initiative.

East Quad Senator Andrew Savage ’16 proposed a revisal of the Club Committee’s procedures. He expressed concerns over ineffective measures of de-chartering clubs due to inaccessible information or lack of communication with the Union. The Senate hopes to establish a better relationship between itself, the Finance Board and clubs to more efficiently monitor club activity.

POLICE LOG Sex Crimes

Jan. 13—A student in Ziv Quad reported a past assault from another student. University Police compiled a report of the incident and plan to conduct an investigation.

Jan. 14—The Office of Student Life reported past sexual assaults between two students to University Police. On Friday, the student formally reported the assault to University Police, who will conduct an investigation on the matter.

Medical Emergencies

Jan. 13—University Police received a report that a student had experienced a possible overdose on anti-depressant medication and suffered lacerations to her wrist. BEMCo responded and the student was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further treatment.

Jan. 14—A student in Shapiro Hall reported an allergic reaction to peanuts.

While University Police and BEMCo responded, he administered an epipen to himself. The student was then transported to

Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further treatment.

Jan. 14—A student reported a party fell and suffered head trauma while exercising in the Mandel Center for the Humanities. University Police and BEMCo responded, and from there, transported the patient to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further treatment.

Jan. 18—A student in Hassenfeld Hall reported that she hurt her ankle while getting out of bed. University Police and BEMCo responded, and after treatment, the student refused further care.

Jan. 19—University Police received a report of an intoxicated male student in Shapiro Hall.

University Police and BEMCo responded, and, after treating the student, transported him to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further treatment.

Larceny

Jan. 13—A staff worker in the Kosow Building reported that money had been taken from her wallet. University Police compiled a report of the theft.

Jan. 14—A student reported that a refrigerator and microwave were missing from the Pearlman Building common area. University Police compiled a report of the theft.

Jan. 17—Two students in Shapiro Hall stated their laptops were stolen from their rooms.

University Police compiled a report of the theft, but thereafter discovered that the students had recovered both items.

University Police took no further action.

Dec. 17—A staff member reported that $50 was stolen from a wallet in the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center.

University Police compiled a report of the incident.

Dec. 14—A staff member in the Shapiro Life Sciences Center reported the theft and use of a credit card.

University Police compiled a report of the incident and advised the staff member to cancel the card.

Drugs

Jan. 14—University Police compiled a report on drugs that

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

n The Men’s Basketball standings in Sports included Emory University twice and excluded Washington University in St. Louis. (Jan. 14, p. 15) ABIGAIL ROTHSTEIN/the Justice

Skyler Kasko ’14 shows off his skills to his fellow students while promoting his club during the Winter Involvement Fair. The fair took place last Sunday in the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.

n Morgan Brill ’17 helped to compile Brandeis Talks, as well as Lilah Zohar ’14 and Josh Horowitz ’14. (Jan. 14, p. 24)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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To kick off the New Year, the Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society will be holding a public debate. As the second-ranked team in the country, BADASS offers not only a thought-provoking debate between some of the top debaters in the world but also free dessert, a raffle and a good time.

Today from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the Mandel Center for the Humanities Room G03.

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Waltham Group Spring Recruitment Night

Stop by recruitment night to learn about all 21 volunteer programs, from working with kids to building homes and more. Sign up to get involved.

Tomorrow from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.

Study Abroad Mini-Fair

Are you still trying to figure out exactly where you would like to go abroad, or do you need a little bit of advice about filling out all of the applications? This is the perfect opportuni-

ty to meet with advisers from Brandeis or representatives from multiple Brandeis-approved programs, and ask them any questions you might have.

Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.

Marketing Career Forum

Jan. 15—A community advisor reported three students with open containers of alcohol near the Admissions Lot. University Police checked the area and were unable to locate the students.

Jan. 16—University Police received a report that two white males were attempting to break into Zipcars.

Upon arriving at the scene, University Police noted that both parties worked for the Zipcar company and, from there, took no further action.

Jan. 17—A student in Sherman Dining Hall reported a possible intoxicated male student. BEMCo, with University Police, treated the patient and transported him to NewtonWellesley Hospital for further treatment.

—compiled by Adam Rabinowitz

Starbucks app updates

n An article in News indicated that the University eliminated its secure network. The University still has a secure network, however, it just replaced Brandeis_secure with eduroam. (Jan. 14, p. 5)

n Brandeis Talks incorrectly identified Eva Chu ’14 as Eva Chill ’14. (Jan. 14, p. 24)

Miscellaneous

WIRE BRIEF

JUGGLING ACTIVITIES

—Rachel Uemoto

n The cover of the Arts section should have stated the year of publication as 2014, rather than 2013. (Jan. 14, p. 17)

were sent to a community member via the United States Postal Service. University Police plan to conduct an investigation on the matter.

This annual forum provides the Brandeis community of over 400 students, faculty and staff interested in the fields of advertising, marketing, public relations, publishing and media with exciting insights into emerging trends and topics, from new media to agency versus nonagency career paths. The event will begin with a keynote speaker. After the formal program, the keynote speaker will join additional industry guests in co-hosting speed networking tables that will enable students to rotate through conversations with an array of experts who can provide insights about their careers, academic backgrounds and organizations.

Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Hassenfeld Conference Center.

SEATTLE—Starbucks Corp. said it will soon roll out an update for its iOS mobile application, which a security expert says had a critical flaw that potentially exposed customer data to computer-savvy phone thieves.

Cyber-security researcher Daniel Wood disclosed this week that Starbucks’ digital wallet app for the iPhone doesn’t encrypt critical customer data—including email, password and credit card information. That makes it vulnerable to a hacker or a thief who physically takes someone’s iPhone.

Starbucks Chief Information Officer Curt Garner, in a letter to customers posted on the company’s website Thursday, acknowledged that Wood’s report highlighted “theoretical vulnerabilities.”

Starbucks maintains that it had already added new barriers to protect the data, though it won’t elaborate for security reasons. The update to the app, Garner wrote, is being readied out of an “abundance of caution” to add extra layers of protection. “We expect this update to be ready soon,” he wrote.

The company has said that the app for Google’s Android mobile operating system doesn’t have the flaw.

Garner wrote that there’s no indication that anyone’s data has been compromised. He added that Starbucks customers who think their information may have been compromised should contact the company at 1-800-23-LATTE or www.starbucks. com/customer.

The flaw comes in the midst of rising worries about retailers’ ability to safely handle customer data, including credit card information. During the holiday season, Target and Neiman Marcus suffered major cyber-heists.

For Starbucks, data safety is critical, especially as an increasing number of customers rely on their smartphones to store their loyalty cards.

Some 11 percent of U.S. transactions in the quarter ended in September were made using the mobile app.

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Hoops For Haiti

Hoops for Haiti is an annual basketball game between staff and students that seeks to raise money for Shaina Gilbert’s ’10 camp, Empowering Through Education. Camp ETE is an education and youth leadership camp that Gilbert founded in Haiti.

Sunday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.

Ari Shavit Lecture

Ari Shavit, Haaretz columnist and public intellectual, has written a provocative new book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel. As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, his book asks difficult but important questions: Why, and how, did Israel come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed light on the present.

Monday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Hassenfeld Conference Center.

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committee, which met last Friday, has no prediction for a set timeline.

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Rabbi Chayim Zirkind, who oversees kosher dining on campus, helped to set up Louis’, the kosher New York-style delicatessen that opened in the Usdan Student Center yesterday.

STUDENT LIFE

University hires nutritionist will fill the vacancy in the Health Center left by former nutitionist Laura O’Gara.

By RACHEL UEMOTO JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

On Thursday, the Golding Health Center sent out an email to the Brandeis community introducing students to new University Nutritionist Carolyn Butterworth. Butterworth will serve students from the campus’ Health Center, adopting the responsibilities of former University Nutritionist Laura O’Gara. In addition to working in the Health Center, Butterworth will begin working with Sodexo’s nutritionist at Brandeis, Kate Moran. Butteworth was hired on Dec. 12, but did not begin seeing students clinically until last Friday.

Butterworth’s main role on campus will be working with students to develop healthier eating habits, offering assistance for student athlete

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diets and eating disorder counseling.

Additionally, Butterworth is available to discuss dining options for students with food allergies.

“I wish to promote health and wellness in the Brandeis community,” wrote Butterworth in an email to the Justice. “I seek to be a resource to students who are experiencing some [gastroenterological] issues, weight issues, nutrition problems related to stress as well as student athletes and students looking to improve overall health,” she continued.

Butterworth wrote that college is a critical time for students to construct healthy eating habits, and, that as students learn to become independent, they must learn to make healthy dietary choices that will ultimately shape their eating habits later in life.

However, Butterworth said she recognizes that the on-campus selections may not be suited to students’ dietary needs for medical or other reasons. She and Moran plan to increase resources for students who lack access to proper nutrition on

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According to the email sent out Thursday, Butterworth has previous experience working with youth. She has worked as a consultant for multiple preparatory schools and universities, including Wellesley College.

In addition, she currently works in the Massachusetts General Hospital in the pediatric gastroenterologist clinic. Butterworth has an extensive background with dietary and digestive disorders and sports nutrition, with a focus on newborns to young adults.

Butterworth earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire and her master’s in clinical exercise physiology from Northeastern University. She is also a registered dietician and nurse.

Students may schedule counseling appointments with Butterworth in the Health Center, which is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays.

Butterworth is available for appointments on Tuesdays and every other Friday.

After the University’s Exploratory Committee on Fossil Fuel Divestment had its first meeting of the calendar year on Friday, the exact nature of the six-month-old committee’s progress remains uncertain.

Rohan Bhatia ’14, a student on the committee, said in an interview with the Justice that while the committee does not have the authority or expertise to make any recommendations to the Board of Trustees, the committee hopes “to give them a wellsubstantiated presentation on the impacts of divestment to Brandeis” as well as the “larger social impact of no action taken with regards to climate change.” Bhatia was unable to provide a specific timeline for any progress, but told the Justice that he hopes the Board “will review and respond to [the committee’s] report” at a future meeting.

The spring 2013 semester saw significant student involvement in lobbying the administration to divest the University from fossil fuels, spearheaded by the student group Students for a Just and Stable Future. These efforts included events such as a mock climate refugee camp in Fellows Garden and a march through campus in support of divestment, and culminated in a divestment referendum in the Student Union’s annual April election.

Seventy-nine percent of students who voted agreed that the University should divest its endowment from fossil fuels.

According to Bhatia, the committee has made progress in its three main research tracks: financial impact, social impact and alternatives. Bhatia described the financial impact as looking “into the financial impact of divestment on our endowment,” one of the main arguments used against calls to divest.

As far as social impact, Bhatia said that this research track “delves into health, economic and other impacts of climate change which will become a reality” if certain human environmental behaviors remain unchanged. In terms of alternatives, Bhatia told the Justice that the committee was looking into “other mechanisms and strategies the University may employ, in addition to or in place of, divestment as laid out by 350.org.” The website 350.org is the online home of the self-described

“grassroots movement” that aims to “hold our leaders accountable to the realities of science and the principles of justice” according to its “about us” section.

According to Bhatia, the three research teams will compile their findings into one report for the Investments Committee of the Board of Trustees.

Bhatia also said that he hopes the Board will review and respond to the committee’s findings at one of their upcoming meetings.

The existence of the committee, which was formed over the summer, was formally announced on Sept.

30, 2013 in an email from University President Frederick Lawrence to the Brandeis community. Peter Giumette, dean of Student Financial Services, is the chair of the committee.

According to Lawrence’s email, the committee was formed to examine “the University’s investments in fossil fuels.” The committee will ultimately present a report of its findings to the University, addressing “how it can invest and divest responsibly” while simultaneously “strengthening its leadership in the context of climate change and social justice.”

Lawrence also stated that the committee’s goals are “analyzing the social and environmental justice impacts of the fossil fuel companies in which Brandeis holds investments,” determining the impact of divestment on the endowment, establishing a list of alternative investment options that are more socially and environmentally friendly and “addressing a more global objective of reducing the endowment’s carbon footprint.”

The committee is composed of faculty, staff, students alumni and Len Potter ’83, Board of Trustees Investment Committee member. Members include Student Union President Ricky Rosen ’14, Bhatia, Prof. John Ballantine (IBS), Prof. Eric Olson (Heller), Mike Abrams ’15, Rachel Soule ’12 and Colin Mew M.B.A. ’14.

Administration members include Senior Vice President of Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel, Senior Vice President of Communications Ellen de Graffenreid, Associate Provost of Innovation in Education Prof. Dan Perlman (BIOL), Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff David Bunis ’83 and Chief Investment Officer Nick Warren.

The Divestment Committee meets every three weeks, according to Bhatia. Guimette and Abrams did not respond to the Justice by press time, while Ballantine could not be reached for comment regarding Friday’s meeting.

STUDENT UNION

Committee focuses on planning for upcoming ’Deis Day ■ The full-day event will

feature a parade, battle of the bands and a keynote speaker this year.

By JAY FEINSTEIN JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Brandeis is not “a rah-rah-paintyour-face-and-run-around school,” according to Kelsey Segaloff ’15.

However, on April 6, Brandeis will “show our school spirit the Brandeis way” during the second annual ’Deis Day, said Segaloff, who was on the ’Deis Day Committee and recently resigned.

The event will consist of a parade,

a battle of the bands and a keynote speaker, according to Student Union President Ricky Rosen ‘14. There will also be an attempt to break a record for the Guinness Book of World Records, which would be a first for Brandeis, he said, although the specific record has not been chosen yet.

This year’s event will preserve elements of last year’s ’Deis Day like the Battle of the Bands, the giveaways and the mascot involvement, according to Rosen, but it will be on a much bigger scale. Last year’s event only lasted a few hours and was inside, but this year, the ’Deis Day Committee plans to hold a full-day event outside aimed at attracting all members of the Brandeis community, including students, faculty, alumni, trustees and even families of current and pro-

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spective students, Rosen said.

“The goal is to have every group and organization that embodies some aspect of what it means to be Brandeis on display, everything from athletic teams to the a cappella groups to the competitive academic clubs,” he said.

“We want to resurrect Brandeis spirit and we want everybody involved.”

Although specific details, like whether the parade will be a walking parade or consist of floats, are still being decided, the goal of the event is to bring people together, Rosen said.

According to Rosen, Brandeis spirit prompts alumni to reconnect with Brandeis and reaches out to prospective students who might be visiting for the first time. “Events like this create exposure for Brandeis. The University can showcase its best

qualities to attract new people,” he said.

Deis Day started last year when then-Executive Senator Rosen and former Student Union President Todd Kirkland ’13 sought to plan a Brandeis spirit day similar to spirit days at other colleges and universities. “The initial plan for the day was to have classes be cancelled, but that is not going to be possible now or in the next few years,” Rosen said. “Maybe 10 years from now we can have an event where classes are cancelled and people come to support Brandeis,” he suggested.

According to ’Deis Day Committee member Sara Pedersen ’15, ’Deis Day is all about “trying to create the unique essence of Brandeis what it means to be Brandeisian.

“We are a community of people who are so driven and accomplished,” she said. “Everyone is passionate about what they are going and sharing that passion that will make for a more thriving, stimulating environment,” she said in an interview with the Justice.

Pedersen said the ’Deis Day Committee has received positive responses from many students. “We are expecting there to be a unanimous involvement by the teams and organizations on campus,” she said.

Segaloff and Bethany Adam ’15 were co-coordinators of the event but informed the Justice that they resigned for personal reasons. Pedersen, who was the sole coordinator initially, had resigned previously. New coordinators are yet to be appointed.

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TAKING COVER

BRIEF Justice Brandeis Semester sees expansion with new programs This year, the Justice Brandeis Semester summer program will be offering an unprecedented eight new programs covering a multitude of disciplines, with topics including architectural design, immigration, health and archeology.

In the past three years, summer sessions have included two or three programs.

Three programs that were offered last year will accompany these eight programs. The Justice Brandeis Semester is an “engaging, immersive academic program in which small groups of students explore a thematic topic through inquiry-based courses linked to real-world experiential opportunities,” according to the program’s website.

Participants also gain “realworld experience through experiential learning” and acquire “skills that will make them stand apart from their peers after Brandeis,” according to the website’s description.

Tuition for the summer 2014 program is $12,500.

The program’s website describes the experience as “[representing] some of the best elements of undergraduate education at Brandeis,” and is billed

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as “an exciting opportunity for students and another example of the University’s innovative approach to education.”

The following new programs are being offered during the summer 2014 session: “Architectural Design Study,” Prof. Christopher Abrawms (FA); “Brand Marketing and Communication,” Prof. Grace Zimmerman (IBS); “Breaking Boundaries: Immigration and Education,” Profs. Kristen Lucken (SOC) and Mitra Shavarini (WMGS); “Civil Rights and Educational Equity in the U.S.,” Prof. David Cunningham (SOC); “Exploring the Past, Impacting the Future: Archeological Field School,” Ph.D. candidate Donald Slater (ANTH) and Prof. Javier Urcid (ANTH); “Health, Law and Justice,” Profs. Sarah Curi (LGLS) and Alice Noble (HS); “Real Estate Development and Investment,” Prof. Edward Chazen (IBS); “Understanding the American Jewish Community,” Profs. Ellen Smith (NEJS), Amy Sales (NEJS) and Leonard Saxe (NEJS).

Applications for the Justice Brandeis Semester are being accepted on a rolling basis and are due on March 15.

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Students participated in an indoor laser tag battle in the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center Atrium on Friday night, a part of Student Activities’ Winter Week.

RESEARCH

Research project awarded grant through W.M. Keck ■ Four University professors

are involved in the project, which will explore the origins of life from inorganic molecules.

By SARAH RONTAL JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

A Brandeis University research project examining the chemical origins of life was recently awarded a three-year, one million dollar grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, according to a Jan. 17 BrandeisNOW article. According to Prof. Irving Epstein (CHEM) in the article, the project will focus on “exploring possible avenues of how life could emerge from non-living matter.”

Researchers involved in the project include Epstein, Profs. Li Deng (CHEM), Bing Xu (CHEM) and Michael Hagan (PHYS), according to BrandeisNOW. The project directs its attention to a “gap in life’s timeline” from the

formation of simple amino acids to that of complicated nucleic acids, according to BrandeisNOW. Xu wrote in an email to the Justice that “[o]ne question we try to answer is ... how small simple molecules come together to form certain assemblies during a reaction, which may help understand how simple molecules like amino acids ... become complicate[d] biomacromolecules like proteins.”

Previous research focused either on earlier or later parts of life’s timeline, according to BrandeisNOW. Sixty years ago, University of Chicago chemists discovered how complex molecules such as amino acids could be produced by a reaction of simple molecules like water or methane. Later research projects examined how complex molecules like nucleotides may react to form “complex, cell-like structures,” according to BrandeisNOW. Researchers will examine two qualities of molecular catalysts that “lead to more complex reactions

and more complex structures,” according to BrandeisNOW: those that may increase their number (autocatalytic) and those that are “capable of self-organization,” meaning they can “spontaneously arrange themselves in intricate patterns by utilizing energy from their surroundings.”

In order to achieve conditions similar to those that would have existed at this stage of the emergence of life, researchers will study the molecules in extreme temperatures and in extreme acid environments, according to BrandeisNOW. According to Hagan in BrandeisNOW, the research may help explain “how these motifs we see all around us today could arise.” For example, he said, it may answer the question of whether “a small fluctuation in the abundance of left-handed amino acids in an early, pre-biologic system [could] take over to yield the exclusively lefthanded proteins found in presentday biology.”

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MLK: Hubert Sapp delivers keynote speech CONTINUED FROM 1 during his all-too-short life,” Williams told the audience.

The lineup of performances began after Williams’ introduction, with a three-part tap-dance routine by members of the Boston Tap Company.

Following the performance, Brandeis’ MLK & Friends Club spoke to the audience, relaying how the scholarship program the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship, that inspired the formation of the club began in 1969 to appease student protesters inspired by King’s teachings.

The first ever cohort of Brandeis Bridges Fellows, a group of 10 black and Jewish undergraduate students, then took to the stage. Members of the group traveled to Israel in December 2013,—accompanied

by Adams and the University’s Jewish Chaplain, Rabbi Elyse Winick ’86,—completing an itinerary that they created in order to learn about interfaith and interracial tolerance. Bridges Fellow Amaris Brown ’16 spoke to the audience about the group’s experiences and related its mission to King’s values.

The performances continued with a vocal performance by Makalani Mack ’16, who sang “A Change

in the name of sensitivity,” he further commented.

De Graffenreid explained that she was unfamiliar with these accounts. “I don’t know what the situation was with Aramark,” she wrote.

Class of 2017 Senator David Heaton, the chair of the Senate Dining Committee, and Student Union Vice President Charlotte Franco ’15, both expressed a desire to see the policy overturned in an interview with the Justice. “Over Facebook, there’s kind of been a recent uproar the past couple of days about shellfish not being served on campus along with pork products as well, and we are addressing that,” said Heaton in an interview with the Justice.

Franco expressed concern about the University representing the dietary interests of a wide array of students. “We’re an institution that prides ourselves on being diverse and being open to the community and really fostering a larger sense of diversity, and I think that really needs to be expressed in the meal options,” she said in an interview with the Justice.

In 1987, then-University President Evelyn Handler introduced pork and shellfish to the Usdan Café and Usdan Boulevard, according to a Sept. 3, 1987 article in the Justice. In that article, thenUniversity Chaplain Rabbi Albert Axelrad affirmed his comfort with the University serving pork and shellfish. “It is important that everyone feel at home at Brandeis; if some Brandeisians want shellfish and pig products, that deserves to be satisfied,” he said, although he strongly objected to future University plans to expand the sale of pig and shellfish into Sherman Dining Hall, where kosher food is served.

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is Gonna Come,” a song by musician Sam Cook.

Williams then introduced the event’s keynote speakers, Hubert and Jane Sapp, who featured a storied legacy of civil rights activism.

Jane Sapp conveyed her joy at the commemoration to the audience and performed two songs that were anthems of civil rights rallies in the 1960s.

Before her second song, she told the audience, with a hopeful tone, “We need you young people more than ever.”

Mr. Sapp shared stories of his experience as a special assistant to King in 1967, and, additionally, alluded to King’s personal commitment to his activism. King's work, he said, inspired his own lifelong activism.

The evening ended with a performance by hip-hop dance group KAOS Kids and an oration of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech by Jermaine Hamilton ’14. Bronte Velez ’16 also delivered an especially moving original slam poem chronicling her encounters with racism throughout her life and discussing how King’s philosophy inspires her today.

—Ellie Benjamin contributed reporting.

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from those expansion plans, according to an article in the Justice from Oct. 20, 1987.

The new cuisine was met with resistance from some students, faculty and donors in the University community and Handler faced accusations of taking the Jewish identity out of the school. An article in the New York Times from April 25, 1988 indicates in response to the new dining options, a group of students “unveiled three shanties to represent the homes of the three little pigs in the children’s fairy tale.”

Noam Cohen ’16, the president of the Brandeis Orthodox Organization, said in a phone interview with the Justice that the prohibition on serving pork and shellfish had little impact on the BOO community. “From a BOO perspective, I think that we, members of the BOO community, really focus more on having more kosher options in University dining,” he said. “I think that really the members of the ...

Orthodox community don’t really care about what is served in the non-Kosher eating establishments on campus,” he added.

Before the prohibition, it was possible that pork and shellfish products could come into contact with kosher-style foods, which are foods without a kosher certification, in Usdan and the non-kosher section of Sherman. Rabbi David Pardo, the co-director of the Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, expressed his belief in a phone interview with the Justice that the prohibition could benefit Jewish students who eat in all the campus dining halls but may specifically refrain from eating pork and shellfish and prefer that their food not come into contact with those forbidden foods. Rabbi Elyse Winick ’86, the University’s Jewish chaplain, could not be reached for comment by press time.

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UPDATING THE CROWD: University President Frederick Lawrence spoke to professors at the faculty meeting last Thursday.

MEETING: Faculty members discuss Al-Quds partnership CONTINUED FROM 1 for the University. Proposals are to be presented to the board, all of which are aimed toward increasing transparency.

Lawrence expressed confidence in the committee from his own “experience of being in on some of those meetings” as well as the feedback he has received from the Board of Trustees.

Lawrence further reported that budget models—the current as well as the projected—show that the University is “well ahead of the target” in regard to reducing the deficit, which consists of more than $6.5 million. The deficit, according to the models, will be eliminated in the 2015 to 2016 fiscal year. Additionally, he announced that the Board of Trustees will begin planning this year’s capital campaigns at their meeting. These campaigns will be primarily focused on raising funds for the purpose of building endowments that would provide financial aid to students, said Lawrence.

At a Nov. 7 faculty meeting, Provost Steve Goldstein ’78 announced that the “quiet phase” of a capital campaign would begin in January.

At Thursday’s meeting, Goldstein took the podium after Lawrence to identify several members of the faculty who had achieved recognition in the coming new year for their work, including Prof. Thomas Doherty (AMST) whose book, Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, earned positive reviews from the New York Times, Profs. Alfredo Gisholt (FA) and Joseph Wardwell (FA), whose works are to be exhibited in New York City—Gisholt’s at the CUE Art Foundation in February while Wardwell’s mural entitled “Chose Not To” is currently on display on 73 East Houston Street—and Prof.

Jonathan Sarna (NEJS), who was elected president of the Association for Jewish Studies.

Goldstein went on to report that the ongoing construction projects on campus started this summer were delayed by two weeks due to the recent weather. Goldstein said that the construction is expected to catch up to the timetable in a week.

The provost also noted that the campus will see other construction projects during the next three years in efforts to continue renovation of the University, which included the remodeling of East Quad this past summer as well as the previous projects of the Mandel Center for the Humanities building, Massell Quad and other buildings.

Lawrence then addressed the suspension of the partnership between Al-Quds University and Brandeis University. The partnership, which was suspended on Nov. 18, has existed for the past decade, but was strained when students organized a demonstration that allegedly consisted of participants donning black military uniforms and making Nazilike gestures that took place on the university’s main campus on Nov. 5.

Despite Lawrence’s decision to suspend the relationship, he has attempted to keep “open lines of communication” between the two universities, he stated at the faculty meeting. Daniel Terris, the director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, and Profs. Susan Lanser (ENG) and Daniel Kryder (POL) were sent to AlQuds after the demonstrations took place to further investigate the situation, although their trip had been scheduled prior to the demonstrations. Terris took the podium and reported that he and the other committee members found that it was generally agreed at Al-Quds that the

rally “violated [Al-Quds’] principles and policies” after extensive conversations with senior administrators, key faculty members and students.

The faculty at Al-Quds, especially those who were involved in the joint projects with Brandeis, wish to resume the partnership and go on with previously planned projects, which were to be corroborations of Brandeis faculty and their own faculty, Terris said.

When the floor opened for questions and comments, Prof. Jacob Cohen (AMST) brought up some inconsistencies he observed from the Al-Quds website including the idea that the university believed that there is no Judaic claim on Jerusalem.

The article he mentions discusses a partnership of Israeli and Palestinian experts on the Esplanade of the Mosques, also known as the “Temple Mount,” which is a site of contention as it is both sacred to Judaic as well as Islamic beliefs. Cohen, though, specifically referred to the note that “The lack of archaeological evidence of the ancient temples [of Solomon and Jerusalem] has led many Palestinians to deny any real Jewish attachment or claim to the plateau.”

The majority of the faculty, however, expressed an endorsement of Lawrence’s commitment to open communications and the committee’s work. Prof. Marya Levenson ’64 (ED) noted that, in her experience, to such political misunderstandings such as the demonstration as well as the political debates concerning Jerusalem, the proper response “is not to end a partnership, but to strengthen it.” Prof. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (CLAS) further added that “dialogue is the thing we need on hard and painful and difficult” examination of these conflicts.

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HUMANE HEALTH: Prof. Allyala Nandakumar (Heller) was selected to be USAID’s chief economist to develop global health financing strategies.

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Social justice can, at times, seem like an ideal that is hard to define — a construct impossible to concretely extend beyond the walls of a classroom. At Brandeis, however, there are faculty members who devote their careers to bringing this ideal to fruition, working every day to translate theory into practice in order to defend the world’s most vulnerable people.

Prof. Allyala K. Nandakumar (Heller) is one of these faculty members, an economist who has succeeded in finding efficient ways to deliver health care to the poorest and most marginalized sector of the global population. In his new role as chief economist for Global Health for the United States Agency for International Development, which began in November 2013, Nandakumar will provide a crucial voice that synthesizes economic expertise and humanitarianism. “My role is to try to sit there, and shape the strategies and policies of the United States government. You are part of these big discussions, you are shaping what is happening,” Nandakumar said.

Nandakumar completed his undergraduate and master’s studies in India in the field of mathematics.

He then worked for several years as a bureaucrat, running large organizations in India, before being one of two Indians selected to become a Fulbright scholar in the U.S. As a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Boston University, he wrote a paper about health economics that impressed his professor. He immediately introduced Nandakumar to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management’s Dr. Stan Wallack, and Nandakumar’s relationship with Brandeis was born.

Nandakumar and Wallack had a mutual passion for analyzing problems in the financing and delivery of health care. Nandakumar promised Wallack he would eventually join him at The Heller School, but in the meantime he accepted a faculty position at Harvard University in order to explore other aspects of eco-

nomics before he committed to specializing in social policy at Heller.

Throughout his 25 years as a professor and researcher, Nandakumar has worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the World Health Organization and the World Bank as a consultant, creating a unique role for himself at the intersection between the academic community and the political world of global health.

For Nandakumar, who resides in a unique intersection between the political and the academic, the Heller school is the ideal environment to conduct research and translate it into policy. “What is most critical is how one brings research to practice.

One must ask, ‘if I want to translate this research into policy, what are the potential barriers to implementation, and what are the interventions that can be performed?’” Nandakumar said.

Nandakumar will be the first person to occupy the role of chief economist for Global Health for the United States Agency for International Development. This role was created by the U.S. government in response to significant structural changes in the global arena regarding health care financing and the number of small donors who play a role in financing global health. “The number of people who are playing in this space and trying to address major global problems has increased,” Nandakumar said.

Also affecting the rapidly changing face of global health is the magnitude of economic growth in African countries, as well as countries such as Brazil, China and Russia.

“They are becoming big economic powers who have a different say. ...

The kind of assistance you provide needs to be rethought,” he said. By a vast margin, the largest funder of global health in the world is the United States government, and assistance flows through USAID. Nandakumar’s first goal as chief economist involves engaging the political world with the academic one. “The first goal is to actively bring health systems, health financing and health economics to bear on

some of the big internal discussions that are taking place to inform and shape those discussions,” Nandakumar said.

Secondly, Nandakumar plans to work directly with the countries themselves in order to install functional health systems that accurately address the needs of individual countries. “From the health systems perspective, it’s not a question of going in and doing the work. I go in, put in clean water, and I’m out.

Nothing is left behind. So I think the perspective the U.S. government is taking, rightly, is to create country systems that are sustainable. Countries are increasingly going to take ownership of their own destiny,” Nandakumar said.

Third, Nandakumar plans to build external partnerships with organizations he has worked with in the past, such as the Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization. “I hope to mentor, create and strengthen a network of health economists, and people interested in health financing, within USAID,” Nandakumar said.

The ideal of social justice and global health policy are, from Nandakumar’s perspective, inextricably linked. For Nandakumar, it is a moral necessity that efficiency is balanced with equality. “Society is obligated to pay more attention to those who have less. Everybody should be treated equally, and everybody should have equal access, therefore we are required to look specifically at the poor and marginalized populations. You come up with a very different policy recommendations if you put a social justice lens on social policy,” Nandakumar said.

Nandakumar encourages aspiring advocates for social justice.

“You are all here because you believe in social justice. … It is not easy to make it happen, the fights are not always easy, but I really feel that it is worth it,” he said.

“My only advice is you are here at this great place—remain passionate, don’t give up. As individuals we cannot solve all the problems, but each one of us is capable of making a difference.”

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“No meaningful discussion, about any topic, can occur without accurate facts and appropriate context.” This is part of the mission statement of the Students for Accuracy about Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, a student organization that was approved to become a chartered campus club on Dec. 8, 2013.

The club was founded by Daniel Mael ’15, Guy Morag ’17 and Ari Givner ’17.

SAIPA’s core mission is to expose media manipulation in order to further establish campus event accuracy by attending campussponsored events. SAIPA then issues a report on the event with the intention of holding campus speakers accountable to any misinformation they may have shared. “This will change the nature of MiddleEast affairs discussions because when people know they are being monitored they are much less likely to present their opinions as facts.” Morag noted in an e-mail to the Justice.

“We always want to make sure that everyone has a fair chance to explore the issues from a factual perspective. Brandeis is a perfect climate to debut a club like this because there are so many groups that care about it,” Mael said.

Mael, Morag and Givner had been talking for a long time about starting a group that exposes media manipulation. Mael explained that they reached their tipping point at a Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee event in which there was conflict between certain campus groups over facts and definitions.

Brandeis already has several clubs that are involved in the Israeli and Palestinian debate. “We felt that every group that was talking about the Israeli conflict, [on campus] was an interest group,” Mael said. “We are simply trying to make sure that students have a fair shot at that facts … [and] can form their own opinion afterward,” Mael said.

SAIPA hosted an event on Oct. 29, in which it brought in guest speaker Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, an Israeli Defense Force combat veteran.

“He was explicitly clear that this is his narrative, and that it did not represent what our organization thinks. We believe that it is important that we hear varying perspectives and give them a forum to speak,” Mael said. The event was hosted in conjunction with the Brandeis Libertarian Conservative Union and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

Mael indicated that the group hosted the event as a way of raising visibility for SAIPA in their early stages, but that going forward,

SAIPA will focus on exposing media manipulation and ensuring the accuracy of campus events hosted by other groups.

On Nov. 12, Neil Hertz, professor emeritus at John Hopkins University, gave a presentation called “Pastoral in Palestine.”

The University and six other campus organizations sponsored the event. SAIPA attended and wrote a report following the presentation. “[Hertz] supported boycott divestment and sanction movement in his question-answer session. That is his opinion and SAIPA made no mention of that in our report.”

Mael said. “What we did make a mention of was that he said that excavating the city of David was a private-public joint venture in displacing Palestinians from East Jerusalem … [describing what] is in the Jewish tradition a very significant place as simply a venture in displacing Palestinians is misleading to the community.”

SAIPA has not been well-received by all campus clubs that deal with Israeli and Palestinian affairs.

“My question for those that oppose us or have problems with SAIPA is why is a group that is oriented to find the truth problematic?

It should be no problem that a set of students have come together to try to ensure that an objective truth is presented,” said Mael.

Responding to the club’s mission and activities thus far, J Street U Brandeis Co-president Catie Stewart ’16 stated in an e-mail to the Justice that “[W]hile interrogating assumptions and perspectives is a value we share with SAIPA, we believe that no group is truly apolitical or ‘objective’ and we would hope that the organization is frank about their own political motivations.”

J Street U is a self described “proIsrael, pro-peace organization advocating for a two-state solution.”

Anyone, despite their stance on Israel, is welcome to join SAIPA. “I don’t know many people who are happy to have others monitoring their work and then finding their biases published online for the world to see. With that said, we have encouraged members of all organizations on campus to join us,” Morag noted.

SAIPA plans to extend their “pro-truth, pro-honesty” agenda through a monthly or biweekly publication where they can share the perspective from two sides. “I think that’s very unique because when someone actually has to articulate a thought on writing, you would hope they bring their best honesty and most well thought out ideas,” said Mael.

“If one student can be positively impacted and have a little bit better understanding of media manipulation and fact manipulation I think we’ve done a good job,” Mael said.

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Buffer zone law must be upheld In light of harassment at reproductive health care facilities in Massachusetts, the state legislature passed a law in 2007 to regulate foot traffic within a 35-foot perimeter of such facilities. Only patients, clinic employees, law enforcement and passersby are allowed within the buffer zone, while protesters must stay behind the yellow semi-circle that surrounds the facility’s entrance.

Last week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case McCullen v. Coakley, which questions the legitimacy of this Massachusetts law as a violation of protesters’ free speech rights.

Anti-abortion protesters argue that the buffer zone law restricts their right to discuss matters of public importance on sidewalks. They say the law is unconstitutional because it targets a specific topic by only applying to health care facilities and it favors one side of the discourse by allowing health care workers into the buffer zone.

However, more than the right of protesters to discuss abortion within 35 feet of a reproductive health clinic is at stake; this case endangers women’s access to health services and the right of an individual to securely seek medical treatment.

In this Massachusetts law, the state legitimately exercises its power to protect the well-being by helping grant an important right to individuals—unimpeded access to health facilities. Individuals entering any health care facility, and even more so reproductive health facilities, often experience heightened emotional, physical or psychological distress. The sensitive environment of these health facilities makes it particularly subject to protection.

Massachusetts, moreover, has a history of violence near abortion clinics. In 1994, for example, a gunman killed two and wounded five others in a shooting rampage at two Massachusetts abortion facilities.

Free speech is not impeded An important aspect of the American experience is our commitment to free speech, which allows protesters such as the Westboro Baptist Church, a small church known for picketing military funerals that also protested across from the University in 2010, to hold signs on South Street promoting views contrary to the core of what it means to be a Brandeisian. Speech should not be restricted even if we find its message abhorrent; the best way to fight a bad idea is to leave it open to be refuted and defeated in the public sphere.

In the case of buffer zones, however, there is an opportunity for anti-abortion protesters to voice their opinions and pass messages to individuals as they walk toward health facilities. The state is not silencing a particular opinion; it is merely prescribing limited restrictions on where any opinion can be expressed. Voices are not silenced because they must stand behind a yellow line. The public sphere is still very much open to all points of view.

The law, moreover, applies equally to all sides of the issue; neither pro-life, prochoice nor any type of protesters are allowed within the buffer zone.

In 2000, the Court upheld a similar law in Colorado, which made it illegal to approach within 6 feet of someone entering a health facility without their consent while within 100 feet of the facility. A similar law proved too complicated to enforce in Massachusetts so the state deferred to a blanket prohibition within 35 feet of such a facility.

The limited restriction imposed by a 35foot buffer zone is essential to protect these vulnerable individuals. The Court should uphold the Massachusetts law to protect individuals from being harassed when entering a reproductive health facility.

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On New Year’s Day, a new Colorado law allowing for the legal purchase and recreational use of marijuana went into effect. Washington state will follow suit with its own recreational marijuana law later this year.

In both states, citizens age 21 or older with legal identification will be able to purchase up to an ounce of cannabis at a time and smoke on private property with no repercussions. 14 other states have decriminalized marijuana, meaning that possession of the drug in small quantities is treated as a minor offense, comparable to a parking violation. The new laws in Colorado and Washington have drawn strong support and strong criticism from either side of the drug debate. Will other states follow Colorado and Washington’s model, and should they?

Daniel Goulden ’14 We cannot deny that marijuana has become a mainstay of our culture. In college campuses all over the country, “lighting up” is a popular Saturday night activity. As a democracy we have legalized vices, alcohol, gambling, tobacco, allowing the consumer to decide if she, or he, would like to take that risk. Why is marijuana any different? More importantly, legalizing marijuana is an important step in ending the war on drugs. The war on drugs has cost the U.S. government hundreds of millions of dollars, and has been a failure. Millions of people have been incarcerated for possessing marijuana. This is ridiculous. We need to develop a more compassionate way of dealing with drug addiction, one that stresses treatment instead of punishment. Legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington will help keep people out of prison, as well as demonstrate that we can have a different view of drugs.

Daniel Goulden ’14 is a member of Students for a Democratic Society.

Morris Didia ’14 While I do not condone the use of marijuana, I believe other states should follow the example of Colorado and legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

Once legalized, states could tax the drug which would generate more revenue for state treasuries. Also, legalizing the drug will eliminate it from the black market thus mitigating the violence and death toll caused by the drug cartels. Lastly, our taxpayer dollars should and could be spent on more beneficial projects instead of wasting money on drug raids and the booking and legal process for those arrested for being in possession and using the drug.

How is marijuana any different from alcohol? If the U.S. saw fit to decriminalize alcohol over 80 years ago, it is time to do the same for marijuana. It is just one less intrusion by the federal government into our personal lives.

Change non-kosher dining policies The University’s change in its dining provider from Aramark to Sodexo this past summer brought a wave of new locations and food services for the greater campus community.

One segment of students that is particularly pleased with the dining services switch is the kosher observant community. Dunkin’ Donuts serves fully certified kosher products such as coffee, bagels and donuts, and the recently opened Louis’ Kosher Deli is the first entirely kosher option on Upper Campus. However, one accommodation for the kosher population seems rather excessive and comes at a social cost to the community at large.

According to Jay DeGioia, the regional district manager of Sodexo on campus, “It has been a long standing policy, and that during the bidding process it was clear, that not allowing pork or shellfish to be served in the dining halls would be part of the new contract.”

Regarding the supposed origin of this policy, Senior Vice President for Communications Ellen de Graffenreid stated, “It is part of our heritage as a Jewish-sponsored institution. It’s consistent with other university policies that honor our heritage alongside our great diversity.”

However, this supposed long-standing policy of the University seems perplexing as both shellfish and pork products were

Allow shellfish and pork served by Aramark in campus dining halls as recently as last year. This board wonders if—and if so why—Aramark was granted permission to serve those food products. Most puzzling is why Sodexo was not granted that same authorization to serve the food group in question.

On a more fundamental level, this board questions the legitimacy of this policy. We are a school that is proud of our diversity and the acceptance of each individual’s lifestyle. Why then does the University force a particular dietary restriction of a certain segment of its student body upon the rest? Even from a religious perspective, it is dubious at best as to why this restriction needs to be extended to the greater community.

Our Brandeisian values are not defined by the type of food we eat; rather, they are personified in the character of our community. The Jewish roots and values that Brandeis holds so dear are based in social justice, the betterment of the world and the respect of all. Restricting a certain food group has absolutely nothing to do with the reflection of those Jewish values.

Just as those students with certain dietary restrictions should be accommodated, so should the rest of the community not be restricted in their food choice.

Morris Didia ’14 is a member of the Brandeis Conservative Libertarian Union.

Jesse Hart ’14 Other states will certainly follow these models, which are slightly different, but will tailor them to their own needs for politically pragmatic purposes. In Washington, 55 percent of revenues from the sale of marijuana will go to health care costs, and another 25 percent will go to drug abuse treatment and education. As for Colorado, the first 40 million dollars raised annually will go to a public school fund. Insofar as: “should other states follow?” the financial report will speak for itself. The amount of money saved on police and prisons, in addition to the amount of money raised through revenues and tourism (because they made sure to tax the hell out of it), will make recreational legalization the only rational choice for state legislatures scrambling to pay for healthcare, welfare, and schools. Besides, the war on drugs hasn’t stopped anyone from getting high anyway.

Jesse Hart ’14 is the president of Bad Grammer and a member of Students for a Democratic Society.

Mark Gimelstein ’17 The legalization of marijuana in both Colorado and Washington has created an opportunity to correct the unintended consequences perpetuated by the war on drugs. Although the usage of marijuana should still be discouraged through spreading information on its adverse effects, the benefits of legalization greatly outweigh the costs. The black market, whose survival often rests on the work of violent Mexican drug cartels, will slowly disappear as the supply of legal marijuana increases and prices fall. This will mean fewer deaths along the Southwestern border. Moreover, legalization directly benefits the millions of nonviolent drug users who are currently in our prison systems.

Instead of being sentenced to mandatory minimums and becoming hardened criminals, users will instead have an opportunity to rehabilitate themselves and gain employment. Although drug use should be discouraged, legalizing marijuana helps solve moral quagmires that the war on drugs developed.

Mark Gimelstein ’17 intends to be a Business major.

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READER COMMENTARY Acknowledge full history of papacy To the Editor: In response to your article “Pope is a model for religious and non-religious alike” (Jan. 14): Firstly, labeling the Catholic Church as “synonymous with discrimination and closed-mindedness” is not in line with the University’s penchant for tolerance. But since, as historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. said, anti-Catholicism is “the deepest bias in the history of the American people,” it is perfectly fine to lambast the Catholic Church in the eyes of many people, even among my friends and colleagues. It is not fine, but wrong.

Secondly, despite the American media’s deification of Pope Francis, he was not the first nor only pope to “live by the ideas he preaches.” By claiming this, one neglects the power of Google, where numerous examples of previous popes doing so exist.

Thirdly, Francis’s papal predecessors have also lambasted “trickle-down economics theories as “a new tyranny.” In the past, the Church has also condoned Marxism and excessive capitalism. The Church cannot and should not exist on the American political spectrum, since it is an international organization, and not solely an American one.

Finally, under Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Church did not become “overly focused on marriage and abortion.” Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI arguably also heightened the Church’s image. He expanded liturgical tradition when progressive bishops prevented it being done, via his moto proprio Summorum Pontificum in 2007. He opened the Church to Anglicans in 2009, allowing for mass conversion. Yet the American media still compares him to Lord Sith. Maybe one should truly look at history as a whole before judging the actions of a man.

With much appreciation and respect, Joe Lanoie —Joe Lanoie ’15

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Overturning net neutrality is a mistake Max

Moran The Bottom Bunk

For every great communication technology, there have been people who control it. Newspapers like the Justice rely on editors to judge which stories should be featured in each issue, and determine how much space each story earns.

Radio is similarly edited for time and focus, as are television and film. Engaging with this media is engaging with what someone else has decided is most worthy of your attention, and more and more frequently, what someone else thinks you will buy.

In great part, this is what has made the Internet such a revolutionary space. It is a media of the most massive type, accessible to anyone with a modem, and is completely created and distributed by the people. Online, you choose what to read about, watch, listen to or interact with. The web has become a bastion of free speech, connecting like-minded people across the globe, and has served as a truly new method for the human race to interrelate.

All of that, though, is now subject to change.

Last Tuesday, the District of Columbia’s Court of Appeals struck down a Federal Communications Commission law put in place in 2010 commonly known as the Open Internet Order. The Open Internet Order contained the last 10 years of laws defending a practice known as net neutrality, which is the idea that Internet service providers—the Verizons, AT&Ts and Comcasts of the world—must give all websites equal treatment. Netflix has to load as fast as Hulu, regardless of which Comcast has signed a deal.

Verizon argued in court that this restriction overstepped the FCC’s boundaries, citing that the FCC had previously classified Internet service as different from phone service, which is similarly unregulated. The court found the argument convincing. Now that net neutrality has been struck down, however, there is nothing that

stands in the way of companies artificially capping how much bandwidth a given website will receive.

To translate the implications of this court ruling into English, your Internet provider now has the right to determine how fast a given website will load on your computer. If it is a site that has paid its dues to the provider, the site will load as fast as it did before the ruling, if not faster. If it is a site that the provider holds a grudge against, or simply a site that the provider has no reason to care about, speeds can become as sluggish as the provider desires. All of this is meant to determine a specific group—or rather, groups—as the ones “in charge” of the Internet: the ISPs, the people who you have to pay to get access.

While it remains unclear what exactly ISPs will do with their newfound power, the open exchange of ideas that made the net so revolutionary is now thrown into a flux. Many experts and analysts predict that the Internet’s next stage will resemble a media outlet which most ISP’s have been providing for decades, and which they are much more familiar controlling: television.

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This decision ... is further proof that companies, not the people, are the ones in control of free speech.

A user who likes to access social networking sites will need to pay for the social network package if they want to access the network in a reasonable amount of time. Those who like getting news online will need to buy the news package, online film watchers will need the movie package, and so on in ever more specific groupings designed to monetize a space that once valued independence and freedom above all other qualities.

Net neutrality had many flaws, one of the most public being that it made pirating and illegally uploading intellectual property commonplace.

This is an issue that still must be addressed, but restriction of the free flow of ideas, confining Internet users to the few approved websites that they can afford, is not a solution that allows this network to be the revolutionary innovation it is supposed to be.

Many philosophers and skeptics say that the Internet’s constant connections have destroyed our ability to focus on topics, as we would rather click through to the next idea than study the one we were on long enough to really understand.

Would a model like television, that most timewasting of vices, improve our ability to focus?

Would boxing up the sites that do provide indepth analysis on any given idea into their own package allow for any thoughtful analysis, when users can instead spend their hard-earned cash on other distractions?

The ones with the most to lose after this decision, though, are the start-ups, the group of friends in a dingy apartment trying to turn their idea into a cool, new website. Sites used to be able to be pet projects, something which didn’t have to pay the bills but was a purely creative expression. Web designers may now have to struggle with a question that artists of other bents—filmmakers, novelists—have fought with for years: whether to “sell out” and put their talents toward filling the pockets of their providers. Sites that people build for fun will now no longer be seen: why would one spend their time and money on a site that doesn’t have a point? This stagnates the growth of the web as a creative space and society, and all in the name of making rich corporations a bit richer.

One of the most amazing things about the Internet has always been that it cannot be defined: it constantly reinvents itself, and serves a number of purposes to every one of the millions that use it daily. It provides news, education and culture and is a truly unrestricted space for creativity. It constantly begs the user to click through to another site, another idea and another corner of the world that before they knew nothing about.

Now, the wealth of knowledge the Internet provides will be limited by a very real, very concrete factor: your bank account. This decision marks a tremendous step backward, and is further proof that companies, not the people, are the ones in control of free speech.

To combat new e-cigarettes, inform public about smoking facts

By Jennie Bromberg JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

In 1964, the surgeon general issued a report concluding for the first time that smoking can cause lung cancer. Since then, the list of health issues correlated to smoking has only grown, and according to the New York Times last Friday, new scientific evidence has caused that list to grow even more. In addition to lung cancer and heart disease, smoking is now also scientifically linked to be a causing factor in some cases of diabetes, colorectal and liver cancers, erectile dysfunction, ectopic pregnancy, vision loss, tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, impaired immune function and cleft palates in children born to women who smoke during pregnancy. Although smoking itself does not always cause these diseases, the report shows that some patients would not have had these diseases had they not smoked.

With the list of diseases directly linked to smoking continuing to grow for the past 50 years, why do people still smoke? It is an expensive habit that deteriorates health and is linked to diseases that can be fatal. And while there are more informative warning labels on cigarette packs and higher taxes on tobacco products, about 18 percent of the population still continues to smoke, according to The New York Times. Additionally, according to the report, about 31 percent of 18 to 25 year olds smoke, with a higher prevalence among males.

With this young-adult demographic affected, colleges should be taking more initiative to combat smoking on campus. There should be smokefree campuses and more on-campus resources to help those who smoke to quit.

According to the report, smoking cigarettes costs the United States between $289 billion and $333 billion a year in health care and lost productivity in the job market due to problems associated with smoking. With numbers so high, something clearly needs to be done to combat the financial and health defects caused by smoking.

But the efforts with labeling the cigarette packs with warnings and hiking up the taxes are not enough.

The New York Times article points out that

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the report calls for “more vigorous tobaccocontrol efforts,” including driving up taxes that would bring a pack of cigarettes to up to $10 on average. But despite the measures being taken, addicts will continue to smoke even if it means shelling out a few extra dollars. While increasing the price a bit may help, more needs to be done to ensure that people do not begin to smoke in the first place. By refocusing our efforts on increased access to resources to helping people stop smoking, especially to populations that have higher smoking rates, we can stop the problem at its source and prevent would-be smokers from ever having to worry about preventable health issues.

One of the major problems with smoking is that it not only affects the individual, but also affects the people around them through secondhand smoke. While smoking can be banned from public places, people are still free to do it in their own homes, regardless of whether they are living alone, with other adults or even with children.

Secondhand smoke is still tremendously dangerous: it puts others at risk for a long list of health consequences, which is especially unfair to children living with adults who smoke. Secondhand smoke has been linked to causing stroke, lung cancer and coronary heart disease in adults.

In children, secondhand smoke is linked to middle ear disease, impaired lung function, lower respiratory illness and sudden infant death syndrome. Educating smokers on these dangers, especially pregnant women and mothers, is critical to having a better-informed, healthier society.

One growing fad that is not helping the United States’ tobacco problem is electronic cigarettes.

With a target audience of cigarette smokers, ecigarettes emit a vapor rather than the smoke you would see from a cigarette. But the e-cigarettes may come with a range of new problems.

E-cigarettes are the same shape as traditional cigarettes, but the difference is that they are battery-powered devices that use heat to vaporize a nicotine solution. In place of the secondhand smoke seen coming off of a traditional cigarette, e-cigarettes emit a vapor.

E-cigarettes have yet to undergo the same kind of studies that normal cigarettes have been through in the past 50 years. They claim to be a

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safer way of smoking, yet there is not currently any evidence to support that. According to a New York Times article published in the fall, not only is little known about the harmful effects of e-cigarettes on those who use them, but also little is known about the effects that the second-hand vapor has on those around the e-cigarette users.

E-cigarettes are not a solution to the cigarettesmoking problem in the United States. Rather than providing incentive to stop, they might become a bridge into smoking. E-cigarettes come in fruity flavors that may appeal to a younger audience and may get them hooked on this new way of smoking.

If one method of smoking tobacco becomes popular and “cool,” what is stopping traditional cigarettes from becoming okay? What if a person loses their e-cigarette and needs a temporary fix?

Do they then turn to regular cigarettes?

Because of the way in which the e-cigarettes are marketed and the uncertainty about how they affect health, there needs to be more control over

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their selling and distribution. Until scientifically proven to have minimal health consequences, ecigarette smokers should follow the same rules as traditional cigarette smokers, such as not being allowed to smoke in non-smoking areas.

E-cigarettes might provide a gateway into regular cigarettes, exacerbating the already existent problems that are prevalent today. As more and more research is done, new consequences of smoking appear. Maybe the new e-cigarettes are not as bad as the old ones, but they still may pose serious health risks. And, more importantly, they are trying to make smoking into a trend.

People want to do the “in” thing, and creating a new smoking culture is highly dangerous because it could bring back cigarettes.

Making smoking more appealing in any way, shape or form only encourages the next generation to engage in unhealthy habits. Rather than spending the money on health care or e-cigarettes, it is better to spend it on quitting and keeping the air clean for all those around.

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American reproductive health rights must not be lost Catherine

Rosch cynical idealist

The Population Institute, an education and health nonprofit group, recently released its annual report on the state of women’s reproductive health in the United States as a whole and on a state-by-state basis.

Reproductive health is considered the ability of people to make safe and informed decisions in regard to sex and to have a safe sex life. Ratings were based on numbers of unwanted pregnancies and access to certain prenatal services. California had the highest rating, while Mississippi scored the lowest. Massachusetts was solidly in the middle, with a C grade. Overall, the United States received a C- for women’s access to reproductive health. I don’t think any Brandeis student would consider a C- to be an acceptable grade.

According to the report, nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned and there is little chance of that number falling.

Due to a slew of laws at the state level meant to restrict abortion access by either limiting how late in a pregnancy a woman can abort, or by requiring clinics to have certain building requirements and hospital admitting privileges, the number of clinics and other resources that provide reproductive health services to women have drastically fallen.

The divisive issue of abortion has shut down essential services for all women.

Women’s health services provide more than abortions. Most of these clinics and health centers offer birth control, family planning options and life-saving services like mammograms, sexually transmitted infection testing and pelvic exams for low-income women who otherwise would not have anywhere else to turn. While obstetricians and gynecologists are available for some of these services, they often are at a much higher cost.

For example, in Texas, a measure that was supposed to restrict abortion access had such stringent requirements for how big clinic halls had to be or what sort of admitting privileges hospitals had to allow that all but five women’s health clinics that offer reproductive services in the state are at risk for closure.

Because Texas is a large state, the second largest behind Alaska, some women in rural parts of the state would have to drive for hours to get essential medical services at an affordable price.

I find it more than a little troubling that, in the name of protecting life, there are those who seemingly

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do not have any problems with shutting down resources that help women stay healthy.

There is the argument that since some women’s health clinics and services also provide abortions, they should be shut down. The same argument has been used to give pharmacists the right to refuse women birth control or the Plan B birth control pill for religious reasons. Birth control and Plan B help make sure that women have control over their bodies and are not at risk for unwanted pregnancy.

Birth control is not a form of abortion, and should not be treated as such. For many women, birth control offers relief from heavy periods and terrible cramps. It is abhorrent that there are those who think that their own religious preferences

should trump a woman’s health needs.

The problem of women’s reproductive health and the United States’ relative failings go beyond clinics that offer abortions and other services getting shut down.

Look at the issue of teen pregnancy. The teen birth rate in the United States is currently around 50 births per 1000 according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The Center for Disease Control reports that nearly one in 10 new mothers in the United Statews is a teenager.

The United States has a higher rate of teen pregnancy than developing countries such as Croatia (32 births out of 1000), Romania (40 births out of 1000) and Bulgaria (47 births out of 1000).

When compared to countries that

have a similar gross domestic product, the United States has a teen birth rate that is nearly eight times higher.

Among developed countries, the United States has among the highest rates of maternal mortality, premature births and infant mortality, according to United Nations data.

We spend more money per capita on health care than any other country in the world, and yet our health services are failing, especially in the realm of reproductive health. While the Affordable Care Act included language and provisions to get rid of disparities in treatment costs for men and women and limited co-pays on birth control, that does not mean women have easier access to care.

It is shameful that this is happening in the United States, and I find

it almost hypocritical. We use issues of women’s health and societal treatment as justification for going to war in Afghanistan, and for having a military presence in other countries.

The State Department even has a page of quotes about the treatment of Afghani women on their website to give justification for the war. How can we decry these countries for their treatment of women when we are also failing our women?

The United States claims to be leading the way for women but we are not. Look at the income gap, the lack of paid family leave and rape culture. If we want to be the leaders for women, we need to make our country better for women. Work needs to be done, and one of the places we can start is in the realm of health care.

Murder committed in prison is still an unjust tragedy Kahlil

Oppenheimer unedited justice

John J. Geoghan was a Catholic priest who molested nearly 150 boys over the course of 30 years. He was exiled from the Roman Catholic Church in 1998 in the face of numerous allegations, and was found guilty of indecent assault and battery in 2002 when a college student testified that he had been molested

by Geoghan in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991.

Because he was only found guilty of the one charge, Geoghan was sentenced to nine to 10 years in prison.

On Feb. 23, 2004, Geoghan was murdered in his cell by Joseph L. Druce.

“Justice” was served.

Druce was serving a life-withoutparole sentence for a 1998 murder.

He had been picked up as a hitchhiker by 51-year-old George Rollo.

After realizing Rollo was gay, Druce attacked him, stuffed him in the trunk of his own car, drove him to a wooded area and strangled him.

Druce is a reputed member of the Aryan Nations neo-Nazi group.

Geoghan’s murder had been meticulously planned months in advance. At 11:48 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2004, all 22 cells on the block were opened for prisoners to return food trays to a common area. There were supposed to be two correctional officers on guard by the tray return area, but one of them was pulled off to escort another inmate to the nurse’s station.

Druce snuck into Geoghan’s cell and used a book, nail clipper, and toothbrush to jam the cell door so that it could not be opened electronically.

He then gagged Geoghan, threw him to the ground, repeatedly stomped on him and jumped on him from the bed, then strangled him with a pair of socks. Guards weren’t able to get the door open for seven to eight minutes.

Geoghan was pronounced dead at 1:17 p.m. with the cause of death as

ligature strangulation, blunt chest trauma, broken ribs and a punctured lung.

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Everyone has certain inalienable human rights. We as a people need to recognize that.

While there’s no direct evidence to suggest that the prison facilitated the murder, many questions remain unanswered.

Was it really coincidental that Geoghan was kept on the same block as Joseph Druce, a known homophobe who was serving a life sentence for strangling a homosexual man?

Was it really coincidental that

only one correctional officer was on guard at the time?

Was it really coincidental that the guards were unable to intervene for seven to eight minutes? I’m not suggesting a systemic conspiracy, but it’s no hidden fact that pedophiles and rapists are not treated well in prisons.

Was Druce a lone vigilante or a soldier? And if the latter, who issued his orders?

Regardless of how it was done, the reaction to the murder was almost as atrocious as the act itself.

One of Geoghan’s victims, Michael Linscott, said of the murder, “I thought about the victims that are still here that he would have to face had he lived. … In my opinion, he got off the easy way.”

Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney for more than 200 alleged victims of Geoghan, added, “Many victims are disappointed. … They wish Father John Geoghan had time to be in prison to reflect.”

While this sentiment is understandable, and could even be sympathized with, it is not just. Geoghan’s murder was not the righteous end

to his story, but not because it was easier than life in prison.

Geoghan molested children. But if you, me or the state issues an execution, directly or indirectly, and feels no remorse, we’re no better than Druce.

Some see Geoghan’s murder as justice—he was a pedophile, so he deserved it. Some see it as injustice that Druce wasn’t murdered—he was a murdering homophobe, so he deserved it.

But both of those views are oversimplified. There are no heroes or villains, no winners or losers, only tragedy.

Killing Geoghan did not take away what he did to the countless boys. Killing Druce would not bring back George Rollo or even John J. Geoghan.

We as a people should not cheer on murder—we should vehemently protest it. We as a people should not sit silent to the atrocities of our brothers in jail—we should scream in their defense.

Everyone has certain unalienable human rights. We as a people need to recognize that.

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STRAIGHT AWAY: Brian Luk ’16 races during one of his three victories in a home meet versus Trinity College on Saturday.

SWIMMING: Judges paced by quick times in races at home “Moreover, her attitude toward swimming more events than usual is very positive. We are very proud of her performance, and glad to have her as a teammate.”

Fabian continued his strong start to the season, winning in both the 1,000 and 500-yard freestyle races. He clinched a victory in both races over Trinity freshman Tom McNamara, finishing the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:08.46 and the 500-yard freestyle in 5:03.33.

Fabian out-swam McNamara by 39 seconds in the 1,000-yard freestyle and established a 10-second lead in the 500-yard freestyle.

Luk, who seemed to thrive with the support of a home crowd, won all three events in which he participated, including the 50-yard freestyle,

100-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle.

“I think the atmosphere was amazing,” he explained. “Competing at home feels great as we are familiar with the pool, specifically the walls and blocks.”

In addition to impressively picking up three victories, Luk out-paced the competition by at least 1.5 seconds in all of his events.

Luk won the 50-yard freestyle race in 22.46 seconds, the 100-yard freestyle in 48.71 seconds and the 200yard freestyle in 1:49.06.

Edan Zitelny ’17 impressed the competition by finishing first in the men’s 200-yard backstroke. Zitelny clinched the victory by a slim margin of only .48 seconds over the second-place finisher.

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MBBALL: Squad fails to respond to Friday’s loss against WashU

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in this swimming season—the University Athletic Association Championships hosted by Emory University in Atlanta in February—Luk noted the team is focusing on improving and attaining a long soughtafter goal.

“The team's ultimate goal is doing well [at] the UAA championship meet,” he stated.

He additionally said that Saturday’s meet against the Bantams proved to be another solid step toward team-wide success at the upcoming Championships. “[It’s] great to get our minds to racing and preparing for the big meet later,” he added.

Both teams will jump back in the pool in the Joseph M. Linsey Sports Center after a two-week hiatus to host local rival Clark University on Feb. 1 at 1 p.m.

points, but also turned the ball over two times in the half.

Brandeis was successful on the offensive side in the second half, but yet, they were unable to stop the Bears’ offense, third-best in UAA play. The Judges outscored WashU 50-49 in the half but it was not enough to overtake the hosts.

Moton led the way with 18 second-half points and a game-high 27 overall. However, no other member of the Judges was able to get into double-digits in the scoring column. Retos and guard Ruben Kanya ’14 each came within one basket of double-digits, both contributing eight points.

The bench added 26 points as coach Brian Meehan continued to rely heavily on the reserves.

Klimek finished with 25 points for the Bears on 10-for-18 shooting and five-for-10 from the line.

Vilmont stressed the importance of the Judges’ bench to their overall success, and the strength it provides to the team.

Meehan has shown throughout the season a willingness to assign

players to either the starting five or the bench depending on the game or situation.

“It’s very important to have a strong bench, because it gives confidence to the team,” Vilmont said.

“When [members of the bench] get on the court it’s normal for them to be there instead of coming off the bench cold.”

The Judges were out-rebounded 37-30 and the Bears went to the line 35 times, some trends that the Judges need to reverse in order to make a run in the UAA. Even with the pair of losses, Vilmont remarked that the Judges’ ability to keep the games within striking-distance will help them moving forward.

“It gives everyone confidence, because now we know we can keep up with a top-10 team, he said. “It comes down to little things, turnovers and free throws, but these games show we can beat them.”

Brandeis returns home to face the University of Rochester on Friday night at 8 p.m. for HOOPcoming and then host Emory University on Sunday for Alumni Family Basketball Day at 12 p.m.

FENCING BRIEF Fencers travel for competition This past weekend several Brandeis fencers had the opportunity to go to Virginia Beach, Va. for the January edition of the North American Cup, an event hosted by USA Fencing. Six fencers represented Brandeis at the event.

The men’s side sent three fencers, one for each weapon type as Julian Cardillo ’14 competed on foil, Adam Mandel ’15 was sent for saber and Tom Hearne ’16 rounded out the men’s squad on épée. The women’s side featured two foilists for the Judges, with Annette Kim ’16 and Caroline Mattos ’16 competing alongside foilist Vikki Nunley ’14 for the Judges.

The tournament, which lasted from Thursday to Monday, saw all of the Judges except Nunley compete before the final day, and each member of the team fought to a spot in the middle of the pack.

Cardillo, Mandel and Hearne finished in 44th, 99th and 84th in their respective weapons, while Mattos

and Kim finished 41st and 99th, respectively, in the Junior Women's Foil event.

The tournament featured a very difficult field throughout, so Mattos’s and Cardillo’s showings were particularly impressive, as Cardillo lost in the round of 32 by a final score of 15-11 and Mattos fell in the round of 64 by a score of 15-5 to the eventual Bronze medalist, Sabrina Massialas—a member of the 2013 USA Cadet Women’s Foil team.

Both the men’s and women’s teams are back in action in the upcoming weeks.

The teams travel to Boston College next weekend in a Northeast Conference and then again the following weekend when they host the Eric Sollee Invitational at Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.

The women’s team will also host Wellesley College tomorrow in Gosman at 7:00 p.m.

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TRACK AND FIELD

jUDGES BY THE NUMBERS Men’s BASKETBALL UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

Points Per Game

Not including Monday’s games UAA Conference

W L W WashU 3 0 12 Emory 2 1 10 Carnegie 2 1 9 Chicago 2 1 9 NYU 1 2 11 Case 1 2 9 Rochester 1 2 7 JUDGES 0 3 8

UPCOMING GAMES: Friday vs. Rochester Sunday vs. Emory Fri., Jan. 31 at Case

Gabe Moton ’14 leads scorers with 17.4 points per game.

Player PPG Gabe Moton 17.4 Ben Bartoldus 12.9 Derek Retos 9.5 Alex Stoyle 8.5

Overall L Pct. 2 .857 4 .714 5 .643 5 .643 3 .786 5 .643 Rebounds Per Game 7 .500 Gabe Moton ’14 leads the team with 6.6 rebounds per game.

6 .571 Player RPG Gabe Moton 6.6 Ben Bartoldus 4.2 Alex Stoyle 4.0 Robinson Vilmont 3.8

WOMen’s basketball UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

Not including Monday’s games UAA Conference

W L W Emory 3 0 14 WashU 3 0 13 NYU 2 1 13 Carnegie 1 2 10 Case 1 2 7 Chicago 1 2 7 Rochester 1 2 7 JUDGES 0 3 6

Points Per Game

Overall L Pct. 0 .1000 1 .929 1 .929 4 .714 7 .500 7 .500 7 .500 8 .429

UPCOMING GAMES: Friday vs. Rochester Sunday vs. Emory Fri., Jan. 31 at Case

Niki Laskaris ’16 leads the team with 13.5 points per game.

Player PPG Niki Laskaris 13.5 Nicolina Vitale 11.0 Kasey Dean 9.8 Maria Jackson 8.1

Rebounds Per Game Nicolina Vitale ’14 leads with 5.3 rebounds per game.

Player RPG Nicolina Vitale 5.3 Paris Hodges 4.6 Maria Jackson 4.6 Angela Miller 4.4

FENCING Results from the Brandeis Invitational held on Dec. 8.

TOP PERFORMERS (Men’s)

TOP PERFORMERS (Women’s)

SABER Adam Mandel

RECORD 13 wins

SABER RECORD Annabel Sharahy 8 wins

ÉPÉE Tom Hearne

RECORD 7 wins

ÉPÉE Sonya Glickman

RECORD 9 wins

FOIL Julian Cardillo

RECORD 7 wins

FOIL Caroline Mattos

RECORD 9 wins

The team sent fencers to the USA Fencing North American Cup held from Jan. 17-20. The women’s team will host Wellesley College tomorrow and both teams will travel to the Northeast Conference Meet #2 on Saturday.

TRACK AND FIELD Results from the Greater Boston Track Club Invitational on Jan. 19.

RUNNER TIME Quinton Hoey 4:35.61 Daniel Leon 4:38.42 Matt Doran 4:41.61

Track and Field squads compete at local event ■ The men’s and women’s teams both turned in solid days at the Greater Boston Track Club Invitational.

By ELAN KANE Justice Staff writer

EDITOR’S NOTE:

TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)

JON EDELSTEIN/Justice File Photo

TO THE FINISH: Vincent Asante ’14 (right), who took second in the 200-meter dash on Saturday, leads a race last December.

TOP FINISHERS (Women’s) RUNNER TIME Victoria Sanford 5:06.15 Maddie Dolins 5:18.01 Kelsey Whitaker 5:22.65

UPCOMING MEETS:

Saturday at the Terrier Invitational at Boston University Feb. 1 at the Tufts Stampede at Tufts University Feb. 7 at the Valentine Classic at Boston University

Over 25 athletes from the men’s and women’s track and field team participated in their third race of the season on Sunday at the Greater Boston Track Club Invitational hosted at Harvard University. Several competitors finished at the top of their events in the critical regional meet.

Vincent Asante ’14—who last week qualified for the New England Division III Championships with a third-place finish at the Dartmouth Relays—led the squad with another third-place finish in the men’s 60-meter dash finals, finishing the race at 7.03 seconds, just one-tenth of a second behind second place. He also turned in a second-place finish in the men’s 200-meter dash invitational with a time of 42.91 seconds.

Nick Wactor ’17 raced well for the Judges, finishing ninth in the men’s 400-meter dash, covering the course in 54.34. Mohamed Sidique

’15 finished third in the 600-meter run with a time of one minute, 29.48 seconds.

Sidique was proud of the performance he turned in for the day, as he added an 11th place finish in the men’s long jump.

“Personally, I’m coming back from injury so it’s a building block,” he said. “My performance wasn’t bad from where I started, so I’m pretty satisfied with it as a building block.”

Wactor also placed 13th in the 200-meter dash as well with a time of 24.11 seconds. Adam Berger ’16 placed 22nd, Makalani Mack ’16 placed 35th and Mark Franklin ’17 finished one spot, and half a step, behind Mack.

Sidique stressed the importance racers placed on their coaches’ advice during the day’s races. “[We didn’t] try to overdo anything, just listen to the coaches,” he said. “They know what they’re doing so we just tried to be calm, stay focused and stay motivaed.”

Omar Scruggs ’17 placed eighth in the men’s 800-meter run invitational with a time of 1:58.60 in the finals. Matt Doran ’17 took 23rd in the men’s one-mile run.

Sidique credited the successes on the day to the overall atmosphere created by fellow team members.

“I was very happy by the way the team reacted to everyone else, they were very supportive and there for each other,” he explained. “If someone had an event, multiple people were there for support, and it brought a great vibe. The team is coming together and moving forward in a very positive direction.

We’re working towards the area where we’re one as a team.”

On the women’s side, the Judges were led by strong performances in the one-mile run.

Victoria Sanford ’14, Maddie Dolins ’17 and Kelsey Whitaker ’16 turned in seventh, 12th and 13th place finishes, respectively, in the race. Sanford finished in just over five minutes, clocking in at 5:05.58.

Ashley Hebard ’17 took 28th in the women’s 200-meter dash while Ashley Piccirillo-Horan ’17 also delivered a strong performance, finishing fifth in the women’s 800-meter run invitational in 2:24.47.

Alyssa Fenenbock ’15 took 15th in the women’s shot put, Ashley Klein ’16 earned 17th and Selena Livas ’17 followed in 18th place.

Both squads will compete next weekend at the Terrier Invitational at Boston University.

—Editor’s note: Ashley Hebard ’17 is a layout staff member of the Justice.

Boston Bruins BRIEF Boston Bruins fall in high-scoring divisional matchup against visiting Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday The Boston Bruins, in a game filled with action around the net, fell to the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 last Tuesday. “[We had] too many breakdowns,” said center Patrice Bergeron.

“But also I think we are forcing plays that we shouldn’t and sometimes we’re not in sync, we’re not forcing where all guys go as a whole and together. And obviously, when there’s only one guy going, that opens up too many lanes and they’re going to eat you alive if you do that, then if you don’t, if you aren’t on the same page.”

After left winger Brad Marchand hit the post within 40 seconds, right winger Jarome Iginla capped a frantic opening with a shot on net that Maple Leafs goalkeeper Jonathan Bernier did well to save.

With the Bruins on the penaltykill, Marchand delivered the first goal of the night just moments later. Right winger Reilly Smith maneuvered his way into the middle of the ice and slammed a shot right at Bernier. While Bernier had denied Marchand earlier in the game, he was powerless to stop the left wing’s rebound that staked Boston to a 1-0 lead just three minutes, 38 seconds into the game.

If the Bruins had any ideas about cruising to an easy win, these were quickly dispelled. In similar fashion to the first goal of the game, the Maple Leafs capitalized on a rebound just 2:14 after the opening tally. Goalkeeper Tuukka Rask initially fought off a slap shot from defenseman Carl Gunnarsson, but fortunately for Toronto, center Ty-

ler Bozak was on the doorstep to knock home the second effort. With less than six minutes on the clock, the game was knotted at 1-1.

Just over 10 minutes in, the Bruins retook the lead amid controversial circumstances. After defenseman Zdeno Chara had his shot tipped over by Bernier, Bergeron corralled the puck behind the net and—despite being behind the goalpost—wrapped his stick around the front of the net and banked it off of Bernier’s pads.

Though Bernier protested that the puck had gone in the side of the net, television replays contradicted the goalie’s account and the Bruins had a 2-1 advantage.

Once again, though, the Maple Leafs knotted the game up. With Rask out of position, the puck fell

kindly for Bozak, who made no mistake in making it 2-2 with 7:13 left in the period.

With the first period over at 2-2, Toronto grabbed another goal to take the lead midway through the second period. Defenseman Jake Gardiner deflected the puck beyond Rask for a 3-2 advantage for the Maple Leafs at the 7:09 mark.

Exactly a minute into the third period, things got worse for the Bruins. Left winger James van Riemsdyk gained the puck on the right side of the ice. He then took advantage of the ample space that the Bruins afforded him and ripped a right-handed shot past Rask to give his team a seemingly unassailable two-goal cushion.

Just when all hope looked lost for Boston, the home team received a

lifeline with 10:25 left in regulation.

Left winger Daniel Paille fed center Gregory Campbell, who dished it past Reimer to cut the deficit to 4-3.

Despite pulling Rask and hammering a number of shots on net in the final two minutes—Boston ended the night with 41 shots on net— the Bruins were unable to solve Toronto’s defense and left the ice with a defeat.

After downing the Dallas Stars 4-2 on Thursday night and falling to the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday afternoon, Boston welcomed the Los Angeles Kings to town last night, and used a pair of goals by Marchand to win 3-2. The Bruins return to action on Saturday in a road match against the Philadelphia Flyers.

— Henry Loughlin

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WEEKEND WARRIORS The Track and Field teams competed at the Greater Boston Track Club Invitational hosted by Harvard University, p. 15.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Waltham, Mass.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

IN THE PAINT

Squads win races at home meeting ■ The men’s and women’s

swimming and diving teams both lost to visiting Trinity College on Saturday amid wins for individual racers.

By Abigail Rothstein JUSTICE contributing WRITER

In the first meet of 2014 on Saturday, the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams hosted the Trinity College Bantams at the pool in the Joseph M. Linsey Sports Center. Although the Judges shined on the individual level with several victories from Brian Luk ’16 and Max Fabian ’15, they failed to pull off the overall win.

With an eight-man team, the men only lost by 33 points (139-106) to

Trinity’s squad of 17 swimmers.

Their female counterparts, likewise, lost 138-71 to the Bantams.

Joanna Murphy ’17 led the way for the Judges, garnering two wins on the afternoon. She surged past the competition in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10 minutes and 50.78 seconds, touching the wall a full 22 seconds ahead of the secondplace competitor.

In addition to her victory in the 1000-yard freestyle, Murphy eked out a victory in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:02.02—slimly taking first by 15 hundredths of a second.

Luk spoke fondly of Murphy as one of the newest, and brightest, additions to the team.

“I think she did an amazing job as she swam in almost all of the events and won a number of them,” Luk commented.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Judges offense unable to keep up in contests ■ The women fell in both of

their weekend road games, losing to WashU on Friday and Chicago on Sunday.

By Daniel kanovich JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

JOSHUA LINTON/Justice File Photo

SOFT TOUCH: Ishmael Kalilou ’15 (center), who had 11 points at the University of Chicago on Sunday, scores at home in November.

Midwest trip results in multiple losses for team ■ The squad lost to UAA

opponents WashU and Chicago in a weekend road trip to St. Louis and Chicago, faling to 8-6 overall.

By jacob moskowitz JUSTICE Senior WRITER

The men’s basketball team this weekend lost by just 10 points in two different high-scoring University Athletic Association contests throughout the Midwest. On Friday, the team fell to No. 7 Washington University in St. Louis, 82-72, and on Sunday, they suffered the same fate in an 85-75 loss to the University of Chicago. With the defeats, the Judges fall to 8-6 on the season and 0-3 in UAA competition.

In Sunday’s game versus Chicago, the men were unable to get anything going in the first half, and from there, the team was never able to make up the lost ground. Guard Ben Bartoldus ’14 led the Judges with seven first-half points, and the bench, with 15 points, contributed just less than half of the scor-

ing output in the first half. As a team, the Judges shot 13 for 26—50 percent from the field—in the first half but only attempted eight threepoint shots.

The Maroons took a 21-20 lead midway through the first half and never looked back, holding the lead the rest of the way. They took a 3931 lead into halftime, and despite a few small runs from the Judges, Chicago held on for the victory.

Guard Derek Retos ’14 led the Judges with 12 points on four-fornine shooting from beyond the three-point arc. Forwards Ishmael Kalilou ’15 and Alex Stoyle ’14, as well as guard Gabe Moton ’14, all contributed double-digit scoring for Brandeis, most of which came in the second half.

Guard Robinson Vilmont ’17, who added six points and three assists in 13 minutes off the bench, saw room for improvement on the defensive side of the ball for the Judges with the losses.

“It starts off with defense,” he noted about the Judges. “We need to play together. Offensively we can score and we need to put more effort in on the defense.”

The Maroons controlled the

glass, out-rebounding the Judges 35-28 on the afternoon, including seven offensive rebounds in both halves. They also were more aggressive than the Judges, reaching the free throw line 22 more times than Brandeis’ shooters did. They also connected on 11 more free throws than the Judges, sparking the 10-point victory.

On Friday, likewise, the Judges were unable to get things going early in the contest. Brandeis managed to take a 15-13 lead on a Moton layup with 10 minutes, 36 seconds left in the first half—their first lead of the day. From that point, though, WashU went on a 14-0 run over the next six minutes to grab a 27-15 lead over the Judges.

Brandeis was able to keep the lead within reach at the end of the first half, and after a 6-3 run over the final four minutes, the squad cut the deficit to 11 points.

Brandeis trailed 33-22 at the half, led by Moton’s nine firsthalf points. Bears senior forward Chris Klimek led all scorers with 15 points on seven-for-13 shooting at the intermission. Moton added three steals to his team-high nine

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Traveling to the Midwest for a two-game weekend road trip against University Athletic Association opponents, the women’s basketball team was unable to return home victorious in either game.

The Judges fell to the University of Chicago on Sunday, as the team failed to stop the Maroons’ potent offense and fell with a score of 97-81.

Earlier in the weekend, the Judges were bested by fourth-ranked Washington University in St. Louis on Friday, falling 73-49.

The first half of Sunday’s game was a close affair as both teams went back and forth trading baskets until Chicago pulled away with a minute left, using timely three-point shots and good free throw shooting. Guard Kasey Dean ’14 got fouled on a lastsecond three point attempt with just one second left in the first half and made all three of her free-throws to cut the score to 37-30 at the break.

The game started to fall apart for the Judges in the second half as their defense had no answer for the Maroons’ offensive attack, ranked second in UAA scoring offense.

With 16 minutes, 39 seconds left in the game, Chicago sophomore guard Caitlin Moore made a three-point shot to push the lead to 46-36.

The Maroons never led by less than 10 points over the remainder of the game.

While the Maroon offense was firing on all cylinders, the Judges displayed undisciplined defense throughout the game. Brandeis continuously fouled the Bears, a move that stopped the game and allowed Chicago to add points via the freethrow line. Chicago finished the game shooting an impressive 37 of 41 from the line.

Other than the Judges’ lackluster defense, on the stat sheet the game was quite close. Both teams shot an identical 39 percent from the field and the Judges even led in assists

20 to 16. The difference was made on the foul line.

This was a disappointment considering the Judges’ effort on Friday when they faced a much tougher opponent in WashU. The Judges came into WashU Field House to face the Bears and struggled to put together a complete game against the second-ranked team in the nation.

Four turnovers to start the game put the team into a quick 10 point deficit just three minutes into the first half.

The struggles continued as the Judges could not get an offensive rhythm going which forced head coach Carol Simon to call a timeout with 15:19 left in the first half with the team trailing 15-2 and the game seemingly slipping away.

Over the next 10 minutes the Judges came out with a renewed offensive energy led by guard Paris Hodges ’17 and her drives to the basket, as well as strong inside play of the team’s frontcourt.

The women grabbed a 22-21 lead with 5:22 left in the half, and were in position for a major upset down just four points at the half.

In the second-half the Judges’ defense collapsed as WashU stretched its lead with a barrage of threepointers midway through the half.

The story of the game was Brandeis’ lack of offensive cohesion compared to WashU’s excellence on the offensive side of the ball. WashU’s 21 assists outpaced Brandeis’ 11, and their 18 offensive rebounds were eight more than the Judges managed.

For one half and five minutes of the second half it looked as if the Judges would be able to upset the Bears, but the final score was not indicative of the fight the Judges put up, as the squad eventually fell by a score of 73-49.

The Judges look to end this threegame losing streak with two home games coming up during their HOOPcoming weekend.

On Jan. 24th, the Judges host the the University of Rochester and host Alumni Family Basketball Day on Jan. 26th before a game against the Emory University.

The team could not be reached for comment at press time.

JustArts Volume LXVI, Number 16

Your weekly guide to arts, movies, music and everything cultural at Brandeis and beyond

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Waltham, Mass.

UNDERGRADUATE THEATER COLLECTIVE

Preview for upcoming spring 2014 shows, P. 21 INTERVIEW COLUMN - Students organize first-ever vendor fair » 18

INSIDE

‘AMERICAN HUSTLE’ Film looks promising for upcoming Academy Awards » 23

CONCERT REVIEW Boston Modern Orchestra Project plays Prof. David Rakowski’s (MUS) compositions » 23

MLK CELEBRATION Student art groups commemerate an American legend » 19

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What’s happening in Arts on and off campus this week

ON-CAMPUS EVENTS

Opening Reception: ‘Blood Memory’

Using fabric, photographs and wood, multi-disciplinary artist Lisa Rosowsky mines her experience as a member of the so-called “second generation”—one who did not directly suffer the horrors of the Holocaust, but in whom the “blood memory” of her family’s experience lives.

Rosowsky transforms family photographs and a collection of gloves, along with silk, wool and plaster into haunting and perfectly crafted sculptures, fiber works and even furniture.

Opening reception is Thursday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. in the Kniznick Gallery in the Women’s Studies Research Center. The exhibition will then be on view during the gallery’s hours.

Brandeis Student Vendor Fair

Andrea Stern ’14 and Marissa Lazar ’14

Come check out and support all of the talented Brandeis students selling or displaying artwork at the fair.

There will be a variety of vendor booths ranging from jewelry to photography. There will also be a gallery displaying paintings by Brandeis students and curated by Brandeis students. This is a great opportunity to get gifts for Valentine’s day and more.

All members of the greater Brandeis community, as well as family and friends, are welcome.

This event is sponsored by Her Campus Brandeis, Entrepreneurship Club, Student Activities and the Fine Arts department.

Friday in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium from 2 to 5 p.m.

Students organize arts and crafts vendor fair MORGAN BRILL/the Justice

JustArts chatted with Marissa Lazar ’14 and Andrea Stern ’14 about the upcoming fair they planned for student vendors.

JustArts: So I understand that this is the first time that we’ve had an arts and crafts fair for student vendors. Where did this idea come from?

Andrea Stern: Well, I was on Facebook and it came up on my news feed that Marissa sold jewelry that she made online, on Etsy. So I clicked on the link and I thought that everything she made looked amazing. The next day I saw her in the library and she happened to be wearing a ring that she had made, and I said “Your stuff is incredible! What if you were able to sell your jewelry on campus?” We have so many vendors that come—outside vendors that don’t work for Brandeis. … I spoke to her about the idea, and Marissa is the [Undergraduate Department Representative] for the Fine Arts department, and she said “That’s amazing! Because I have to do an event anyway, so let’s make it happen.”

Marissa Lazar: When Andrea came up to me, she wanted to interview me about my work, and I was thinking, that’s so unfair for me to be interviewed about my Etsy page when I have a bunch of friends in the Art department who have their own websites, sell their own photography, sell their own jewelry, mini sculptures, everything. … So when she came to interview me, we just rambled back and forth, and this idea formed in five minutes.

JA: How long have you been planning the fair, and what has gone into that process?

AS: Way into the semester. I think that there were definitely emails that went back and forth, and then we got [Director of Student Activities] Stephanie Grimes on board.

ML: And then there was a boy from Entrepreneurship Club, Nathan Feldman ’14, who was working with the art professors in the department, trying to set up a student-run art show for artists to be their own marketing agents too. We got in contact with him, and we all put our ideas together, and that’s actually really how this came up.

AS: It’s been a collaborative process. We’ve met a couple times. It took a couple months—we didn’t want this to be rushed. We met last semester, but we said we didn’t want to do this that semester—we wanted people to use their breaks to make art, to have enough to sell and really be able to show off all the great products that they make.

ML: Taking it from someone who is in art classes, and my business is on the side. You have paintings that are due constantly and have to work on the side. You don’t have the time to do it on your own time at school, so we were like “oh, you can do it during the break.” And now we’re joking that you can get a Valentine’s Day present because it’s so early!

JA: Besides Stephanie Grimes, have you reached out to any faculty or staff members while planning?

AS: We’re really hoping we can get faculty and staff at the event, so that way they can really see the work that their students do.

ML: [Feldman] was really working with a lot of the faculty originally, with his idea, because he’s not in the Art department and felt like he didn’t know as much about the department, so he did a lot of research and he came to the table with some advice from our teachers. A lot of our professors sell their own work in galleries and different spaces already, so we spoke to a few of them about some advice, but we’re just really hoping that they’ll come and be good customers.

JA: What sort of art will be in the fair?

ML: We have a range. We tried to advertise to people outside of the art department as well. … There is one boy [Gustavo Lopes ’15] who has his own clothing company, so he will be selling clothing. It’s called NlightN. … There’s two people selling jewelry, myself included. There will be, I think, some people selling photographs they’ve made, some people selling prints. I think there’s one table that’s going to be a mix of different crafts, too. Metalworking Club will be there, too.

JA: Can you tell us when and where we can come visit?

AS: The [Shapiro Campus Center], Friday, Jan. 24, 2 to 5 p.m. in the Atrium.

—Rachel Hughes

Senior Art Exhibition: ‘Fired Up!’

Get fired up with Brandeis studio artists who exhibit the semester’s accomplishments in painting, sculpture and printmaking.

This exhibition is free and open for viewing by the public and is sponsored to the Fine Arts department.

On view in Dreitzer Gallery in the Spingold Theater Center. The exhibition is on view every day during Spingold’s hours of operation.

OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS Boston Loves Impressionism

Boston loves Impressionism and always has. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston invites you to select the works that will hang in its new exhibition.

Choose from a new group of paintings each week—from artists like Claude Monet, August Renoir and their contemporaries—by casting a vote online at http://mfa.org/, and enter to win free tickets to the exhibition.

Vote from now through Sunday online to choose works for next week’s exhibition. The exhibition will change each week and be on view every day at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Admission ranges from $0 to $25, and is free with a Brandeis ID.

‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’

Your favorite Rocky characters have been born again, in a way you have to see to believe. The Rocky Horror Avengers Show will thrill you, chill you, and fulfill you with our preshows, costume contest and the main attraction—Rocky Horror.

In the costume contest, have your chance to win a glowing tesseract and quite a bit of a goody bag. This showing is hosted by RKO Army.

Friday at 10 p.m. at the Orpheum Theater in Foxboro, Mass. Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased online by visiting http://brownpapertickets.com/.

‘The Color Purple’

Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this soul-stirring musical tells the unforgettable story of a woman who—through love—finds the strength to triumph over adversity and discover her own unique voice.

This event is cosponsored by the De-

partment of Student Activities and the Theater department.

Saturday from 7 to 11 p.m. at the SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston.

Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for faculty.

Transporation is provided from campus, and buses will leave from Theater Lot at 7 p.m. This event is sponsored by Student Events.

Institute of Contemporary Art

As a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1960s, artist Christina Ramberg demonstrated a preoccupation with 1950s gender constructions, her paintings depicting bodies forced into submission by undergarments designed to create an ideal female form.

The Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser Gallery at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art will house a selection of Ramberg’s paintings, which will be on view through March.

On view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Admission ranges from $0 to $15, and is $10 with a college ID.

‘The Donkey Show’

The celebrated smash hit production The Donkey Show brings you the ultimate disco experience—a crazy circus of mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Come party on the dance floor to all the 1970s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you.

After the show, the party continues into the night so you can live out your own fantasy of disco fever. The 90-minute-long show is sponsored by Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater.

Performances are every Saturday at the Oberon in Cambridge.

Tickets range from $25 to $45 and are available online at http://tickets.americanrepertorytheater.org/.

POP CULTURE n

ww pop culture people—there are Well, now two more big celebrity weddings appearing on the horizon.

When actor Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard were spotted leaving a West Hollywood restaurant last Monday, a sneaky photographer snapped a shot of a big diamond ring on Heard’s left hand—though Heard reportedly took great measures to try and keep that hand covered up. Now, People Magazine confirms that the couple is engaged.

Depp, 50, and Heard, 27, met on the set of their 2011 film The Rum Diary. Notoriously private, the couple has barely alluded to their relationship in past interviews. This will be the second marriage for Depp (he was previously married to make-up artist Lori Anne Allison from 1983 to 1985).

After that, Depp was famously in a 14-year-long relationship with French singer Vanessa Paradis, with whom he had two children, Lily Rose and Jack.

However, Depp and Paradis broke up back in 2012. Meanwhile, Heard, who has come out as bisexual, had previously been in a four-year relationship with photographer Tasya van Ree. As for this week’s second engagement announcement, actor (and son of Diana Ross) Evan Ross took to Twitter last Monday to announce that “The love of [his] life said YES!!!!!!” The love of his life who inspired these six exclamation points is none other than singer/actress Ashlee Simpson.

This will be the second marriage for Simpson, who was married to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz from 2008 until February 2011. With Wentz, she has son Bronx Mowgli, 5. Simpson, 29, and Ross, 25, went public with their relationship back in July.

Then, in November, the couple attended The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere, where Ross was caught gushing about Simpson, saying, “She’s the one.” It sure looks like their romance caught fire rather fast.

In other news, pregnant No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani announced via Instagram on Friday that she is expecting

By Mara Sassoon

CREATIVE COMMONS

VOWS: People magazine announced that actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are engaged. another boy. Stefani already has two sons, Kingston, 7, and Zuma, 5, with her husband, musician Gavin Rossdale.

Posting a photo of herself wearing a crown, Stefani wrote, “I was ready to hand over the crown. but I guess I am still queen of the house. #itsaboy #surroundedbyboys.”

Although other sources close to the couple confirmed that Stefani was pregnant back in September, this is the first public confirmation from the singer herself.

A piece of more unfortunate news came out of Hollywood this week, as Dennis Rodman’s agent announced that the former NBA star has checked into rehab to treat his long struggle

with alcoholism. Recently, Rodman, 52, returned from his latest trip to North Korea.

He has been in the spotlight most recently for these visits, during which he met leader Kim Jong Un. They started in February 2013, when Rodman accompanied the HBO documentary series Vice to host basketball exhibitions there.

Rodman’s rehab stint comes just after eyebrow-raising comments he made earlier this month, in which he stated that Kenneth Bae, a Korean American missionary who is imprisoned in North Korea, was at fault for his situation.

Rodman later apologized, and attributed the comments he made to his drinking and the pressure he was under.

ARTS COVER PHOTOS: JOSH HOROWITZ, ANNIE KIM AND ABBY KNECHT/the Justice and Creative Commons. DESIGN: OLIVIA POBIEL/the Justice.

THE JUSTICE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

MEMORIAL

PHOTOS BY ANNIE KIM/the Justice

EVERYBODY SING: Keynote speaker Jane Sapp encourages the audience to sing along as she performs a song.

Annual show commemorates King’s legacy

BY RACHEL HUGHES JUSTICE EDITOR

One of my favorite things about the time surrounding winter break each year is the rush of holidays we get to celebrate with family and friends—Christmas, New Year’s and one that probably isn’t usually at the forefront of people’s minds, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For Brandeis, MLK Day is about reflecting on and celebrating our university’s heritage of diversity, social justice and activism, and each year student clubs host programs that up the ante in our observance.

Yesterday evening, continuing their celebration of King’s life after already hosting a day-long service activity for local middle and high school students, MLK & Friends Club teamed up with Dean of Student Life Jamele Adams and the African and AfroAmerican Studies department to host a memorial program. Though this is the ninth year that the University has hosted a memorial for King, the programming was, this year as much as ever, dynamic and celebratory, and geared toward facilitating a dialogue about King’s teachings.

The memorial, which was fondly called “For the Love of a Dream!” was staged in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater, and every seat in the house was filled far before the program began. As the excited audience settled down, a sound bite played, prefacing the program with the words of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “If there is no struggle, there is no

progress,” the bit began, leading into a warm introduction by Adams. Beginning with Adams, each performer and speaker shared his or her own contribution to the memorial, each with an artistic and sentimental flair that drove home King’s message.

Adams began by delivering a slam poem, detailing in no uncertain terms that the society we live in is not, in fact, a post-racial one, and sending the audience into roars of applause and reactionary finger snapping as he chronicled the struggle for civil rights from its earliest origins in the abolitionist movement. “How outside of yourself would you go to get out of your own way?” he slammed toward the end.

Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS), who hosted the rest of the program, took the stage next, reiterating to the audience that King’s work “was a fight that he committed his life to, [and] it was a fight that he gave his life to.” Williams hyped up the audience for a group of performers returning from a superb performance at last year’s memorial program, the Boston Tap Company.

Established in 2007, the group seeks to spread their message of love and positivity through dance, Williams said. Their routine certainly did that—starting off with no music at all, the group’s wild and resonant tapping progressed into an exciting choreography to Sam Cook’s song “A Change is Gonna Come.”

Taking a break from the musical aspect of the program, the first ever cohort of Brandeis Bridges

Fellows shared stories of their recent trip to Israel in order to institute an interfaith, intercultural dialogue between black and Jewish students on campus.

Bridges Fellow Makalani Mack ’16 took on the song in a heartfelt vocal performance, accompanied by three students on the bass guitar, electric guitar and saxophone.

Mack rose from his seat in the audience as the song’s tune began playing, and shared how growing up in Atlanta and walking by sites sacred to the Civil Rights Movement as he was growing up, like King’s place of burial, inspired him from a young age. During his performance, Dean Adams yelled “sing, sing!” at him, and the rest of the Fellows joined in as they were seated in the audience.

The highlight of the musical program, without a doubt, was keynote speaker Jane Sapp’s performances on the piano, playing and singing songs that were sung during King’s activism, at protests and rallies, and encouraging the audience to sing along with her.

Her husband, keynote speaker Hubert Sapp, said with a surprised smile after her first song that he never knows what she will do.

An absolutely unbelievable evening of music and performances, in addition to a slew of moving spoken-word pieces and orations, many composed of or inspired by the words of King himself, “For the Love of a Dream!” gave the Brandeis community a wonderful opportunity to commemorate the legacy of a man to whom we owe much of the freedom to which we have grown up accustomed.

IN HARMONY: Makalani Mack ’16, far left, sings “A Change is Gonna Come” as the audience claps along.

SHAKING HANDS: Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS), who hosted the evening, laughs with Dean, Jamele Adams.

HAPPY FEET: Members of the Boston Tap Company perform to the music of 1960s singer Sam Cook.

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ALBUM REVIEW

CREATIVE COMMONS

THE BOSS: Bruce Springsteen’s new album, High Hopes, much like his earlier work, focuses on themes of anger, politics and social justice.

Springsteen proves musical longevity By catherine rosch justice Staff writer

It can often be disappointing when a beloved popular artist releases a new album. Fans will build up their hopes for a specific sound, and often times, those hopes are not met.

Thankfully, Bruce Springsteen’s newest work, High Hopes, is by and large an exception. Perhaps this is because it comes less than two years on the heels of his successful Wrecking Ball. Or maybe it’s due to the fact that most of the songs on High Hopes are either re-imagined classics, never-before-recorded songs or covers. Although it does have its flaws, High Hopes is a nice blast to Springsteen at his finest.

Like Wrecking Ball, Born in the USA and Ghost of Tom Joad, High Hopes revolves around the themes of anger, politics and social justice.

Even if the songs are covers or re-

recorded takes of older Springsteen songs, they still resonate with current events. That becomes especially clear in the third song on the album. “American Skin (41 Shots)” was originally written in honor of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed black man who was shot to death by the New York Police Department in 1999. With themes of injustice, race and failings of the legal system, there is something reminiscent of Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin in the song. This was especially clear in the refrain of “You can get killed just for living in/ you can get killed just for living in your American skin,” that race can be a death sentence for many young black men.

The same thing can be said of “The Wall.” Springsteen originally wrote the song after a trip to the Vietnam Memorial and in honor of musicians who died in Vietnam.

However, despite its age, “The Wall”

still rings true to contemporary listeners. We are still in a war that many Americans are unhappy with, and has had a very high cost of life, much like the situation in Vietnam.

That is Springsteen’s strength: writing timeless ballads. It doesn’t matter what decade it is. His music still is relatable to what is going on in the world.

However, not all the older songs work or mesh well. As a whole, the album feels fragmented and disjointed at times, going from fast to slow in tempo with very little warning.

“High Hopes,” the titular song, may be a Springsteen mainstay from the ’90s, but it falls flat in this album.

The riffs last just a bit too long, and the lyrics do not have Springsteen’s usual cynicism and bitterness.

“Just Like Fire Would,” a cover

by Springsteen of a song by the Australian punk band The Saints, was also disappointing. There’s

nothing wrong with “Just Like A Fire Would” per say; it even has a Springsteen sort of vibe to it. All the same, the song, in comparison to some of the other pieces on the albums, is missing the intensity that I was expecting.

Two songs in particular really stood out to me. “Harry’s Place” is one of the few newer songs on the album, originally written in 2001 but cut from earlier albums. From the get-go, it’s seductive, with a slow beat and Springsteen’s low, rumbling voice. Unlike many of the other songs on the album, “Harry’s Place” alludes to more modern themes than other songs, with references to hipsters and sexuality.

However, like other Springsteen songs, the general feel is strictly blue collar and working class.

“The Ghost of Tom Joad” has always been one of my favorite Springsteen songs, and the rendi-

tion on High Hopes certainly does not disappoint. For one thing, this version is over seven minutes long, and every second is worth it. It is not fully identical to the original “Ghost of Tom Joad” but rather an update for a new decade and a new generation. However, even with a new guitar riff, “Ghost of Tom Joad” still took me back to an early Springsteen.

High Hopes is not a perfect album.

It can be disjointed at times and some of the song cuts are simply too long. If one is expecting a return to Darkness on the Edge of Town or Born To Run, they are going to be disappointed. Springsteen is older, and at times, his songs can feel dated. High Hopes may not match up to his greatest works, but it breathes a new life into a great artist and shows that Bruce Springsteen isn’t going to be done recording for a long time.

mUSIC

Music department attempts to attract non-majors

By EMILY WISHINGRAD justice EDITOR

Brandeis is known for its prominent arts programs, but at times, it seems like arts students are the only ones benefiting from the diverse array of arts programs that the University provides. According to the chair of the Music department, Prof. YuHui Chang (MUS), the department is looking to recruit more students who are not necessarily interested in a major or minor in Music but in engaging with the variety of Music classes that are offered.

In an email interview with the Justice, Chang wrote that, given the University’s capacity as a liberal arts school rather than a conservatory, the Music department “see[s] providing a rich musical environment to all Brandeis students an important part of our mission.” Chang additionally wrote that in the Music department, “the majority of the courses… [offered] at the [undergraduate] level (course number 1-99) are opened to (with some particularly targeting at) non-music majors/minors. Many of them don’t even have prerequisites.”

In an email interview with the Justice, Prof. Seth Coluzzi (MUS), the undergraduate advising head for the Music department, also mentioned that some of these courses are designed for students who have no knowledge in music. One example is MUS 45A: “Beethoven,” taught

by Prof. Allan R. Keiler (MUS). The course catalogue clearly states:

“open to music majors and non-majors.”

There are, however, courses that require a little more experience.

Coluzzi himself teaches one such course, MUS 34B, “Songwriting.”

The course catalogue mentions that MUS 5A: “Fundementals of Music” or a “basic understanding of the fundamentals of music (chords, scales, notation)” is a prerequisite for the course. The description also mentions that it would be helpful to have the ability to sing or play an instrument before taking the class. With these prerequisites in mind, it seems that students need to be a little more committed.

There clearly are plenty of courses available for students who are simply interested or intrigued by music but not necessarily dedicated to receiving a degree in the field. The question, then, is whether or not students take advantage of these courses. Chang noted that non-Music majors and minors can sometimes “feel intimidated” by the courses, or “need more guidance.” In order to make sure students capitalize on these offers, the department, according to Chang, has recently distributed flyers that target non-Music majors or minors. One of the flyers lists the Music courses offered this semester. The other provides information about extracurricular music opportunities such as music ensembles, private lessons and concerts.

“These flyers show the students how they can participate in music and

XIAOYU YANG/the Justice

STRINGING THINGS TOGETHER: In November, Pianist Naoko Sugiyama, violonist Susanna Ogata and cellist Jacques Lee Wood performed as part of the Marquee Series in Slosberg Music Center, one of the many ways non-Music students can access music. make music part of their student life even if they are not thinking of being a Music major or minor,” Chang wrote. Chang also mentioned that the department is working on redoing its website’s “Frequently Asked Questions” section to be more accessible to non-Music majors and minors.

Both Coluzzi and Chang affirmed that there is a current shortage of Music faculty, a fact that Coluzzi referred to as the reason that the department does not offer as many

classes for a variety of different levels as they would like. Coluzzi wrote, “We enjoy teaching courses to students of all levels with an interest in music, and we try to offer courses for non-majors as much as possible.

Sometimes this is difficult with the diminished size of our faculty in recent years, which means that we can’t always offer all of the courses that we would like to and that we feel students would want.”

Chang noted that in the past, the

department has requested to restore the size of the faculty to its “pre-2008 financial crisis numbers.” But the request “has to be granted by the provost and the dean first.”

Hopefully, the Music department’s efforts to attract more non-Music majors and minors to their classes will come to fruition as a music education, even an introductory one, is something all students should experience during their time at a liberal arts university.

ON CAMPUS

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THEATER

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COOKING UP A STORM: From left to right: Karen Lengler ’15, Michael Frederikse ’15, Michelle Wexler ’15 and Emily Duggan ’15, performed at Boris’ Kitchen’s annual show in Sept. 2013.

JOSH HOROWITZ/Justice File Photo

UTC unveils lineup for spring semester

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s the spring semester begins, look forward to the Undergraduate Theater Collective’s upcoming shows!

April 3-6

Feb. 27 & March 1

April 10-13

Brandeis Ensemble Theatre

Hillel Theater Group

The Undergraduate Theater Collective, an umbrella group of five theater groups on campus, has announced its lineup of performances for the spring semester. In an email to the Justice, UTC Coordinator Alyssa Bickoff ’15 explained that the various groups will produce Brandeis Cares, 1984, Killer & Me, Hairspray and Boris’ Kitchen’s Spring Show. Bickoff adds that they “are especially looking forward to having Brandeis Cares as a main stage performance for the first time.” In the past, Brandeis Cares has co-sponsored with the Brandeis Pluralism Alliance to feature various musical numbers, improvisational skits and other performances—all in support of AIDS research and fundraising.

The UTC umbrella consists of five dis-

Brandeis Players

Tympanium Euphorium

‘Hairspray’

JUSTICE EDITOR

‘1984’

Brandeis Cares

‘Killer & Me’

By JESSIE MILLER

March 27-30

tinct groups, all of which are run by undergraduate students and share performance space in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater: Brandeis Ensemble Theatre, Boris’ Kitchen, Brandeis Players, Hillel Theater Group and Tympanium Euphorium. Each of these five groups represents a different aspect of theater, ranging from musicals to sketch comedy.

Brandeis Cares, which is related to the larger organization Broadway Cares, seeks to raise awareness about AIDS through theater productions, ticket sales, silent auctions and raffles. Since it is a main stage production this year, the charitable event will be able to have an even stronger impact than in prior years.

1984, produced by Brandeis Players, is based on George Orwell’s novel of the same name. In the novel, Orwell raises perplexing questions on political tyranny and so-

April 25-26 ‘Boris’ Kitchen’s Spring Show’ Boris’ Kitchen

cialism in a dystopian society under the watchful eye of constant government surveillance. As the National Security Agency has filled the news in recent months, Players’ production of 1984 has the potential to create an intellectual dialogue on Orwell’s society in a modern context.

Killer & Me, an original dark comedy written by John Schnorrenberg ’14 and produced by BET, will take the stage April 3 through 6. Killer & Me centers upon the unusual romance between a police detective and serial killer and according to Schnorrenberg, the play uses the characters to mock the typical romantic comedy.

Having won eight Tony Awards in 2003, the nationally acclaimed musical Hairspray comes to Brandeis April 10 through 13 as HTG’s spring production. The musical centers around Baltimore teenager Tracy Turnblad, who wins the chance to perform

on a local dance television show. However, the musical also raises serious commentary on the social injustices of the 1960s— something quite pertinent to the founding values of Brandeis.

Sketch comedy group Boris’ Kitchen, continuing an annual tradition, presents its Spring Show on April 25 and 26. As usual, BK performs short skits on various topics, often relying on pop culture references and Brandeis-related inside jokes. In addition to their spring performance, BK also hosts a charitable event in the fall semester and the September “Old Sh*t Show.”

As always, theater remains a central part of student life on campus, attracting a wide range of students to its numerous productions each semester. From BK’s comedy routines to the dystopian world of 1984, UTC displays a range of performances with their upcoming productions.

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FILM REVIEW

CREATIVE COMMONS

VANITY FAIR: Actresses Jennifer Lawrence (left) and Amy Adams star in the new release American Hustle, which has been quickly collecting awards.

Star-studded film hustles award season

By RACHEL LIFF

JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

American Hustle, a tale of con men, the FBI and the mafia, has already made its mark on the awards season. Directed by David O. Russell and written by Russell and Eric Warren Singer, the film’s plot is based on the Abscam scandal of the 1970s, an operation that targeted the trafficking of stolen property and public corruption. At the Golden Globes, the film won for Best Motion Picture, while actresses Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence took home the awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. In the same week, the film was nominated for a total of 10 Academy Awards. It seems that American Hustle is on its way to champion a competitive awards season, but does it deserve the acclaim?

In the beginning, the pacing of the film balances action with exposition. First, the audience is shown

a small portion of a pivotal scene, but the film quickly jumps back in time, revealing more dimensions to each character and how the unlikely team of con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), his sly and unpredictable partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) and FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper) assembled. Through the exposition, the audience learns that DiMaso caught Rosenfeld and Prosser cheating investors out of money. He allows them to avoid charges by forcing them to work with the law and unveil a number of other con artists.

DiMaso’s determination slips into a dangerous obsession with infiltrating the mafia and eliminating their corrupt role in politics. He becomes compulsive, neurotic and violent as his team reluctantly proceeds with using Mayor Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner) as a route to the mob. By this point, the skeleton of the film is finally built and the audience circles back to the opening

scene with a full understanding of the situation—unfortunately, this is where the film begins to falter.

Although Russell and Singer received nominations for directing and writing, their meticulous screenplay left me bored at times and confused at others. As the character’s relationships become increasingly complicated, the writing drags. Small negotiations get drawn out while major conflict is rushed through, fights are repeated and it takes far too long for the conflict to culminate. This disrupted the pacing and arc of the film. As the plot unfolded, it became less engaging and I began to lose interest in the characters.

Luckily, the period and location of the film, New York and New Jersey in the 1970s, is rich in artistic and historical features. The sets and costumes were incredibly detailed.

From comb overs and hair curlers to bell-bottoms and disco style, the designers of the feature were spot

on. Even when the writing fell flat, the surroundings depicted a world to intrigue the audience. Although the shape of the film is flawed, Russell crafts incredibly captivating, funny and multi-dimensional characters. Even the minor characters, such as Irving’s wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), and DiMaso’s boss, Thorsen (Louis C.K.), are highlights.

Each character is filled with complicated and honest motivations, even if their actions are not so sincere.

The film’s most notable achievement, however, was not how well these characters were written, but how each actor approached and perfected his or her role. The entire cast was superb, especially Bale, who is as versatile as he is committed, and put on as much weight to play Rosenfeld as he lost for his Oscarwinning performance in The Fighter. Cooper, who has now received the Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor two years in a row, encapsulated solemnity and

hilarity, creativity and absurdity.

Even Robert DeNiro’s appearance as mob boss Victor Tellegio was exciting. It was upsetting, however, to discover that Renner was snubbed from any award nominations. Even though his role was small, his performance was the most convincing of all. The entire cast of the film has already been recognized as the Best Ensemble Cast from lesser-known institutes such as Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. The immense talent of the cast is reflected in their slew of nominations this award season.

American Hustle is the only film this year to secure nominations in all four of the acting categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.

Although the actors’ competitors are equally as talented, American Hustle presents skill sets on many fronts and may earn sweeping wins this award season.

CONCERT REVIEW

Professor premieres original work at conservatory

By NATE SHAFFER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

On Friday, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project premiered Prof.

David Rakowski’s (MUS) Piano Concerto no. 2 at New England Conservatory’s famed Jordan Hall in Boston. This concert, entitled “Triple Threat” featured the works of three prominent local composers: Elena Ruehr, Ken Ueno and Brandeis’ own Rakowski. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project commissions new pieces by prominent composers. As stated on their website, BMOP seeks to “bridge the gap between the contemporary composer and contemporary audience.”

Rakowski brought a remarkably unpretentious demeanor to the preconcert talk with all the musicians.

Wearing black jeans, a black shirt, jacket and a very loud and colorful tie, he joked as much as he answered the interviewer’s questions. As a man of many talents, he managed to turn microphone sharing into something like a Marx brothers routine—and much to the dismay of Ueno, also Rakowski used his phone to photograph his view of the audience. When not making jokes, Rakowski insightfully spoke of his own work. This concerto, a type of composition that contrasts one or more solo instruments with a larger orchestra, stemmed from Rakowski’s extensive solo piano etudes, which are written for only one instrument. These diverse and high-energy etudes attacked the conventional etude from many angles. Their technical, conceptual, compositional and stylistic strictures aimed to stretch the technique of the performer and

the mind of the composer.

Rakowski began these etudes in the mid ’90s—almost by accident while attempting to clear his mind during a frustrating project. Rakowski enjoyed writing these character pieces and creating additional strictures: that these pieces had to be finished in six days and could not be revised.

In 2000, pianist Amy Briggs offered to record all 34 of the etudes he had written. After this offer, Rakowski delved more into this self-professed obsession of his, “When someone tells you that [they are recording ‘all of them’], you just have to go off and write 40 more,” he said. Today, the total number of etudes stands at 100.

The names of these etudes are almost as colorful as the music itself; “Eight Misbehaving” and “Menage a Droit,” an etude for the right hand, are two favorites of mine.

After the interview period, the first two pieces in the concert were an excellent staty to the concert portion.

Ruehr’s “Summer Day,” inspired by a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe, felt very cinematic and impressionistic.

Ueno’s “Hapax Legomenon, a concert for two-bow cello and orchestra” featured, quite obviously, a two-bowed cello. The player, Frances-Marie Uitti, played all four strings simultaneously, which allowed for an exploration of new harmonic possibilities on the traditional instrument. The piece felt ground-breaking and new, but it also was able to strike an emotional chord with the audience.

Rakowski’s piece began like a runon sentence, with a torrent of notes on the low register of the piano and occasional interjections from the orchestra. As the piano’s range grew,

the orchestration grew; the strings also added some playful pizzicato.

The next section brought dense harmonies and in exchange for the piano’s incessant typing, Briggs stood up and started plucking the strings inside the instrument.

The second movement brought a sorrowful shift. It was an elegy to one of Rakowski’s mentors at Princeton University: Milton Babbitt. It borrowed motives both from Babbit and a dream Rakowski had while writing the piece.

There was marvelous syncopation, especially in the brass section. The dream-like movement brought me to musical places I have never been to before. The final movement featured several bizarre and aggressive grooves, drawing influences from jazz and stride piano playing. The concerto ended with some wonderful and rapid ritornello-like exchanges between the orchestra and soloist. I cannot overstate the freedom in Rakowski’s music. However, it’s not an intimate, improvisational freedom like one finds in certain styles of jazz.

Rather, the music stylistically shifts and progresses with reckless abandon. There is a certain feeling of spontaneity, though given the methodical process of notation, it is anything but spontaneous. His music commands and directs the listener to many different and new places, which for me at least, makes it sometimes hard to keep up with.

With two piano concertos, 100 etudes and an exhaustive list of awards and other compositions, one wonders: aside from teaching at Brandeis this week, what will David Rakowski do next?

CREATIVE COMMONS

TAKE A SEAT: The New England Conservatory’s ornate Jordan Hall in Boston housed the Boston Modern Orchestra Project during a performance last Friday night.

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TOPof the

ARTS ON VIEW

Brandeis TALKS

CHARTS Top 10s for the week ending January 19

Quote of the week “We need you young people more than ever.”

BOX OFFICE

—Jane Sapp, performer, activist and keynote speaker, speeking at the ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day memorial program.

(News, p. 1)

1. Ride Along 2. Lone Survivor 3. The Nut Job 3D 4. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 5. Frozen (2013) 6. American Hustle 7. Devil’s Due 8. August: Osage County 9. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 10. Saving Mr. Banks

What did you order at Louis’ Kosher Deli?

NYT BESTSELLERS

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BABY YOU’RE A FIREWORK: While vacationing at Disney’s Epcot with her family this winter break, Justice editor Marissa Ditkowsky ’16 took this photo of fireworks while counting down to the new year.

Andrew Miller ’16 “Pastrami on whole wheat with deli mustard, onions, lettuce and tomato with a small matzo ball soup.”

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CROSSWORD

Nina Sayles ’17 “The Sherman Dog with a large matzo ball soup.”

Calvin Wang ’16 “Hot corned beef wrap with lettuce and honey-roasted onion.”

Nathan Young ’15 “Salami on pumpernickel with deli mustard, honey-roasted onion and roasted veggies.”

ACROSS 1 West African amulet 5 Repelled a mugger, in a way 10 Study at the last minute 14 Loads (of) 15 Garlic mayonnaise 16 Principle governing play, as in golf 17 Feint on the ice 18 Best kind of wrinkles to have, arguably 20 Afore 21 Either “Fargo” director 22 Prepares, as salad 23 Infield shape 25 Kilt wearer 26 Flag maker Betsy 27 Skipped the subway and bus 31 Sparkly stone 33 Prepare for vacation 34 Olympic pool division 35 Tempe sch.

36 What the starts of 18- and 57- Across and 3- and 28-Down can be 39 Caribbean music 40 Telephoned 42 Three-part cookie 43 First-string squad 45 Capital on the Danube 47 Cornfield bird 48 Passion 49 Home of the NHL’s Blackhawks, familiarly 52 Hitting bottom, spirits-wise 55 Elvis __ Presley 56 Letter after pi 57 Port in a storm 59 Lose traction 60 Japanese golfer Aoki 61 Melt glaze from, as a windshield 62 Soccer immortal 63 Bit of a florist’s greenery 64 Blunted swords 65 Mars : Rome : : __ : Greece DOWN 1 Blasé 2 Where embryos develop 3 Kid 4 Half of deux 5 Bricks-and mortar workers 6 Used a scope 7 Piggy bank addition 8 Letter-shaped annex 9 Drink for the calorie-conscious 10 Pricey brand of bubbly 11 Seeks an office 12 Away from the breeze 13 Untidy heap 19 “Over there!”

Nonfiction 1. Things that Matter—Charles Krauthammer 2. David and Goliath—Malcolm Gladwell 3. Killing Jesus—Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 4. Brainstorm—Daniel J. Siegel 5. I Am Malala— Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

iTUNES

1. Katy Perry—“Dark Horse (feat.

Juicy J)” 2. Aloe Bacc—“The Man” 3. Pitbull—”Timber (feat. Ke$ha)” 4. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera—“Say Something” 5. One Republic—“Counting Stars”

BILLBOARD

1. Soundtrack—Frozen 2. Beyonce— Beyonce 3. Kid Ink— My Own Lane 4. Eminem— The Marshall Mathers LP 2 5. Lorde—Pure Heroine 6. One Direction—Midnight Memories 7. Katy Perry—PRISM 8. Miley Cyrus—Bangerz 9. Night Visions—Imagine Dragons 10. R. Kelly—Black Panties 21 Trig function 24 Chic 25 Deserving of a standing O 27 “Be quiet,” in music 28 Social agency employee 29 “My Way” lyricist Paul 30 Laser emission 31 Clothing 32 Son of Isaac and Rebekah 33 Break down grammatically 37 1973 landmark court decision 38 “Mack the Knife” singer Bobby 41 Spanish Main ship 44 Playground squealer 46 “The House at __ Corner” 47 Weekly allowance earners 49 “Time in a Bottle”singer Jim 50 Vague timeperiod 51 Bumps on a log 52 “I don’t think so!”

53 Shock, as a perp 54 Not near here 55 “__ Baby”: “Hair” song 58 Exercise unit 59 Massage locale

Top of the Charts information provided by Fandango, the New York Times, Billboard. com and Apple.com.

STAFF’S Top Ten

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SUDOKU INSTRUCTIONS: Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

Randi Kates-Peirce, senior director of operations

“Corned beef on pumpernickel with sauerkraut and thousand island dressing with a side of matzo ball soup and a pickle.”

—Compiled by Lilah Zohar and Rachel Burkoff/the Justice

Fiction 1. The Invention of Wings—Sue Monk Kidd 2. The Goldfinch—Donna Tartt 3. Dark Woolf— Christine Feehan 4. Standup Guy— Stuart Woods 5. Sycamore Row—John Grisham

Solution to last issue’s sudoku

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Coed Vocals

By ILANA KRUGER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Something about duets has always interested me, which might be why some of my favorite bands feature both female and male vocalists. Bonus: the first three groups on this list are husband and wife duos.

1. The Weepies 2. Mates of State 3. The Submarines 4. Of Monsters and Men 5. Group Love 6. The New Pornographers 7. The Civil Wars 8. She & Him 9. The Oh Hello’s 10. The Melodic