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Justice
Volume LXIII, Number 24
www.thejustice.org
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A DISCOURSE ON LEADERSHIP
Waltham, Mass.
CAMPUS SPEAKER
Ogletree speaks on race, class
■ Harvard professor Charles J. Ogletree discussed the Henry Gates arrest and its significance. By DANIEL HEINRICH JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
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INSPIRING WORDS: Melody Barnes, domestic policy adviser to President Barack Obama, and University President Frederick Lawrence. honored the work of Eli J. Segal ’64.
Obama aide discusses service ■ Melody Barnes spoke to
the Segal Fellows about their opportunities to serve as leaders in their communities. By TYLER BELANGA JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Last Wednesday, Melody Barnes, U.S. President Barack Obama’s domestic policy adviser, spoke at the second Eli J. Segal Leadership Lecture about the importance of public service and civic leadership. She highlighted Segal’s significant career accomplishments and urged the audience to try to emulate Segal in
their own lives and careers. The lecture was followed by a question-andanswer session mediated by University President Frederick Lawrence. Barnes’ lecture was organized by the Segal Citizen Leadership Program, which was founded in honor of the late Eli J. Segal ’64. According to its website, the Segal Program is a foundation that “seeks to carry on [Segal’s] legacy for inspiring leadership and community networking.” Barnes is the second high-profile politician to speak at the Segal leadership lecture, the first being former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2007. The Segal Program was started at Brandeis in 2007 by friends and family of Segal. In its first year, eight
Fellows were accepted into the program. Within 4 years, the number of Segal Fellows has risen to 44, including a group of eight Brandeis undergraduate students and students from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management Master in Public Policy program who were accepted this semester. Segal Fellows also include AmeriCorps alums and members of the Center for Youth and Communities, the Corporation for National and Community Service and City Year. Lawrence began the evening by talking about the late Segal, praising the work that he did as a leader and community organizer. He then allowed 2009 Segal Fellow Brian
Schon MPP ’10, to formally introduce Barnes to the audience of what he estimated to be 300 to 400 people. Schon, one of the primary organizers of the event, gave a brief history of the distinguished political career of Barnes. He listed many of the various positions within the government that Barnes has held, including director of legislative affairs for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and assistant council for the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. “We are here tonight so that we can inspire each other,” said Schon.
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Last Tuesday, Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law for the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice Professor, spoke to students and faculty on the subject of race and class in America at the Faculty Club. He has written books on the subject of race and class, including his most recent, The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America, which was the subject of Tuesday’s lecture. In his sixth visit to campus, Ogletree told the story of his friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest in July 2009. His goal, both in his book and in the lecture, was to tell the true story of Gates’ arrest and from there explain the implications for American society, said Ogletree. Ogletree said that on Thursday, July 16, 2009, Gates had just returned from a research trip to China. Upon returning to his house with his chauffeur, he found his door was jammed. With the help of his driver, he forced his way into the house. Minutes later, Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police arrived asking Gates to show identification. After presenting two forms
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research
Survey examines college LGBTQ students’ perception of safety ■ Student researcher Sara
Wooten ’11 hopes that campus student groups will raise awareness of sexual violence through discussions. By SHANI ABRAMOWITZ JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Prof. Karen V. Hansen (SOC) and Sara Wooten (GRAD), a master’s student in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brandeis, have been conducting a study that seeks to investigate the incidence of rape and assault against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer college students in the Boston area and to assess the efforts undertaken by higher-learning institutions to prevent incidents of
reported sexual violence, according to the survey’s webpage. In an e-mail to the Justice, Wooten wrote that her research is a pilot study that she hopes will be the foundation for a longer, possibly national study next year. During her undergraduate career at Purdue University, Wooten worked extensively in anti-rape initiatives and LGBTQ nonprofit activist circles,
and she noted that sexual violence in higher education goes almost wholly unnoticed. “Sexual violence in higher education is pervasive and almost completely under the radar,” Wooten wrote. It was during her time at Purdue that Wooten noticed that most of the research and literature devoted to campus rape focused primarily on the experiences of white, heterosexual
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A night against cancer
Softball team rallies
GPS site goes live
The Brandeis community fought cancer and celebrated life at the Relay For Life event on Saturday.
The softball team came back from seven runs down to win in extra innings.
The Student Union launched its online and text message shuttle-tracking service.
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women, she said. Wooten wrote that she began to wonder about students who may not have had a lot of visibility or access to the same resources as the more privileged, white, heterosexual students on campus—predominantly the lesbian, gay, transgender and queer communities.
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EDITORIAL FEATURES
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OPINION POLICE LOG
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COMMENTARY
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