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Justice
Volume LXIV, Number 22
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
ENCOURAGING INVOLVEMENT
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Journalist speaks on the red market
■ Scott Carney, author of
a book on the market for body parts, discussed drug testing and organ sales. By luke hayslip JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Investigative journalist Scott Carney spoke about the organ and skeleton market, drug testing and the unknown practices behind these businesses followed by a questionand-answer session and book signing last Wednesday. Carney is the author of The Red Market: On The Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers. The founder of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, Florence Graves, introduced Carney, who is a senior fellow of the institute. Carney opened his lecture by reflecting on his time as a student, when he first went to India in 1998. He learned Hindi and studied Bollywood music while writing his Ph.D. thesis. When money became sparse,
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UNIVERSITY ACTIVISM: Richard Goldstone stated that college students should be more involved in social justice-related issues.
Panel considers role of colleges in social justice ■ Richard Goldstone,
the former South African justice, was among the panel speakers Monday evening. By jonathan epstein JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
“Social Justice and the University: Perspectives from the U.S. and Abroad,” a panel discussion that centered on the question of how active American universities should be in advocating social justice, was held yesterday in the Mandel Center for the Humanities Reading Room. The seven panelists represented an array of international thought, coming from diplomatic, legal, business, activist and academic backgrounds. The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life sponsored the event, and six of the panelists
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serve on its advisory board. Daniel Terris, the director of the center, moderated the event and set the agenda by asking, “Where can Brandeis go in relation to its social justice mission?” Former South African Justice Richard Goldstone answered this question by defining what he viewed as appropriate parameters for universities. “There is nobody in this room who would not agree that universities should get involved with issues of social justice—that is part of the nature of the university,” he said. He stated that there are two levels of social justice: those that affect one’s own country or university and issues on an international scale. Goldstone advocated that students focus on issues that affect them and where they have expertise because “their voices will mean more.” He cited the effectiveness of South Afri-
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he “rented [his] body” for $2,500 by enrolling in a clinical trial for the erectile dysfunction medication Levitra. He became interested in the other participants of the trial, some of whom were ex-cons who could find few jobs and others who were “professional guinea pigs,” and made $60,000 a year. Carney began to research the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry will go to get a drug tested and approved. He commented that the drug industry in the U.S. faces cost constraints. According to Carney, it costs about one billion dollars to research, test and distribute medication in the U.S., but by crossing borders, pharmaceutical companies can save an average of one-third to two-thirds of the total cost. Clinical trials in foreign countries are much less monitored than U.S. agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration. The social side effects from drug testing are ever-increasing, said Carney. There have been several human deaths that have simply been swept
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Upgrades to cut energy costs, reduce footprint ■ The Board of Trustees
can students in the 1960s who, instead of protesting apartheid as a whole, focused on preventing apartheid in the university system. Norbert Weissberg, an international investor, stated that “the university’s place, first and foremost, is to teach students how to think for themselves” in an era of sound-bites, as well as to be empathetic and to understand opposing viewpoints. Weissberg faulted universities for not taking positions on controversial issues of social justice. Finding that universities rarely “demonstrate publicly [their] state[s] of mind,” he asked why universities “are virtually silent” when their scholarship allows them to form an informed, interesting opinion.“They are cheating the world of their knowledge. … We have a right to rely on the universities to inform the public and to take public stands
approved five million dollars to fund sustainable campus renovations. By Raquel kallas JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
The Brandeis Sustainable Energy Program aims to create an energy efficient campus that will cut utility costs and mitigate Brandeis’ carbon footprint. According to the Campus Sustainability Initiative’s website, the project will be completed within the next 16 months using five million dollars in funds appropriated by the Brandeis Board of Trustees. The program involves replacing light fixtures and aging temperature control systems, as well as “performance optimization” of targeted buildings, which involves finding and remedying any
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inefficiency in a building’s energy system. Buildings selected for the renovations include the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Bernstein-Marcus Administration Building, Kutz Hall, Slosberg Music Center and Sherman Student Center and Hassenfeld Conference Center. Sustainability Coordinator Janna Cohen-Rosenthal ’03 talked about the Sustainable Energy Program in an email to the Justice. She explained why certain buildings were selected for upgrades: “It gets into the ‘guts’ of a building and is fixing the heating/cooling and other systems. For the best return on [the] investment we have to focus on buildings that use the most energy per square foot.” The Board of Trustees budgeted five million dollars for the project. In an interview with Brande-
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Musical devotion
Road warriors
New dining post
Julia O'Toole leads a selective chorus that performs benefit concerts for Boston organizations.
Both tennis squads fared well in their first regular-season matches at Middlebury College last weekend.
The Senate approved a new vegan-vegetarian post during last Sunday’s meeting.
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