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TO THE STREETS

BTV without

Secured club’s focus and funds shift away from original purposes

TV

By HILLEL BUECHLER and REBECCA KLEIN JUSTICE editors

In 2002, Brandeis Television, better known as BTV, won a successful bid to gain status as a secured club from the Student Union. As a result, the club, which was described in a November 2002 Justice article as a “24-hour cable television network available only to the Brandeis campus,” acquired an annual budget of $14,500, using the money to purchase camera equipment, expand broadcasting of the channel’s two original series and further ensure that the channel provides an “optimal rate of production and entertainment and service to the community,” said former BTV president Nate Westheimer ’05 in a 2002 interview with the Justice.

Nine years later, with an annual

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SLOGANS IN THE MAKING: The Sign Tent is where protest participants can create or take signs to display from Dewey Square.

Student arrested after joining Occupy Boston ■ Matt Gabrenya ’13 and

other Brandeis students have been involved in the Occupy Boston protests.

By SAM MINTZ JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Matt Gabrenya ’13 was arrested early last Tuesday morning for his role in last week’s Occupy Boston protests. According to the Boston Globe, 149 protesters in total were arrested that morning.

The arrests, which happened at about 1:30 a.m., were sparked by the expansion of the protesters’ encampment onto the Rose Kennedy Greenway from their original space in Dewey Park.

Noam Lekach ’14 was also involved with the protests, along with multitudes of students from Brandeis and other local universities.

According to Lekach, the protesters formed a human chain around

both of the parks to try to hold their ground against Boston police, who were enforcing the city’s mandate that protesters could only camp out at Dewey Park.

“It was pretty amazing,” said Lekach in an interview with the Justice. “People who don’t know each other were holding onto each other, linking up and being ready for whatever it would take to protect their movement.”

The Occupy Boston protests are an outgrowth of the national Occupy Wall Street movement.

“Most people who support Occupy Boston call for reforming Wall Street and removing special interest from government, but there [is] no one single issue or demand that summarizes our movement,” according to the Occupy Boston website. “People are dissatisfied with how our country is being run and want fundamental, lasting change of many kinds.”

Some protesters are taking action to support those less fortunate than themselves.

budget of $17,000, BTV today looks quite different from the BTV of 2002.

In the years after the club became secured, BTV produced several new series including BTV Cribs, which showcased the best decorated dorms and suites; Bamboozled by Brandeis, a show about the history of Brandeis; The Beat, a weekly show about arts, news, and culture; and Slice ‘n Deis, a fictional comedy based at Brandeis.

When BTV’s channel 65 was not airing new content, it aired original programming from previous years, movies, video footage of events on campus and sporting events, according to Westheimer in a 2004 interview with the Justice.

Since 2009, however, BTV has broadcasted no new original television programming, instead only

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Greek Council loses its regulatory powers

“I personally am there largely in solidarity with the people who are really struggling,” said Gabrenya in an interview with the Justice. “I think I have a greater responsibility because I have freedom, time and security.”

According to Gabrenya, most of those arrested on Tuesday morning were young men and women, many of them students, who had heard that protesters were likely to be arrested after moving onto the Rose Greenway.

“They were young people that were following this and heard the S.O.S. call to come and help protect the space and came out and made a real sacrifice to do it,” said Gabrenya.

Spokespeople for the movement have ensured the public that the protests are not over. According to the Boston Globe, Occupy Boston leaders are prepared to extend the protest into the winter.

“I don’t feel like it’s over,” said Lekach. “I feel like it’s the beginning of something much bigger.”

■ A Council of Presidents

will have the responsibilities previously delegated to the Greek Awareness Council.

By ANDREW WINGENS JUSTICE EDITOR

The Greek Awareness Council agreed to strip itself of powers concerning conflict resolution and rush mediation at the end of September after the GAC had trouble mediating conflicts between member fraternities and sororities, said Co-presidents of the GAC Mariah Voronoff ’14 and Dan Leisman ’14 in separate interviews with the Justice.

The power to resolve conflicts among fraternities and sororities and set rules for Greek rush events will now rest with a Council of Presidents, which is composed of

the presidents of the eight member fraternities and sororities of the GAC and the president of the GAC, said the co-presidents.

The Council is an organization formed by the fraternities and sororities and has no affiliation with Brandeis. The GAC, however, is an organization recognized by the Union Senate.

“All rules to govern the start and end dates of rush and the definitions thereof as well as the mediations of other conflicts or concerns that arise will be determined by a council of the Presidents of all of the Greek organizations and the GAC President(s),” according to amendment V of the new GAC constitution.

“The original purpose of the GAC was to raise awareness of Greek life and involve the Greek community on campus, and I think

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Exploring Paris

Women fall to rivals

Elections delayed

 Sujin Shin ’13 has discovered a unique French culture and lifestyle while studying abroad.

 The women’s soccer team was winless in both of its matches this weekend.

 The Student Union moved elections due to the resignation of a Union member.

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Senate discusses dining services, creation of midyear committee

Medical Emergency

Student Union President Herbie Rosen ’12 informed the senate that the date of the upcoming special election was changed due to Jenny Lau ’14 declining to accept the position of representative to the Alumni Association.

The election was extended, according to Rosen, “in order to be more efficient.”

Rosen said that there are candidates for every position except for the Foster Mods and Charles River Apartments, where there are currently no students running due to a problem with the broadcast system used to send emails to those parties.

Rosen said that the problem has now been fixed, and an email was sent out shortly reminding residents to run for those positions.

Director of Executive Affairs Abby Kulawitz ’12 informed the senate of the creation of a midyear committee, which will be composed of two midyears per year and staff members.

Kulawitz stated that the purpose of the committee is to “make us more aware of how to integrate midyears and the midyear experience.”

Executive Senator Shekeyla Caldwell ’14 emphasized that the senate needs to speak about Thanksgiving Shuttles—known as Turkey Shuttles—as soon as possible.

According to Article VI, section 4 of the Union Bylaws, the Services Committee of the Senate “Shall organize and run shuttle bus services to Logan Airport, New York City, and Long Island preceding Thanksgiving Break and Spring/Passover Recess.”

Because of the growing price of the shuttles, some senators explored the idea of amending the constitution to cancel the shuttles this semester, or perhaps permanently.

Senator for the Class of 2012 Missy Skolnik presented an emergency Senate Money Resolution to provide $200 for an event she hopes to cosponsor with the Senior Gift Committee. According to Skolnik, the money will be used to provide food and to make the event more attractive for students to attend.

The nature of the event, which is designed for seniors but open to other students, was concerning to some members of the senate who thought that the constitution prevents student funds to be provided for such an event.

After a prolonged debate, the senate consulted the constitution and after finding no apparent issues voted to pass the resolution.

Caldwell informed the senate that after the three total resolutions passed at the meeting, the Senate now has a total of $10,632 to spend this semester.

Senator for the Class of 2014 Ricky Rosen presented research he conducted about dining services from a survey of 220 students.

After meeting with Aramark management and presenting many of Rosen’s findings, Director of Dining Services Aaron Bennos agreed to open the Provisions on Demand Market until 2 a.m. on three upcoming Saturday nights as a trial run.

Additionally, more frozen, healthy meals will soon be able to be purchased on meal plans.

Senator for Massell Quad Dean Kaplan ’14 informed the Senate of an issue regarding Sabbath keys in Deroy Hall.

According to a resident, a small light still flickers upon entering the building, rendering the usage of a Sabbath key inconsequential.

Kaplan stated that he will work to solve this issue before the upcoming Simchat Torah holiday later this week.

The Senate moved to executive session and discussed a confidential matter.

There were 16 senators present at the meeting.

Oct. 11—A 30-year-old female was sick and weak after using a treadmill in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Complex. The party was treated on-scene by BEMCo with a signed refusal for further care.

Oct. 13—A student in Pomerantz Residence Hall requested BEMCo for a sore foot. BEMCo treated the party on-scene with a signed refusal for further care.

Oct. 13—University Police received a report of a student in the Foster Mods having trouble breathing and experiencing dizziness. BEMCo and University Police responded, and the party was treated onscene with a signed refusal for further care.

Oct. 14—University Police received a report of an intoxicated male outside of Deroy Hall; University Police and BEMCo responded. The party was treated on-scene and transported via ambulance to the hospital for further care.

Oct. 15—A reporting party notified University Police that a 20-year-old intoxicated female had fallen and that her nose was bleeding. BEMCo requested an ambulance to transport the patient to the NewtonWellesley Hospital.

Oct. 15—BEMCo standby requested BEMCo units in response to a vomiting 19-yearold non-Brandeis student in the Usdan Student Center. The party was transported via ambulance to the Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Oct. 15—A reporting party stated that her friend was intoxicated and having trouble walking near the Sachar International Center. The intoxicated party was transported to the Newton-Wellesley Hospital via ambulance.

Oct. 15—A party in Reitman Residence hall reported that she had lower back pain and symptoms of infection. BEMCo treated the party and University Police transported the party via police cruiser to the

Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Oct. 16—An on-duty Community Advisor called University Police stating that a student on his floor with a known peanut allergy was having a reaction after ingesting peanuts. The student was transported to the Newton-Wellesley Hospital via ambulance.

Traffic

Oct. 12—University Police compiled a report on a hit-andrun accident in the Theater Lot.

Vandalism

Oct. 13—University Police received a call regarding a broken window in the hallway of the Usen Castle; they compiled a report on the incident.

Oct. 15—University Police reported vandalism to a urinal partition in the men’s bathroom occurred during Liquid Latex’s “Dance Your Clothes Off” event. A report on the vandalism was compiled.

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Larceny

Oct. 15—A party in Hassenfeld Residence Hall reported that his backpack and laptop were missing from his room upon his return. There was no apparent forced entry; University Police compiled a report.

Oct. 16—A party came to the University Police station to report a theft that occurred on Sept. 21. The party stated that sorority funds were taken from her purse. University Police compiled a report.

—compiled by Marielle Temkin

Amherst College president inaugurated AMHERST, Mass.—Amherst College has inaugurated its new president, the first female to hold the spot since the school's founding in 1821.

Carolyn “Biddy” Martin was inaugurated Sunday as the 19th president of Amherst. The ceremony was the culmination of a weekend of events on the western Massachusetts campus.

The 60-year-old Martin takes over for Anthony Marx, who left to become president of the New York Public Library. Martin is a native of Timberlake, Va., and was most recently chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She praised Amherst’s current and previous leaders on Sunday for their dedication to expanding its racial, cultural and religious diversity.

Amherst has about 1,750 students and is consistently ranked among the nation's top liberal arts schools.

Sheep in Amherst tests positive for rabies

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

The Justice welcomes submissions for errors that warrant correction or clarification. Email editor@ thejustice.org.

Oct. 14—University Police received a complaint of noise at 567 South St. The police advised the students to turn their music down; they complied without incident.

Oct. 16—A reporting party called University Police complaining of a large party and loud music in the Foster Mods.

University Police dispersed the crowd without incident.

AP BRIEFS

—Eitan Cooper

n An article in Arts reviewing a Starving Artists performance last week contained numerous errors.

The article omitted the fact that the performance took place at a coffeehouse organized by members of Margaret, A Tiger’s Heart, the upcoming play from Hold Thy Peace and the Brandeis Players. The article also omitted the fact that several other groups performed at the event, including Proscenium, Up the Octave, and Company B. Additionally, the article misstated the name of the soloist for “Accidentally in Love”; it was Jason Dick ’14, not Jordan Brown ’12. Furthermore, Marlee Rosenthal is actually a member of the Class of 2014, not the Class of 2015. Additionally, the club practices six or seven hours per week, not six or seven times per week.

Disturbance

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Thinking pink for breast cancer

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Day, Colleges against Cancer hosted a Pink Day last Wednesday and set up a table outside the Shapiro Campus Center. CAC encouraged everyone to wear pink and support a petition to give all women access to mammograms.

AMHERST, Mass.—Rabid skunks, raccoons and foxes are fairly common in Massachusetts, but health officials in Amherst are reporting that a sheep in town has tested positive for rabies.

Amherst animal welfare officer Carol Hepburn says the sheep was one of three kept in a pen owned by three families at a cohousing complex. The town was informed of the infected sheep Wednesday.

Town officials are recommending that anyone who had direct contact with the animal in the 14 days prior to Oct. 8 be evaluated to see if vaccination is needed.

Hepburn says it’s rare for farm animals to contract rabies, which is passed through saliva. She thinks the sheep got the viral disease from a wild animal that got into the pen.

The other two sheep have been quarantined.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Biotech, Healthcare and Science Forum

Explore careers in science and health-related organizations through direct exposure and discussions with current professionals in related fields. Sponsored by the Hiatt Career Center, the Biotech, Healthcare and Science Forum will feature an expert panel presentation followed by round table networking sessions for students, alumni and employer guests. This year’s theme—Discovery Without Borders—builds upon last year’s focus on translational research. The panelists will speak to the notion of removing boundaries across disciplines of science (i.e., biology, chemistry, business, etc.) to fuel discovery as well as international boundaries to move closer to a holistic scientific community. Today from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Hassenfeld Conference Center.

Passport to Sophomore Success

Having trouble choosing a major? Getting involved on campus? Questions about Study Abroad, internships or financial aid? Sophomore year is full of big decisions. Go to the Passport to Sophomore Success to speak

with representatives from the Hiatt Career Center, Study Abroad, Student Financial Services, Student Activities, Department of Community Living, Academic Services, Community Service and Experiential Learning. Plus, UDRs from all academic departments will be on hand to answer questions about majors and minors. Today from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Levin Ballroom.

A community college teaching career

Rob Jenkins, a 25-year community-college veteran and The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Two-Year Track” columnist will speak on Friday. In an interactive presentation, Jenkins will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of teaching at a community college and more, including how to tailor an application and résumé for two-year college jobs; how to ace the interview; what to expect once you land an offer; earning tenure or moving up into administration and using a community-college job as a “stepping-stone” to a university position.

Friday from 11 a.m. to noon in the Shapiro Campus Center room 236.

Archaeology lecture

The theme of duality is prevalent in the art of the peoples who met Columbus. The Taino, the indigenous population of the Dominican Republic, made pottery that symbolized several ideas at one time, depending on the viewer’s perspective. They combined representations of life and death, earth and sea and male and female in one ceramic vessel or stone figure. This event is sponsored by the Anthropology Department. Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. in Brown room 316.

Christie Hefner speaks

Christie Hefner ’74 will speak as part of the “Influential People Embodying the Brandeis Spirit” series. Hefner was CEO and chairman of Playboy Enterprises from 1988 until 2009.

Hefner will speak about entrepreneurship and how her career relates to the Brandeis spirit. This event follows upon last year’s event with retired Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and Prof. Anita Hill (Heller). Friday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall.

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Alumni describe prison lawsuit Union

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■ Michael Bien ’77 and

Jane Kahn ’77 brought a suit before the Supreme Court that addressed overcrowding in California prisons.

By TATE HERBERT JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Husband and wife attorneys Michael Bien ’77 and Jane Kahn ’77, this year’s Joshua A. Guberman Lecturers, spoke about their experience combating the overcrowding of and lack of mental health care in California prisons on Monday evening in Rapaporte Treasure Hall.

Bien and Kahn discussed their 21year legal battle against overcrowding in California prisons, beginning with a class-action lawsuit filed in 1990 by roughly 36,000 mentally ill prisoners and culminating in the United States Supreme Court’s decision to require California to reduce the number of inmates in its prisons.

Bien took the podium first to describe the initial lawsuit, which aimed to correct the poor conditions in California prisons, specifically for those with severe mental illness. The case was decided in the prisoners’ favor in 1995, and efforts were made to provide adequate mental health care.

However, said Bien in an interview with the Justice, by 2006, “It was clear that it wasn’t going to get fixed unless we also dealt with overcrowding.”

According to Bien, California prisons were “far worse than Abu Ghraib,” operating at 200 percent capacity in 2006.

Photographs shown at the lecture depicted gymnasiums filled with triple-stacked bunk beds, filthy cells containing only a mattress pad and blanket and what Bien described as “holding cages” containing prisoners waiting to get into the mental health unit. In her speech, Kahn called the conditions “degrading” and “inhumane.”

Kahn and Bien’s appeal to reduce overcrowding was granted by a special panel of three judges, according to California law.

The plan to reduce overcrowding includes parole reform but no sentencing reform, “which is what we really need,” said Kahn in an interview with the Justice.

The panel’s decision was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling in May of this year, and on Oct. 1, the Realignment Act took effect. The Act will eventually cut the state prison population by 40,000 to a total of 50,000 inmates, said Kahn, bringing the operating capacity to 137 percent by June 2013.

“I think we have a little bit more hope now than we’ve had in a long time,” said Bien of the results of the case. “There’s at least a path to fix things, but, day to day for our clients, there has been very little change.”

After the lecture, Bien and Kahn took questions from the audience that addressed the controversial role of the judicial branch in the ruling and calling the period that will follow it “a vast experiment.”

Said Kahn of the relationship of her experience at Brandeis to the

■ The Student Union will use the extension to recruit more candidates for the positions while resolving voting system issues.

By SARA DEJENE JUSTICE editor

JANEY ZITOMER/the Justice

A LONG BATTLE: Michael Bien ’77 (below) and Jane Kahn ’77 spoke about their lawsuit against prison overcrowding in California. case, Brandeis “challenged us to think about … how movements help society.”

“I think it’s great that they are able to do the sort of work … that helps people in a tangible way,” said Clair Weatherby ’12, who attended the lecture.

Gloria Cadder ’15 also expressed her interest in “such a modern and relevant case.”

Bien and Kahn, attorneys at Rosen, Bien & Galvan in San Francisco, were also presented with the first-ever Brandeis Alumni Activist Award on Monday, on behalf of the Brandeis Justice League and the Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice.

The lecture series, founded by the Guberman family in memory of prominent Boston attorney Joshua Guberman, brings a distinguished speaker or speakers in the field of law and social policy to Brandeis each year.

The event was co-sponsored by the Heller School of Social Policy and Management; the Legal Studies Program; the Brandeis Justice League; the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism; and the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life. Coordination of the lecture was aided this year by the Office of Alumni Relations.

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Obama appoints alum to health advisory board ■ Janet Kahn ’94 served

as the executive director of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium.

By shani abramowitz JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

President Barack Obama appointed Brandeis alumna Janet Kahn Ph.D. ’94 to the Advisory Board on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health this month, according to a White House press release issued Oct. 7.

The Advisory Board’s main agenda is to “develop policy and program recommendations, and advise the National Prevention Council on life-

style-based chronic disease prevention and management, integrative health care practices, and health promotion,” wrote Kahn in an email to the Justice.

The Council is a cabinet-level body chaired by the Surgeon General and was created by the Affordable Care Act in March 2010 to provide leadership and coordination at the federal level among all executive agencies regarding prevention, wellness and health promotion practices.

Kahn received her Ph.D. in Sociology—more specifically, in the areas of medical sociology, sexuality and gender and research methods—from Brandeis in 1994.

Kahn said that her degree and the training she received at Brandeis helped her get to this point in two

ways.

“The first is that my understanding of the challenges of prevention and health promotion are informed by a sociological perspective that is inherent in how I view the world,” she wrote. “The second way in which my Brandeis degree contributed to my appointment is that I find it difficult to believe I would have been appointed without a terminal degree relevant to the field.”

Kahn said she looks forward to serving in her recent appointment.

She wrote she plans on helping the Obama administration understand health care professions on a “more detailed level” and “how we might give Americans access to the best of what each has to offer.”

Kahn also wrote that she also

wants to “[help] Americans understand some of the value in the Affordable Care Act that has not yet been grasped—including access to certain preventive measures with no co-pay,” she wrote.

“When the White House contacted me to begin the vetting process, I was extremely excited by the possibility of being part of this,” said Kahn.

Kahn, who served as the executive director of Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium for the last seven years, said, “I was, and am, excited by the opportunity of serving on this board. ... I have advocated strongly for a shift in our approach to health care that focuses on prevention and health promotion and that holds a multi-dimensional ideal of wellness.”

Student Union Elections have been postponed one week due to the resignation of Jenny Lau ’14 from the Senior Representative to the Alumni Association seat, according to Student Union President Herbie Rosen ’12 in an interview with the Justice.

“Instead of running an additional election after the [one] that would have been [last Monday], we decided it would be easier to postpone the election another week so we could gather candidates for that position,” said Student Union Secretary Todd Kirkland ’13 in an interview with the Justice.

In addition, postponing elections by a week provides more time to recruit potential candidates, according to Kirkland. As of 4 p.m. yesterday, four students have signed up to run for the Racial Minority Senator seat and nine students are running for the three open Judiciary seats.

According to Kirkland, no students have signed up to run for the Charles River Senator seat, the Mods Senator seat or the Senior Representative to the Alumni Association seat.

When asked why Lau resigned from her seat, Rosen said “she just didn’t think it was something she wanted and it wasn’t in her priorities right now.”

Kirkland said that the three Judiciary seats must be filled and if they are not filled during the upcoming election, another one will be held until the positions are filled. However, if they are filled, no further elections will be held this semester, even if the other positions stay vacant.

Rosen sent an email to the residents of the Foster Mods and the Charles River Apartments encouraging students to run for their quad senator position.

“All of you have at least two class representatives, but it would be a shame for your Quads not to be represented in a group that affects our student environment,” wrote Rosen in the email.

Kirkland said that, so far, no one has responded showing interest.

He said the “next step” would be to approach individuals, asking if they themselves or students they know would be interested in running.

Rosen and Kirkland also said that the extra week will allow them to work out issues with the instant runoff voting system.

The system was thought to have resulted in two open seats that should have been filled, due to an inconsistency with voter intentions, according to a Justice examination.

The Student Union is obligated to use the system under contract, said Rosen.

According to Kirkland, Rosen contacted the company, which said that it would respond to Rosen.

“We’re still working on [the system],” said Rosen. “It’s a system we inherited. We’re just trying to do the best we can.”

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Alum reflects on experience in Rwanda ■ Noam Shuster ’11 used

her position as a Sorensen Fellow to aid victims of the Rwandan genocide.

By JENNIE BROMBERG JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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FOSTERING DISCUSSION: A panel of speakers discussed the problems of world hunger at the 24-Hour Famine last Saturday.

Students hold fast to raise awareness about hunger ■ The 24-Hour Famine also included a speaker from the NGO Oxfam and an advocacy workshop.

By LUKE HAYSLIP JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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STUDENT ACTIVISM: Participants in the 24-Hour Famine convened in the atrium. world poverty. The panel consisted of Dr. Sarita Bhalotra, associate professor in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and Women’s and Gender Studies Program; Pierrette Quintiliani, an adjunct professor with expertise in international field emergency, relief operations, conflict prevention and international humanitarian law; Heath Prince, a Ph.D. candidate at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and an adjunct lecturer in the Heller School’s Sustainable International Development Program; and Isabella Jean, an adjunct professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management who has consultant experience in international peacebuilding and development organizations primarily focusing on research and evaluation, facilitation, curriculum development and training.

Positive Foundations is the driving force behind the 24-Hour Famine, led by President Aditya Sanyal ’13, and Alexander. In an interview with the Justice, Positive Foundations Director of Operations Josilyn Sacks ’14 spoke of her longstanding interest in the Millennium Development Goals, a subgroup of the United Nations, which vows to end world poverty by 2015.

The U.N. describes the background of the coalition as: “The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [range] from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015.”

Alexander said, “We want to build a community of solidarity with the people suffering from extreme poverty in the Horn of Africa because the truth is that their famine was man-made. This event will broaden

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Last Friday and Saturday, Positive Foundations, in partnership with the Girl Effect and the Justice League, hosted the “24-Hour Famine,” a 24hour event in which Brandeis students congregated in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium. In what the Facebook event page described as an act of “fasting solidarity for the Horn of Africa,” students camped out with blankets, pillows and sleeping bags after they partook in poverty- and famine-related educational activities and heard from keynote speakers.

Highlights of the event included keynote speaker Will Fenton of Oxfam and an “Advocacy Workshop” with Cynthia Tschampl of RESULTS, a nonprofit organization and “a leading force in ending poverty in the United States and around the world,” according to the Facebook event page. Among other activities, participants decorated T-shirts and united in a candlelight vigil on the front steps of the SCC for a reflection and silent meditation.

Fenton, youth coordinator of the GROW campaign, which aims to more effectively supply food for a global population, spoke of food injustice in the world and of some of the many groups involved in the prevention of world hunger. Fenton referred to key portions of Oxfam, such as Sisters on the Planet, an organization teamed with Oxfam to help women around the world fight hunger, poverty- and climate change; the Rural Resilience Initiative, a program empowering rural households with integrated risk-management tools; and Feed the Future, an initiative aimed at halving the number of poverty and hunger-ridden individuals by 2015 not only through financial commitment, but also through innovation and entrepreneurship.

At the close of his presentation, Fenton stressed that awareness is the biggest step in ending world hunger and poverty and urged participants to get involved in some way, such as through hosting a Hunger Banquet; joining the CHANGE initiative, “a highly competitive national program that trains college students to become actively engaged with Oxfam America’s work”; or to join Action Corps, an offshoot of Oxfam focusing on improving life for impoverished persons on a local level.

Later in the afternoon, Positive Foundations Director of Policy Kate Alexander ’12 introduced a panel that spoke on many issues pertaining to

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our understanding of extreme hunger and poverty and inspire people to take action to make the world a safer, healthier [and] better place. We can save lives in minutes. If you can do so much with so little time, why not?”

In an interview with the Justice, Positive Foundations member Caroline Duchin ’13 spoke of her passion for the organization. Shortly after viewing an Invisible Children and Oxfam presentation, Caroline traveled to New York City with activists from Brandeis.

Along with 4,000 to 5,000 other young people, Caroline and her classmates slept outside and built structures reminiscent of Ugandan refugee settlements. The group congregated for a 30-minute silence in honor of those who faced poverty, oppression and death due to the war and genocide in Uganda. Commented Caroline, “It was the loneliest silence I had ever experienced.”

Wesley Papiernik ’14 offered some personal opinions into relevance of the 24 Hour Famine on the global situation regarding poverty and starvation. “This is a great event. It’s difficult for people to understand famine when food is so abundant here. Experiencing it for a day will help spread awareness,” he said.

Avi Aizenman ’13, a new member of Positive Foundations, spoke of her interest in social activism and her interest in the event.

“Once I actually started learning what this event [was] for, and the starvation in the Horn of Africa, it seemed like a really important event,” she said. “The fact that … [96] people signed up saying that they’d at least support the event on Facebook shows that the numbers are there. It is an important thing to at least become aware of.”

Last Tuesday, Noam Shuster ’11 spoke about her experiences volunteering in Rwanda with people affected by the genocide.

Shuster grew up in Neve Shalom/ Wahat Al Salam, Israel, a village where she said Israelis and Palestinians live peacefully together. In this environment, she was “constantly surrounded by peacemakers” who inspired her to work in an environment where she could help promote peace, she said.

This brought her to Rwanda, a country torn apart by genocide and whose population was left with emotional and physical damage. In 2009, Shuster became a Sorensen Fellow, a Brandeis initiative that gives a stipend to students to intern over the summer. This gave Shuster the resources to intern in Kigali, Rwanda with the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center.

The genocide in Rwanda took place from April to July 1994, where the Hutu majority murdered many people from the Tutsi minority, culminating in about 800,000 deaths from both sides, according to the Human Rights Watch.

During the internship, Shuster worked with victims of the genocide who were raped and contracted HIV. “Women who survived this horrifying act were actually dying from AIDS,” she explained. About 100,000 to 250,000 women were raped during the genocide, according to the United Nations.

In Rwanda, which Schuster said is about the same size as Maryland, the statistics show how everyone was affected by the genocide. She described how “every corner of the country has a memory.”

Shuster became a Davis Projects for Peace scholar, an initiative that grants students at a variety of colleges money to work on peace projects, and a World of Work fellow, a Brandeis program that gives

financial support for unpaid summer internships. These programs allowed Shuster to continue her work in Rwanda after graduating.

Over the summer, Shuster worked with youths who had HIV as a result of the genocide. The youths, who were from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds, worked together to write and produce a theater project. On the last day of the program, their parents and other relatives come and watch them perform.

Shuster explained that a key component of organizing youth programming was “working with a peer mentoring system.” She helped teach leadership skills to older youths, around 17 or 18 years old, who were then able to teach and be role models for the younger children, who were around 12 and 13.

In Rwanda, children must be told at age 12 if they have HIV. Many of the kids entered the program just after finding out, and they were not very educated about it. “A lot of the kids in the beginning of the summer program thought HIV meant death,” she explained. The peer-mentoring program allowed the older youths living with HIV to show the younger kids that they could still lead a healthy life with HIV. Even though Shuster brought together and educated HIV-infected youths from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds and helped many become strong leaders, she stressed that “there are a lot of problems in Rwanda still.”

“I don’t want you to think that it’s a perfect country,” Shuster said.

Shuster is taking the lessons she learned from how the Hutu and Tutsi coexist today and comparing them to possible peace-making situations in other countries, such as Israel. “They do have a lot of problems,” she explained. “But they are living side by side.”

In the future, Shuster plans to go back to Israel and get a master’s degree in public health and continue working on youth and women’s empowerment. “And,” she added, “I’m flying back [to Rwanda] on Thursday to continue working.”

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airing original programming from previous years, while still maintaining its status as a secured club.

According to the Student Union’s 2010 Constitutional Review Committee a secured club is one that is “essential to the main goals and purpose of the university and student body.”

At the time that BTV acquired its secured status, former BTV President Avi Kaufman ’03 commented to the Justice that the station “[had] three major components: ... movies, original programming and community programming.”

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A focus on film

The club also had a staff of approximately 40 undergraduate members, according to a 2003 Justice article.

Current President of BTV Ethan Mermelstein ’12 said the club now consists of 10 members and views its role quite differently.

As opposed to producing regular and original programming for the entire Brandeis community, BTV now serves to provide resources and equipment to students who independently produce their own projects. Such projects, some of which have been submitted to film festivals, are not necessarily shown to the Brandeis community.

Additionally, BTV functioned as a notable source of funding for one student’s senior thesis, according to Mermelstein.

“It is an outlet that facilitates people’s productions of their own creative projects. We train students who come here with their own ideas,” said Mermelstein.

To that end, “the vast majority of the time,” BTV allocates students baseline grants of $350 if they make a compelling case for starting a project, according to BTV’s treasurer Benedict Noero ’12.

For instance, BTV's spending over the last year has focused heavily on a project initiated by Noero last fall.

The film, “Granite City,” originally known by the title “Fat Night,” has already cost BTV over $7,000 since fall 2010, according to a list of BTV expenses from fiscal 2010 through the present obtained by the Justice from University Budget Analyst Stephen Costa.

Those expenses include rental equipment, film processing, actors and other production costs, according to the club’s documented spending.

That $7,000 figure does not include the nearly $500 that BTV has spent this semester toward fees to enter “Granite City” into numerous film festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival. This figure also excludes the $450 BTV paid to a cinematographer to assist with some of the project’s filming.

According to Mermelstein, this was part of BTV’s plans last year “to try to up the quality of student films instead of just us training students.”

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PRODUCING TV: BTV members Ted Levin ’10 (left) and Gdaly Berlin ’10 edited videos for the television station in 2007.

Away from television

Shea Riester ’12, former president and current programming director for BTV, says that the current board is “much less concerned with the TV aspect and much more concerned with the film production … and learning about making movies as opposed to making sure the channel is always running. We’ve just kind of shifted focus,” he said.

Although the club has shifted its focus away from maintaining the BTV television station, its inactivity can partially be attributed to technical difficulties with Media Technology Services that BTV had little control over, according to Mermelstein.

“The channel is manned by MTS, … so like for all of last year, it just was not on. … It was [on] maybe an hour on during the day,” said Mermelstein.

Representatives from MTS could not be reached for comment prior to printing.

BTV also officially controls its own YouTube account to upload its original content. However, according to Mermelstein, the club has “had issues with just passwords being handed down.”

As a partial fix, BTV has uploaded works, such as those completed with the video sketch group Little Hands, on other YouTube channels, according to Mermelstein and Noero.

According to Riester, “the BTV YouTube Channel is not of top importance to us. … It’s more about the production process.”

Today's BTV is also markedly different from the 2002 version of the club in its organizational structure.

Using secured funds

BTV, like other campus clubs, submits its expense information online through the SUMS system.

From there, according to Costa, the Union treasurer approves of the expenditure and passes the information along to Costa, who in turn approves the spending and submits it to Vice President for Students and Enrollment Keenyn McFarlane, or occasionally another senior official, for final approval so that it can be processed by the appropriate office.

BTV’s constitution, last updated in 2007, establishes a spending system in which a general board must approve all expenditures proposed to it by a separate executive board. However, the two-tiered board system that was in place when BTV attained secured status is no longer in place.

According to Mermelstein, “There isn’t so much a general board because two years ago, the majority of the club graduated.”

During the spring 2011 semester, the organization was run by one six-student board, and this semester only three students— Mermelstein, Riester and Noero—remain at the club’s helm.

Noero elaborated on that topic.

“Our e-board kind of is our general board right now,” he said.

The club’s shifted focus has also resulted in certain spending that appears inconsistent with its original purposes.

For instance, an April 2011 entry shows BTV spending $327.78 on “hooded BTV sweatshirts.”

The Union’s constitution, however, only specifies that secured clubs are entitled to “the guarantee to receive a reasonable level of funding to support necessary operating expenses.”

In February 2011, a charge of $1,595.30 was approved for BTV to cover the cost of multiple flights to Berlin. Noero, Mermelstein, Riester and Aaron Winkler ’11 went to the Berlin International Film Fes-

tival “as press members sent by the [University],” stated Noero.

According to him, the purpose of their attending the festival was, “primarily to see and view movies and to make connections for Brandeis, which includes BTV. … We were hoping that [we] would meet people, distributors, anything that would be able to help BTV students.”

However, Mermelstein stated that, unlike some of the other BTV members who traveled to Berlin, he did not use BTV funds for his plane ticket because he “personally thought that that was not something that BTV needed to pay for,” although he acknowledged that “there was a discussion and it was agreed upon [by the e-board] that it was.”

The Justice is a secured club that uses SAF funds for printing purposes only.

Other secured clubs, like WBRS, also use funds in order to send members on trips. This month, according to Alex Chum ’12, business director of WBRS, several members of WBRS went to the College Music Journal’s music marathon and film festival in New York for workshops about running college radio stations and to recruit bands to play at Brandeis.

“We do post on our website from the event and we do keep a lot of contact information from the bands that we see from CMJ, and we might end up booking them,” says Chum. “There are bands that we have met at CMJ and that have come here.”

Mermelstein stated that he sees maintaining the quality of BTV products as a goal of the coming year. “We have a solid group of freshmen. …

We want to just be sure that they’re going to be active in the future,” he said.

—Nashrah Rahman and Robyn Spector contributed reporting.

one of the things that was kind of getting in the way was the governing aspect of it,” said Leisman. The GAC is now “much better able” to fulfill its original goal, he said.

The changes stem mostly from a dispute during rush this semester, when one organization accused another of having a party on a night when rush events were prohibited by the GAC. “During rush, there were a few complications and mix-ups with dates and whatnot because we pushed back our beginning of rush to after Orientation so that there would be no conflicts,” said Voronoff.

There were also instances of rules being put in place by the GAC that “were simply not followed,” said Leisman. It was “hard” for the GAC to enforce its rules because it did not have the necessary powers, he explained.

Instead of resolving the conflict within the GAC, Voronoff said she and Co-president Leisman decided to bring the disagreement to the presidents of all the Greek organizations as a way to “nip it in the bud.”

Greek organizations then decided that “it would be effective to have the heads of the organizations involved, who kind of expediate [sic] any conflict resolution as well as regulating rules of rush like our recruitment process,” said Voronoff.

The Council of Presidents resolved the original conflict and will continue in a regulatory and disciplinary capacity.

“The GAC’s purpose has always been to increase awareness of Greek Life on Brandeis and form a line of communication for students, faculty, and administration,” wrote Nick Petrocchi '12, president of GAC member organization Alpha Delta Phi, in an email to the Justice.

When the GAC tried to use “disciplinary means,” however, “this system was deemed inferior to the GAC’s original purpose,” wrote Petrocchi.

The GAC plans to promote Greek unity through events such as Greek Week, expansion of Greek life and philanthropy events, said the co-presidents.

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VERBATIM | T.S. ELIOT Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

ON THIS DAY…

FUN FACT

In 1867, the United States took possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.

The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile national monument.

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MEET THE PRESS: Students from the first graduating class started the Justice as a way to write about and discuss the issues which were most important to the student body during the University’s earliest years.

Finding a voice

in the fifties

ORIGINAL STAFF: Phylis Acker ’52 wrote for the paper in addition to working as its secretary.

STUDENT LEADER: Paul Levenson ’52 served as editor in chief during the paper’s first years.

Early students founded the Justice as an outlet for opinions

By Janey zitomer JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Simple desktops and black-and-white photos replaced the high-tech laptops and fancy digital cameras of today. It was the era of the printing press, before Google spreadsheets and technology as we know it were born. In 1949, the first Brandeis students were at the mercy of available technology as they sought to create the University’s first newspaper.

And yet, the earliest records of the Justice reveal an unsurprising similarity between life at Brandeis in 1949 and today.

Students and faculty were at no loss for words. Just a year after the University was founded, students started the Justice as an outlet to voice their opinions.

“I thought it was important to have something as a vehicle for a collective student voice,” said Paul Levenson ’52, a member of the first graduating class and the editor in chief during the first year of the paper.

Despite the major task ahead of them, students needed little help from the administration as they organized the pilot issue of the paper.

“We didn’t ask anyone’s permission. We said we want to have a newspaper and asked for a few dollars. We couldn’t have done it without financial support [of the University],” Levenson said of starting the paper.

Lacking the advanced technology of today, 35 of the 107 students in the first class wrote articles, edited content, managed the paper or helped with the production in some way.

“We actually, in some cases, went to the print shop,” Levenson said. “We and the printer laid out the columns on what they

call stone. It’s really kind of an ancient art, long gone now. Each edition was kind of a combination of manual labor and journalism,” he said.

Over the first few months, the paper’s header physically moved from the top of the page to its side and back to the top. The logo started out as three single flames. The motto was changed from “Published by the Students of Brandeis University” to “Published Weekly by the Students of Brandeis University.”

Beginning with just four pages in length (six on a good day), early issues of the Justice reflect the views of the Brandeis community at a particularly fragile state in its development.

As Brandeis faculty tried to produce and maintain a new intellectual environment, students at the newspaper tried to record their actions and match them with their own opinions.

With a multitude of issues facing the newly formed institution, students tackled the topics most important to them in the shaping of the University.

They addressed the organization of the first Student Union and other on-campus clubs, new facilities and curriculum improvements with comic relief.

The earliest pages of the Justice were filled with ghost-like cartoon figures, black and white photo collages and playson-words. “Brandecdotes,” “As I See It” and “Crony-logic-al” (a column featuring a typical Brandeis schedule and cartoon of a Popeye the Sailor figure wearing a hat and holding a cigar) occupy many of the paper’s early editions.

The original glossy, white pages were riddled with tiny ads for taxicab services, dry

cleaners and camera shops.

Levenson remembers a particular headline from his time at Brandeis that read “Group to Present Play Arena Style.”

“The reason I remember that was because I was the only one in the play,” Levenson laughed. Occurrences like these were both real and specific to Brandeis’ inaugural class.

But beneath the paper’s comic surface laid the issues most important to students during the University’s primitive years.

The paper reflected the views of an opininated group of American youth.

Articles detailed students’ dissatisfaction with Brandeis’ motto, and students wrote that “‘Truth Even Unto Its Innermost Parts’ just doesn’t apply.”

The simple truths of everyday campus life didn’t interest many students, who had just tasted the complete, uninhibited freedom of college life. The Class of 1952 knew the power they held with the freedom of a newly formed press at their fingertips. They were the University’s guinea pigs. And they were focused on a bigger picture.

“Someone once said that the 1960s started in 1950 at Brandeis.” said Phylis Acker ’52, a writer and the first secretary of the Justice.

“We were hippies of our generation. We grew up in an atmosphere of fear and wondering what our futures were going to be like. Now that the war was over, we wanted to do it our way,” she said.

Students therefore wrote opinionated pieces to help shape the University’s first years. They proposed a new mail delivery system in a letter to the editor, announced the selection of the owl as Brandeis’ official mascot and discussed the controversy over a publicly displayed Christmas tree.

The passion and opinions of the students were not always welcomed by the University staff, who were trying desperately to increase enrollment.

Though the paper started out as an extension of the University’s Public Relations Committee, as students expressed their displeasure in being so closely associated with the University’s public relations, the role of the paper began to change.

“The University was willing to bend to please the students as long as they could keep their public eye in the right direction,” Acker said.

Levenson spoke of David Berkowitz, one of the original Brandeis staff members, who cared deeply about both the University and its newspaper and went on to serve as the assistant to the president, director of University Planning and a professor of History and Political Science.

“He used to call me into his office and lecture me about proper journalism. ‘Don’t print anything that may reflect adversely on the University,’” Levenson recalled him saying.

However, it didn’t take long for the faculty and students to find common ground as the role of the paper evolved and the University grew.

As the paper moved from an extension of the Public Relations Committee to an independent paper, students found a satisfactory way to express their opinions on the University’s earliest issues.

“I will remember the experience forever,” Levenson said.

“The first class was really unique. We all had personal stories about why we were there and none of it made a lot of sense,” he said.

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WORLDVIEW: PARIS

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Parisian persona

WINE AND DINE: Sujin Shin ’13 enjoys French wine while out in Beaune, France.

Sujin Shin ’13 explores the French way of life By sujin shin special to the Justice

PHOTOS COURTESY OF SUJIN SHIN

PARIS IN LIGHTS: The Eiffel Tower, located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, lights up in the evenings, bringing tourists to visit.

THE FRENCH TERRAIN: Shin visited the Parc Montsouris, a public park located in Paris, during one of her outings in France.

The essence of Paris is sublimity.

I can barely take a leisurely walk on these worn, cobblestone streets without distraction. At every corner I find something wonderful that makes me stop in my tracks: an 800-year-old gothic cathedral, a 17thcentury marble fountain, a baroque theater topped in gold and the occasional Parisian Adonis in a bowtie.

But with sublimity comes intimidation. While Paris is excruciatingly beautiful, it is also unsettling and overwhelming. I’d thought the speed of life would be akin to the bustle of New York City, but I was wrong; it’s slower than that of New York, but colored with more nonchalance and recklessness.

It was vain of me to think that I could just move here and expect the Parisian rhythm of life to conveniently resolve to my own personal andante. But I accepted this challenge and made it my goal to become a real Parisian.

Unfortunately, I was never cut out for city life. Sure, I’ve lived five minutes away from New York since I was four, but I have never been able to handle too much at a time. There was always the comfortable, sleepy tempo of my hometown just beyond the George Washington Bridge to come back to at night. But in Paris, though there is some semblance of metric structure, if you’re a proper Parisian, you must ignore it.

It’s an unspoken rule: No one regards the stoplights and walkway signals. No matter what the color is on the other side of the street, an impatient Parisian will weave expertly between the Peugeot sedans, carelessly flicking the butt of her cigarette onto the ground with her nose in the air and a wooden expression on her face.

I admired her daring and highfashion boots. I wanted to be like her. One reckless afternoon, I attempted to imitate her nonchalance and by crossing the street on my own terms, but being a flatfooted slowpoke from the suburbs, I was almost hit by a runaway Renault van that totally disregarded the red light.

Behind me, a particularly irate art student who had seen my failed attempt at traffic finesse, yelled “CONNARD!” (a rather offensive French word) at the car speeding away. He looked at me and said in his best— but worst—American accent, “That man is crazy, non?” I nodded jerkily through my double heart attack, feeling more un-Parisian than ever.

Ever since I was young, I idolized Parisians so fantastically from afar; to me, all French were softly discoursing every night in smoke-filled salons with impressionist paintings on the walls and fine wine in hand.

So many heady philosophers and brooding writers lived and were inspired here, and so many of the

greatest artists and musicians found their genius here.

I felt like I didn’t fit in the ranks of these enlightened and beautiful people. I discovered, of course, that not all Parisians are geniuses and philosophers, but you do need a certain confidence to relate to them. To interact with Parisians, you need to be a suave talker. If you’re a study abroad student with a meager four years of French instruction, they will quickly grow impatient.

Therefore, Parisians scare me.

And no, I don’t mean that the people are cold and unwilling to be friendly (in fact, I discovered that they tend to be more personable than city dwellers in the United States if you’re lost or trying to find something). I mean that I was and still am too shy and insecure about my French to start any interaction.

I’d struggled for a few weeks, wanting desperately to feel like a real Parisian but also being unable to resist being an embarrassing tourist.

But one typical gray morning at Montmartre, exactly one month into the semester, I pondered my situation over a tiny cup of coffee and had a small epiphany.

As I sat in a small café, breathing in the savory aroma of freshly baked baguettes, I mindlessly stared into the distant Parisian horizon, at a gently serrated line except for one tall building off to the left of the city.

After a long minute, I slowly realized that I was looking at the Eiffel Tower.

It was a strange emotion, seeing this striking monument of French creativity and ingenuity, but feeling as if it had been a part of my view for my entire life. And yet it wasn’t a negative experience: there was no disenchantment, no wisps of apathy, only contentment.

I sat at the café with my coffee and my attention slowly unfocused from the stunning historic monuments and adjusted to the quotidian sights and sounds: a young girl with golden ringlets clutching her mother’s jacket, the distant harmonies of a jazz band at the steps of SacréCoeur, the confused tourist with a giant map going the wrong way.

There is a certain subtlety to the joy I feel in living in Paris now. In the beginning I felt only wonder, awe and crippling veneration. But it’s not that my senses have been jaded to the grandeur and quaint charm of Paris. It could never disappoint me. My love for Paris is an evolving mix of deep appreciation and delight.

I think my relationship with Paris must be comparable to the experience of a smitten newlywed slowly growing to love her spouse in a deeper and more significant way. Now if only my marriage wasn’t doomed to end during the final days of the fall semester.

Editor’s note: Sujin Shin ’13 is a former staff writer for the Justice.

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Emily Kraus, Editor in Chief Nashrah Rahman, Managing Editor Brian N. Blumenthal, Production Editor Hillel Buechler, Deputy Editor Alana Abramson, Rebecca Blady, Bryan Flatt, Rebecca Klein, Asher Krell, Tess Raser and Robyn Spector, Associate Editors Sara Dejene and Andrew Wingens, News Editors Dafna Fine, Features Editor Eitan Cooper, Forum Editor Jeffrey Boxer, Sports Editor Wei-Huan Chen and Ariel Kay, Arts Editors Yosef Schaffel and Tali Smookler, Photography Editors Nan Pang, Layout Editor Marielle Temkin, Copy Editor Cody Yudkoff, Advertising Editor

Trouble with BTV The University’s television station, BTV, has been a secured club since 2002 and receives between $17,000 and $20,000 in student funds each year. This board is alarmed by two problems with the station as it currently functions.

First, the BTV that exists on campus today is markedly different from the one that was secured by the student body nine years ago and is no longer deserving of its elevated status as a secured club—or the privilege to spend money in the unique manner that comes along with it. While the BTV of 2002 produced and aired a variety of regular programming and events for the University community, the club in its current form is almost exclusively focused on spending its secured funds on individual students’ projects, some of which are highly costly and, even after several semesters in production, have yet to be shared with the community at large.

Second, the bodies that were meant to govern BTV’s spending are no longer present. According to the club’s constitution, BTV should have an executive board to propose expenditures and a general board to approve them.

However, today BTV is run by just three students who control all of the club’s funding allocations.

These two developments have resulted in troubling spending patterns.

Last semester, the club spent approximately $19,000. While some of its expenditures were legitimate, it is disconcerting that thousands of dollars were spent on items that run contrary to BTV’s original purpose.

A large percentage of this sum includes payments club members’ for trip to Germany for a film festival, actors for a club leader’s video submitted to multiple film competitions and club sweatshirts.

Secured clubs are guaranteed money from the Student Activities Fund because they are “essential to the main goals and purpose of the university and student body,” according to the 2010 Constitutional Review Committee.

Spending needs moderation For instance, WBRS has regular new programming and helps organize wellattended concerts. Student Sexuality Information Services educates the student body and provides counseling resources. The Justice is also a secured club, and its SAF funding goes only toward its printing expenses.

Both secured and unsecured clubs draw money from the same source, though secured clubs have primary access to funds. This semester, unsecured clubs that serve the student body in tangible and visible ways did not receive funding for many of their activities. It is unfair that clubs sponsoring innovative and important programming are unable to receive funds for those projects while a secured organization is using so much money with so little to show for it.

Furthermore, the shift in purpose mentioned above has also resulted in a lack of visible and readily accessible original content in the past couple of years.

The channel’s schedule shows that no content produced after 2009 will be aired this month, and the content aired currently is rerun every day. If BTV’s members feel that their time and effort are better spent producing individual projects to be submitted to film festivals or distributed by means other than the television station, then the club’s purpose has changed from its original intent. And while there is nothing wrong with having such a club on campus, it should not be secured.

BTV has been acting irresponsibly and in a way that disadvantages other students. At a time when the entire campus is trying to cut back on major expenses and do more with less money, particularly when it comes to club expenditures, it is wrong that a secured organization seems to be taking advantage of its position and using student funds in a way that benefit only a few students when that money could be put to better use elsewhere.

Inconvenient hours Every Sunday morning, students find themselves inconveniently barred from Einstein Bros. Bagels until 5 p.m. that evening. The bagel and coffee store’s less-than-desirable hours of operation illustrate the University’s larger and pervasive issue of leaving students with limited dining options on weekends. It seems this problem has gone largely unacknowledged by the administration, and we encourage them to change the weekend dining hours.

Einstein’s is a prominent and popular feature on campus. The reduced hours on weekend mornings are perhaps most inconvenient. By opening later on Sunday afternoons, students, particularly those in Lower Campus, are forced to trek to the Provisions on Demand Market for their on-the-go coffee needs. Though students can also go to the Village Provisions on Demand Market in lieu of Einstein’s, the store is

Address student dining needs closed on Saturdays and opens on Sundays at 4 p.m. Saturday nights further pose a dilemma for students, as many dining establishments close early.

However, Senator for the Class of 2014 Ricky Rosen recently helped to temporarily expand the P.O.D. Market hours from midnight to 2 a.m. on Saturdays.

The longer hours will be instituted for a trial run from Nov. 5 to Nov. 19. We encourage Rosen to continue his efforts to expand dining hours, eventually working to include the other dining services as well.

On weekends, the dining services have several overlapping hours of inaccessibility. Dining Services needs to recognize and address that students’ dining needs extend beyond the hours that have been allotted to these dining establishments.

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OP-BOX Quote of the Week “Someone once said the 1960s started in 1950s at Brandeis.”

— Phylis Acker ’52, writer and the first secretary of the Justice on her generation of Brandeis students.

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Brandeis Talks Back Fans of clothing retailer Urban Outfitters might not be surprised to learn that the chain is currently facing legal trouble.

The store is no stranger to legal controversy; within the past year, Urban Outfitters has been accused of copying the jewelry designs of independent designers and of using underaged models in sexually suggestive advertising campaigns. This time around, it is Urban Outfitters’ line of “Navajo” goods—including skirts, tops, jewelry, flasks and panties—that has the Native American nation and its lawyers preparing to take them to court.

Legally, Urban Outfitters is in violation of copyright laws and potentially an act that forbids retailers from misrepresenting goods as having been produced by Native Americans if those goods were not. Culturally, Urban Outfitters is guilty of quite a bit more. No Native Americans—Navajo or not—were consulted in the design, production or marketing of the Navajo line of goods. Their patterns are vaguely Southwestern but hardly uniquely or authentically Navajo, though they are marketed as such. The inclusion of a flask in the line of goods has caused discomfort as well, given the stereotypical association of Native Americans with alcoholism. And, as of yet, no representatives from Urban Outfitters have reached out to the Navajo nation to open up dialogue. All of these concerns speak to the insensitivity of Urban Outfitters but are not, in my opinion, the most grievous of the retailer’s offenses.

Firstly, the possibility of using the traditional dress of any culture relies upon the privilege of the wearer. The phenomenon of “cultural cross-dressing” is mostly the result of colonialism, in which other cultures are often appropriated for the benefit of colonial forces. In this case, American corporate entities are benefitting from the culture of Navajo people without offering any possibility of benefit to the Navajo themselves; if that itself is not enough of an abuse, consider that monied American interests were much of the motivation for the destruction of Native American people in the first place.

Secondly, it seems to me on some level perverse that a consumer can, for lack of a better term, put on and take off Navajo culture without experiencing any of the burdens that come with the wearing of traditional dress for the Navajo people themselves. When a shopper at Urban Outfitters wears a skirt with vaguely Native American patterns represented as Navajo, he or she can experience at least a poor facsimile of Navajo culture without having to endure the racism, humiliation and marginalization that have historically come with being Navajo. I don’t feel that it’s fair to appropriate the parts of a people’s culture that excite us with an exotic look or fashionable flair without sparing at least some consideration for what the originators of those items feel when they themselves inhabit them. It is a privilege to be able to slip in and out of a race and culture—a privilege that the Navajo people do not have.

More disturbing yet is Urban Outfitters’ silence on the subject. Though Urban Outfitters could use this opportunity to reach out to the Navajo people to open dialogue on their culture and its place in broader American culture, the retailer seems prepared to wait quietly for the court battle. This is not surprising when considering that Urban Outfitters’ interests are primarily monetary. It drives home the brutality of its appropriation of Navajo culture for profit.

It is difficult to say where to draw the line between admiration of another culture via adoption of some traditional patterns or dress and cultural cross-dressing. I personally think that the urge to form codified distinctions is one that should be resisted, as it tends to reduce complicated subjects to simplistic terms that do not accurately represent the reality of the problem.

Yet I do feel that there are ways in which cultural traditions can be adopted respectfully and tactfully. For one, I would involve members of the culture from which I wished to adopt in the process of creation and would not exclude them from profit were the items to be sold. Secondly, I would resist the temptation to render out authenticity and uniqueness in favor of better sales. But I believe that the most important step toward respectful adoption of traditional Navajo images that Urban Outfitters has skipped is listening. So long as Urban Outfitters refuses to listen to the people it uses for profit, it won’t be receiving a penny from me.

What have your experiences been with Dining Services this year?

Rachel Goldenberg ’13 “I haven’t had any. I live in Ridgewood.”

Nicholas Medina ’14 “The food is good, but the hours can be inconvenient.”

Christina Marcelus ’14 “It’s been inconsistent.”

Matt Zunitch ’13 “I’ve been disappointed.”

—Compiled by Alana Abramson Photos by Tess Raser/ the Justice

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READER COMMENTARY Senate Log should be comprehensive To the Editor: On behalf of the Student Union, I appreciate the fact that there is a Justice reporter present at every senate meeting. It’s nice to have a weekly Senate Log in the paper, and hopefully readers find it informative. However, I don’t think last week’s Senate Log lived up to its purpose—the purpose which I assume is “to inform.”

The reporter neglected to mention an entire report by the Director of Executive Affairs Abby Kulawitz on the progress of University Committees, and how 90 students applied for those positions— the most applicants we’ve ever had. In addition to my comments on my Sid Wainer visit, I also announced that Christie Hefner was coming to campus, and yet I saw no mention of this in the Senate Log. Are neither of these issues news? I have been told that these facts were cut because space was an issue, but yet you still had plenty of space for a lengthy and somewhat out of context quote by our treasurer.

Now, I am sure there could have been a shorter and more efficient way to sum up what he said. And while his quote might have worked well with an editorial, shouldn’t the Senate Log not have an angle?

Isn’t it meant to inform its audiences. I would appreciate a more comprehensive and objective viewpoints on the proceedings of the Senate.

—Herbie Rosen ’12 The writer is the Student Union President.

Discourage club’s promotion of hookah To the Editor: I couldn’t agree more with Hillel Buechler’s column. During the promotion leading up to the Hookah event in September, I wrote on the event’s Facebook page my objections to University and Jewish communal money’s use to purchase and serve poison to students. The answer I received from the event’s organizers claimed that hookah is a “huge component of Israeli culture.” What an impoverished view of culture! Food, art, dance, music, film: These are the aspects of Israel’s culture Zionist groups should seek to promote if the goal is to connect students to their so-called homeland.

If bribing students to love Israel with controlled substances is the only way, perhaps the problem is with Israel, not with University students.

I whole-heartedly encourage any organization granting money for programing on college campuses to stipulate that the money not be spent on any form of alcohol or tobacco.

—Ethan Goldberg ’12

Report was appropriate response

To the Editor: As the Chair of the ad hoc Committee on Alcohol and Drug Policy, I was disappointed with the editorial board’s reactions to our report. I was particularly concerned by your suggestion that we need not be concerned with the broader issues and, perhaps, should focus only on the minority of students who engage in the most problematic behavior.

During committee deliberations, I was reminded of a piece of traditional wisdom from the Talmud, “One who saves a single life, saves the world.”

Thankfully, only a small proportion of Brandeis students require hospitalization for alcohol and drug problems. But the small numbers do not absolve the community of responsibility. Research estimates are that nearly 2,000 college students die in alcohol-related incidents each year. We at Brandeis would be irresponsible if we did not think about how to prevent such tragedies. The problems connected with misuse of alcohol and drugs go beyond their direct impact on those who misuse or abuse substances and affect the broader community as well. During Pachanga last year, students’ actions disrupted not only the Brandeis community, but because ambulances had to be called in from surrounding areas, our neighbors as well.

Brandeis is not every university. Our mission was framed by values that emphasize excellence in scholarship and a concern with social justice.

These values make it imperative that we care about the health and safety of our community and that we apply “truth unto its innermost parts” to every corner of the university.

The report provides a framework for thinking about alcohol and drug issues and was developed, in part, based on recommendations of experts who study the problem at campuses across the country. The recommendations were designed to help administrators, faculty, and students find ways to enhance our current response to these issues.

I appreciate the Justice’s role in promoting discussion of alcohol and drug issues and hope that you will support efforts by our new Senior Vice President, Andrew Flagel, to ensure that the campus environment reflects our values.

—Leonard Saxe, Ph.D. The writer is a Klutznick professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and the Chair of the Alcohol and Drug Committee.

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Cut President’s salary in crisis Philip

Gallagher Back to basics

Since the economic recession began, companies of all types, from Fortune 500 corporations to nonprofit organizations, have suffered revenue losses and financial cutbacks. One would expect the chief executives and presidents, especially of the nonprofit organizations, to start reducing their large salaries and hunkering down to weather the storm and preserve the quality of their firm. Surprisingly, this has not been the case. In particular, president’s have been earning incredibly high salaries while their schools’ budgets have suffered.

Data from the Chronicle of Higher Education shows that presidential salaries have grown at a shocking rate since the 2007-2008 academic year. At doctoral-granting private universities, such as Brandeis, the average president’s salary has increased by an appalling 20.3 percent to $582,661. At Brandeis specifically, former President Jehuda Reinharz earned a base salary of $487,352, “other reportable compensation” of $101,457 and deferred compensation of $825,790 in the 2009 calendar year, according to Brandeis’ Federal tax filings.

A variety of schools, including Brandeis, have made substantial cutbacks to their programs in order to make ends meet during the financial recession. The fact that few to no reductions were made to presidents’ salaries is shocking. Take Arizona State University at Tempe, for instance.

During the 2008-2009 academic year, the school had to make significant cuts to its staff and academic programs. According to an article from the March 16, 2009 issue of The New York Times, the school eliminated 500 jobs, 48 programs and hundreds of teaching assistants. The president, Michael Crow, received $709,196 in total compensation for the 2008-2009 year. For the 2010-2011 year, his total cost of employment was $728,350.

It’s unfortunate and, in my opinion, a rather poor reflection on his character that he did not decide to give any part of his large compensation back to the university to preserve some of those lost jobs.

Similar trends can be found at other public universities. The president of the University of Central Florida received a total compensation of $800,703 in the 2009-2010 year. A March 22 article from MSNBC article indicates that, in Pennsylvania, the governor is proposing cuts totaling $625 million to institutes of higher education.

Schools that would be affected, including Tem-

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ple University and Pennsylvania State University, paid their presidents $707,947 and $800,592, respectively, in the 2009-2010 year.

At Brandeis, substantial cutbacks were made during the recession in an attempt to stabilize its debt. Besides originally planning to close the Rose Art Museum, the University stopped contributing to the retirement accounts of faculty and staff for a year, saving $7.4 million out of an $8.9-million deficit, according to a May 21, 2009 article in The New York Times. The University also laid off 76 employees in 2009, as reported in January 2010 by BrandeisNOW. Reinharz’s base pay for that one year was enough to have preserved several jobs. One would have expected former President Reinharz’s salary to be lowered in accordance with the funding cuts made throughout the University. I do understand that it is difficult to make compensation changes once contracts are signed. However, in the case of Brandeis, former President Reinharz received a new contract in June 2008, right at the beginning of the recession.

During the midst of the crisis, Reinharz did say that he donated to a charitable gift fund started by a group of professors to prevent staff lay-

offs. Furthermore, he indicated that he and other senior administrators made regular donations to the University, according to a Jan. 13, 2009 article in the Justice. In addition, Reinharz also willingly reduced his salary in order to maintain the Rose Museum. These acts are admirable, but I don’t believe they fully justify Reinharz’s high salary. During financial difficulties, it is the chief executive who should first make sacrifices as an example of effective leadership. I’m not completely convinced that Reinharz did this.

The standard donation to the charitable fund was one percent of the faculty’s salary, which, assuming that Reinharz respected this standard, is rather small taken out of $487,352.

I consider it most appropriate for the individual with the highest salary to financially sacrifice first, and I’m sure it couldn’t hurt professional morale for university staff and faculty to see salaries cuts made at the highest administrative levels in addition to the lowest. In the future, senior administrators and college trustees ought to consider cuts from the president’s salary as an option to reduce debt in an economic crisis. It may not cure all of a university’s financial woes, but it will certainly help.

Saudi rights victory is questionable

By Ula Rutkowska Justice contributing writer

The recent decision by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to grant women the right to vote and run in the 2015 municipal election is an enormous step forward for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. However, the likelihood of there being any impact as a result of this decision having any impact is questionable.

To this day, there has never been a greater overhaul of exclusionary laws against women in Saudi Arabia, thus making the decision the biggest step for women’s rights in Saudi Arabian history.

It is an enormous success for women’s rights activists internationally. The decision appears to be the result of continuing protests, the Arab Spring, Saudi Arabian social media and the campaign to prevent Saudi Arabia from being an international joke. However, it is suspected that the king considered giving women the right to vote the path of least resistance; it takes attention away from the campaign to make the Shura (the Saudi Arabian parliament) elected and not appointed.

Women in Saudi Arabia have consistently been refused the right to participate in most aspects of social life and society. In order to travel or do anything in the public sphere, women are required to be accompanied by a male guardian referred to as a mahram. In restaurants and

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banks, women are forced to occupy substandard areas and experience inferior customer service.

Additionally, they are not allowed to transport themselves, as they don’t have the right to drive a car.

Although the law is obviously a step in the right direction, it is questionable whether it will actually affect the lives of women in Saudi Arabia.

Women will not be able to vote or run for election until 2015, which means that there is no immediate gratification. Additionally, despite the fact that women will soon be able to vote, this new law does not change the way men view women in society. Saudi Arabia remains totally male-dominated and is not open to the possibility of women and men interacting consistently on a professional basis.

Will women actually have the courage to vote and run for office? In the male-dominated world that is Saudi Arabia, women lack the ability to participate in social life, let alone publicly contribute to policy.

If a woman is in a situation where she wants to vote but a predominate male in her life refuses her the right to do so, will she actually have the courage to defy her culture? This is not to say that I doubt women have the mental capacity to challenge male dominance, but I do think that it might be incredibly challenging to use their right to vote simply because of Saudi Arabian culture.

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Although there is a lot of criticism of the reasoning behind the decision, it is still a positive change that should be celebrated.

The very passage of the law means that there had to have been a movement actively pushing for it, so as long as women in Saudi Arabia continue to push for rights it is possible that they will eventually gain equality in other areas as well.

I am curious to see what is next for women in Saudi Arabia. These new laws are not completely satisfactory. It is necessary that women continue to pursue equality and not consider this law their concluding victory. Hopefully, women will continue to tackle other unjust laws that discriminate against their abilities to participate in society in the same ways that men can.

At Brandeis, the campaign for women’s rights focuses more on reconciling gender roles as opposed to total right’s equality. In the United States, women have had the right to vote and run in elections for decades, so the advances for women that we fight for are totally different from those of countries like Saudi Arabia. Even so, we should appreciate any positive social change.

If women can attain rights in an oppressive regime like Saudi Arabia, then it is possible for other necessary changes to occur globally. In a certain sense, Saudi Arabia expresses the necessity of continuing to express opposition to constructed limitations on citizens.

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Shalit deal poses challenging questions

By DAVID CLEMENTS special to the justice

Nobody in his or her right mind would give up one thousand of anything in exchange for one. It would not even enter serious consideration.

After getting out of class last Tuesday afternoon, I went back to my usual seat in the Shapiro Campus Center library and checked Facebook, as I do too many times a day. Instead of the normal chatter, my newsfeed was bombarded with statuses about the historic and unexpected prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and the Israeli government.

Reports claimed that Israel would release over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, who was captured in 2006 during a cross-border raid by Palestinian terrorists on an International Defense Force base in Southern Israel. Shalit has been held in Hamas captivity for the last five and a half years and has been denied visitation by the International Red Cross and other non-governmental organizations.

After many rounds of failed negotiations, one must ask, “Why now?” Why did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Oct. 11, 2011, over 1,900 days after Shalit’s capture, agree to such a deal?

Did Hamas drastically adjust its offer? Or did Netanyahu come to a realization that this is exactly what Israel needs now, more than ever?

Following a summer of internal unrest, during which protests against high housing costs and other social issues swept through the state, Netanyahu might have wanted to distract Israeli citizens from his inability to properly address other problems.

Or maybe he wants to prove to the world that he is ready to negotiate with “the enemy” after all and is willing to make very tough sacrifices for peace.

Or perhaps Netanyahu felt the need to take advantage of any window that is currently open, given the uncertainty of the Arab Spring: If Shalit isn’t released now, there may never be another opportunity to secure his return.

Whatever way you look at it, Netanyahu and the Israeli Cabinet were forced to make a decision that would affect not only the present, but future Israeli policies as well. Releasing 1,000 prisoners, many of whom are high-ranking Hamas militants serving life sentences and are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israeli citizens, is not an easy decision to make.

What will stop Hamas from capturing more Israelis? What happened to not negotiating with terrorists?

Why is Gilad Shalit’s life more sacred than that of the innocent citizen who was killed during a terrorist attack planned by one of the released terrorists?

These are very tough questions that we must ask ourselves. Additionally, even though the Shin Bet (Israel’s equivalence of the FBI) confirmed that Israel got the best security terms possible in this deal, I am still not sufficiently convinced that this is a deal that keeps Israel more secure.

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must look at the bigger picture.

In Israel, every male citizen at the age of 18 must enlist in the army. It is not a choice—it is a requirement.

As such, the IDF and Israeli government have a greater responsibility to their soldiers than that of a voluntary military. During combat training, soldiers are guaranteed that they will be brought back, no matter the price, if they are captured by the enemy. How can the Israeli government not act on its word to its own citizens?

The price might be extremely high for Shalit’s return, but the morale of the IDF and the families of those serving (which constitutes a majority of Israelis) is of utmost importance.

I know that if I were an 18-year-old Israeli and I doubted the IDF’s promise to return me no matter the cost, I would be hesitant to take the necessary risks of war, or even to join a com-

bat unit in the first place.

In order to ensure that the most elite and able soldiers will continue to fight and be willing to take risks, Israel must stand by her pledge.

Additionally, ever since his capture, Shalit has become a hot topic in Israeli society. Much debate has stirred over whether or not Israel should do everything she can to secure Shalit’s return. The Shalit family tented out in front of the Prime Minister’s residence; protests and signs calling for his release, no matter the price, became routine.

To the average Israeli (and many Diaspora Zionists), Shalit became more than just a soldier held in captivity; he was a symbol of Israeli pride. Hamas militants not only captured one staff sergeant in the IDF, but they took all of Israel hostage.

With this understanding, 1,000 for one there-

fore becomes worthwhile, even a bargain.

It is true that Israel might have lost its upper hand in the negotiations. It is true that there is no certainty that this plan won’t backfire and end up leading to more captivities and more terrorism. But these are things that we cannot be sure of.

What we can be sure of, though, is that Shalit’s return to his family and his homeland represents more than a mere return of an individual, it represents a return of Israeli pride, Israeli power and Israeli unity.

These are features that have no price.

The deal negotiated and agreed upon by Israel and Hamas, therefore, is one that cannot be doubted and ridiculed, but only celebrated for what it represents on a national scale. Perhaps this is what Israelis have needed all along.

Editor’s note: The writer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Public should critically assess fear of terrorism Diego

Medrano Missing link

The FBI recently foiled a terrorist plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States.

The mastermind behind the plan was Iranian-American citizen Manssor Arbabsiar, who said that he was being instructed by Iranian government officials, although the Iranian government claims that there is no evidence to support that it had any involvement. Arbabsiar’s plot was discovered while he was in the process of hiring who he thought was a hit man from a Mexican cartel to attempt the assassination, unaware that specific hit man had been forced to become an FBI informant after a drug bust—score one for homeland security, right? Maybe.

Obviously, I’m all for the FBI keeping the country safer, but it seems that every couple of months a story pops up in which a “homegrown” terrorist decides to defect and the FBI stops them in the nick of time. These terrorists are usually Muslim Americans who inexplicably become radical and procure the necessary contacts and supplies to carry out their own attacks. These stories usually ap-

pear in the public sphere for a few days then are never really heard of again, except for occasional blurbs about how the trial is going.

The initial take-away from this coverage is: 1) Terrorists live among us. 2) “Homegrown” terrorism is on the rise. 3) The government is doing a fantastic job at keeping us safe. But further examination reveals a more troubling story.

Earlier this year, New York University School of Law released a study examining the rise of “homegrown” terrorism in America.

By and large, what they found is that untrained FBI informants found susceptible targets and entrapped them into committing crimes that they would not otherwise have thought of or had the means to commit.

Take the case of David Williams of “The Newburgh Four.” Williams lived in a poor neighborhood in Newburgh, N.Y. and had spent five years in jail for selling drugs at the age of 19.

After completing his sentence, Williams tried to get his life back on track and began attending a nearby college in the hopes of being able to support his mother and younger brother. Shortly after, his brother was diagnosed with liver cancer and needed a new liver and costly treatment.

Caught in a desperate situation and looking for money, an acquaintance named Cromitie told Williams that he knew a wealthy businessman in Pakistan named Maqsood. Maqsood would give Cromitie $250,000, luxury cars and the money to start his own barber-

shop if he helped carry out a terrorist attack, detonating a bomb in two Bronx synagogues.

Maqsood told Cromitie that he needed to find three other lookouts who were all Muslim.

Cromitie then assured Williams that he had his own plan to prevent Maqsood’s from succeeding and that no one would get hurt.

As it turned out, Maqsood was an FBI informant sent to monitor the mosque that Cromitie attended.

He spent eight months convincing Cromitie to carry out the attack, choosing the location, helping procure supplies and egging the group on.

On the night of the attack, the FBI was waiting and arrested the four involved. A jury found all four guilty, and they will serve a minimum of 25 years in prison or as much as life in prison.

Williams wasn’t completely innocent, as he was willing to work with a supposed terrorist, but it was in the attempt to save his only brother and only after being assured that the plan wouldn’t actually go through. He was never a radical and, chances are, Cromitie would never have acted had he not been given the means and was walked through the process.

The NYU study found that in the cases they reviewed of FBI informants who portrayed themselves as Muslims, they aggressively pushed ideas about violent jihad, targeted people who were poor and young, proposed locations for the attacks and provided the means of acquiring weapons. The FBI isn’t

always finding the extremists; they’re creating them.

I’m sure every story isn’t as cut-and-dry as this one and, by all means, I’m sure the FBI has done plenty to prevent other legitimate attacks. But this narrative is dangerous for public discourse. It portrays Muslims as secret terrorists and only furthers the fear of Islam that has taken root in this country.

The media seems all too willing to eat up these stories without digging further, and what results is a sort of fear-mongering and propaganda.

My point isn’t to discredit the job being done by the Department of Homeland Security but to implore readers to think critically about every story they come across.

The idea of “homegrown” terror will sell papers and earn viewers, but that doesn’t mean it’s actually prevalent in our country. I know that all it takes is one attack to prove me wrong, but when I read about cases like Williams; I can’t help but feel that it takes away time and resources that could be employed to prevent legitimate attacks instead of used to foster the extremism that sits dormant in a tiny portion of a small minority of the U.S. population. Taking these stories at face value is never the best policy, and I really do hope that the U.S. has stopped a legitimate threat, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t remain objective. We have a responsibility to stand up for the rights of all the disenfranchised, especially when those being prosecuted are Americans.

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SPORTS tennis

POWER SHOT

New pairings, same results for Judges ■ The women’s tennis team

changed up its partnerships but continued to roll in its final fall meet, which was held at Bates College.

By JACOB LURIE JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

The women’s tennis team ended its season on a high note by securing several wins at the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament last weekend.

At the tournament, which was held at Bates College, Brandeis entered three doubles teams into two separate draws. In the first, the Gail Smith A Flight, the Brandeis duo of Carley Cooke ’15 and Nina Levine ’12 found themselves matched up against Amherst College sophomores Lauren Slutsky and Safi Ali. The Judges’ duo stood their ground in the matchup, coming away with a 2-1 win.

“Amherst was a really solid team and had really good ground strokes,” said Levine. “We were actually up by a lot in the pro set, which is the first eight, and then Amherst picked it up. We focused in, and made sure we were more aggressive and made more balls than them, and it worked.”

In the following series, however, Brandeis was overpowered by the first team of Williams College, composed of junior Kristin Alotta and freshman Rebecca Curran.

The Judges dropped this match, 3-0.

Roberta Bergstein ’14 and Simone Vandroff ’15 also participated in the Gail Smith A Flight. The duo squared off against sophomores Margaret Teague and Allison Bodek from Simmons College.

Simmons put up a strong fight, and the team proved too much for Bergstein and Vandroff to handle, as they fell 2-1 in their opener.

Coach Ben Lamanna hoped for more from Bergstein and Vandroff but realized that injuries played a role in their early knockout. “[Vandroff] is a freshman who was held back from a torn ACL, and had surgery after that, so she’s getting back into it,” he said. “It was a good experience for her.”

However, in the A Flight Consolation, the two were able to avenge themselves for their earlier loss.

Their first matchup in the consolation bracket was against the first team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which consisted of sophomores Julia Hsu and Lauren Quisenberry. The Judges had a difficult opponent, yet were able to outplay the other

squad en route to a 2-1 victory.

The next game did not turn out as well for Brandeis, as Clark University sophomores Gaby Suriano and Sarah Sachs ended the Judges’ short run.

In the other draw, the Chris David B Flight, the Brandeis team of Allyson Bernstein ’14 and Marissa Lazar ’14 found success against Clark University juniors Rose Burberry Martin and Kristen Cullity. Bernstein and Lazar jumped ahead in the match and never looked back, taking a 3-0 victory in the opener. In the next match, the Judges squared off against Smith College freshman Jordan Dubin and sophomore Grace McKayCorkum. However, Bernstein and Laraz dispatched with them as well, winning the match 3-0, and Brandeis advanced to the quarterfinals.

Up next for Brandeis was a stellar Babson College duo, consisting of senior Rebecca Stone and freshman Minte Tamoshunas. The Judges had a difficult time against the Beavers, dropping the match in straight sets, 3-0.

In dissecting the women’s overall play, Levine believes that the Judges should be proud.

“Everyone played really well and didn’t let the names of the schools affect their play,” she said.

“Everyone played their best, and since this was the last tournament of the year, everyone went out and took what they practiced and executed it perfectly. Overall, we did really well. There’s always room for improvement, but this was a good tournament to see what we needed to work on, but everything we worked on through the fall season came together.”

Levine was also thrilled with the team’s chemistry and their offcourt support of each other.

“The nicest thing, which is what I remember most about [watching Bergstein and Vandroff’s match], is that we cheered a lot more than the other team, so the support was really great. Also, some peoples’ parents were there, and we got to play next to them too. It was good to have on-court support as well as off court.”

Looking forward, Lamanna has high hopes for his team to jump back into the national rankings after losing it earlier this season.

“We’ve got a good team, a solid team,” he said. “We’ve got a great shot at getting into the top 30 in the rankings to get our national ranking back.”

Although the Judges’ fall season has now come to an end, Brandeis will begin a new tennis season this spring and look to carry over its progress into a new season.

XCOUNTRY: Runners excel at Albany meet CONTINUED FROM 16 a month, I don’t really feel like I’m in the season. I guess the only time I’ve simulated racing are during tempo runs and workouts. Other than that, I just do my normal runs and that’s it.”

Despite the fact that she feels a bit out of the loop, the sophomore

is optimistic about the future, most notably the University Athletic Association Championships on Oct. 29 in Chicago.

“The team is looking good,” she said. “A couple of the girls are injured, but for the most part, we are healthy and doing well. I guess we just want to be healthy and ready to race.”

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KICKING FOR THE GOAL: Defender Alec Spivack ’15 rears back to kick the ball downfield in a 3-0 loss to WashU last Sunday.

WSOCCER: Squad picks up one point in two home UAA games CONTINUED FROM 16 you tend to play with more urgency,” said defender Ali Maresca ’12. “Since they did score early, we had a lot of time to even out the score. I think we played a lot better in the second half but in the end we were still unable to score and make a comeback.”

“We knew they were big and mostly a kick-and-run team, so we wanted to play quickly and pass around them,” added Kelly Peterson ’14. “After their goals, we were still aiming to possess the ball, but we tried to be more offensively minded.”

Though shut out against Case Western Reserve on Oct. 9, the women wasted no time getting on the board against Chicago last Friday night. Midfielder Mary Shimko ’14 let fly a rasping drive which flew past senior goalkeeper Emma Gormley and into the net to give Brandeis the upper hand.

They almost had the ball in the net a second time at nine minutes,

as midfielder Alanna Torre ’12 and Maresca had efforts cleared following a corner kick, the latter having her effort cleared off the line. Despite their supremacy in possession, the Judges couldn’t break the game open further, as it was still 1-0 at the half.

Chicago would strike with 36:53 left in the game. Senior striker Alison Hegel broke in one-on-one with Kofinas. Instead of customarily sliding the ball across the face of the goal, Hegel hammered a shot with the outside of her right foot past the diving Brandeis goalkeeper and into the left-side netting, to knot things up at one apiece.

Less than 30 seconds following the goal, the game entered a new ninetyminute phase, due to a lightning delay. It couldn’t have come at a better time.

“It slowed down Chicago’s momentum from the goal they had just scored,” midfielder Mimi Theodore ’12 said. “It gave us a time to regroup and try to reorganize ourselves.”

However, despite numerous chances down the stretch, including a nice effort from Torre in the second overtime, the Judges were unable to convert their scoring opportunities, resulting in a 1-1 draw.

Though avoiding defeat, Maresca thought the team could have emerged victorious.

“I think we controlled both the overtimes but were unable to find the back of the net despite some great offensive shots,” she said.

Brandeis, sitting at 5-8-1 following last Sunday’s game, will look to get back to its winning ways in a home game against Endicott College on Oct. 24.

Though the team has hit a few rough patches, Peterson thinks that the emergence of some of the younger players bodes well for the future.

“They all contribute to our team and the experience they are getting now will benefit our team in the long run.”

MSOCCER: Team falls to WashU, defeats Chicago CONTINUED FROM 16 “With 10 minutes left, I take out a back,” explained Coven of the tactical switch. “They come in behind us and score. For us, 2-0, 1-0, it doesn’t matter. A loss is a loss. So I’ve been playing with an extra forward late [in the game] trying to get the goal. It is going to leave us open for counterattack. It ended up coming down to a five-against-three break for them.”

The Judges employ a balanced formation that focuses on strong defending with a four-man backline and a strong attack with three strikers. Thus, it was not an ideal situation when Coven was forced to remove a defender in place of another striker late in the game. He used the tactic, however, because the squad is lacking a striker with the finishing touch.

“There is absolutely an element of the game you can’t teach,” explained Coven. “For some of these guys it’s just natural. They don’t even think about it. They just end up in a position to score goals. It’s something innate that allows them to be at the right place at the right time.”

Brandeis has a talented group of strikers, but none of the team’s cur-

rent strikers compare to some of the goal scorers Brandeis has had in the past. Jeff Steinberg’s ’87 61 career goals is the all-time scoring record for the school. His 23-goal season in 1984 not only helped the Judges to the NCAA Championship game, but also set another school record. The Judges are currently missing someone like Steinberg.

“You talk about someone like Jeff Steinberg. He never left the 18-yard box. He was average, just [five feet, eight inches] and okay in the air.

But he would score with either foot.

Certain people have that knack to be at the right place at the right time.

He was a poacher. And we need a poacher.”

Despite the loss to WashU, the Judges collected their first UAA win of the season with a 2-1 victory over Chicago last Friday.

Brandeis struck first in the match at the fourth minute. Forward Steve Keuchkarian ’12 placed the ball perfectly into the box for Ocel, who then launched a shot right into the left corner of the net to give the Judges a 1-0 lead.

Chicago freshman midfielder Nick Codispotti leveled in the first half, sliding a ball past the outstretched

hands of Minchoff to senior midfielder Alan Pikna. With Minchoff out of position, Pikna finished with a tap into the empty net to knot the match at 1-1.

Feather was able to score the game-winner midway through the second half. Applefield made a beautiful run down the left flank before making a perfect cross to Feather.

Feather then slammed a shot past Chicago’s goalkeeper to put the Judges up for good at 2-1.

“Defensively and in the middle third of the field, we’re excellent,” says Coven. “But up front we have to score. No one on the bench is a pure goal scorer. The guys we have are the best that we’ve got. Hopefully, the goals will start coming.”

“This is a good group,” Coven added. “They know that they’re good.

They want to win and they work hard. [Sunday] was a disappointment because we know we deserved to win.”

The Judges have their next game against Springfield College tomorrow night. With a difficult schedule ahead, and with the Judges rolling into the final third of the season, the team will need to start putting away its opportunities.

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Judges drop all four matches at UAAs ■ The volleyball team was

defeated by four UAA rivals in its second conference tournament of the season.

By adam rabinowitz JUSTICE editorial assistant

The volleyball team, despite putting up a solid effort, continued to struggle at last weekend’s University Athletic Association Round Robin. The team fell in straight sets to all four of its opponents at the tournament, which was held at the University of Rochester.

Last Saturday, the Judges were swept by the University of Chicago and then Case Western Reserve University. Last Sunday, Brandeis extended its losing streak to 13 matches, losing 3-0 to both Emory University and Rochester. The Judges are now 7-15 on the season overall and 0-7 in conference play.

Coach Michelle Kim said that the main reason for the team’s recent losing streak is a matter of inconsistent play.

“It has been a challenge for our team to find consistency with our play most of our season and, heading into the last part of our season, we’ll need to continue working hard at practices to improve as a team and to be more consistent.”

Brandeis ended the tournament with a 3-0 loss to Rochester by scores of 25-16, 25-15 and 25-19. The Judges let the YellowJackets pull away at the beginning of all three sets, and were inefficient at the net, recording just 25 kills against 24 errors.

Outside hitter Liz Hood ’15 led the team with nine kills. Libero Elsie Bernaiche ’15 and defensive specialist Susan Sun ’13 anchored the defensive effort, notching 13 and 11 digs, respectively. Setter Yael Einhorn ’14 also notched 19 assists.

Earlier in the day, the Judges were defeated by Emory in straight sets of 25-17, 25-10 and 25-20. The Eagles jumped out to large leads in the first and second sets, never looking back en route to convincing victories. Brandeis posed more of a challenge to Emory in the third set, drawing within a few points, but the

Eagles were able to kill the rally and win the set en route to earning the top seed in November’s UAA championship.

Hood posted the only double-digit tally in kills for the weekend with 10, while outside hitter Si-Si Hensley ’14 chipped in with five kills and nine digs. Einhorn contributed 13 assists and six digs.

Last Saturday, the Judges were just as unsuccessful. In the afternoon, Brandeis played a well-fought match against Case Western, but ultimately lost by scores of 25-16, 25-20 and 25-14.

Middle blocker Lauren Berens ’13 led the team with a personal-best nine kills against only two errors in 34 attempts. Einhorn recorded a double-double in the match with 21 assists and 11 digs. Setter Vanessa Bodie ’15 notched 10 digs in the loss.

Earlier in the day, the Judges were defeated by UChicago by scores of 25-14, 25-14 and 25-20. Brandeis did not pose much of a threat in the first two sets, losing to the No. 16 Maroons by double digits. In the third set, the Judges rallied against Chicago but could not come through, losing 25-20 to complete the sweep.

Middle blocker Becca Fischer ’13 anchored the team offensively with seven kills and two blocks. Bernaiche earned seven digs while Einhorn collected 11 assists and four digs.

Kim mentioned the team did exhibit some excellent play during the tournament, but said that this needs to happen on a more frequent basis.

“I thought this weekend our blocking game improved a bit. We did a better job this weekend of getting some solid touches on the block,” she wrote in an email to the Justice.

“We definitely had some flashes of very good play this weekend, but we need to find ways of increasing the frequency of those flashes and to decrease the dramatic downswings we tend to have within the match,” she added.

Brandeis will next play at Smith College’s annual Hall of Fame Invitational this weekend. On Friday, the Judges will square off against Smith, followed by a doubleheader on Saturday against Amherst College and Bowdoin College.

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GOING FOR THE KILL: Outside hitter Liz Hood ’15 looks to nail a point for the Judges in a September win vs. Rhode Island College.

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jUDGES BY THE NUMBERS Men’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS Goals

Not including Monday’s games UAA Conference Overall

W L D W L D Pct. WashU 4 0 0 12 1 0 .923 Case 3 1 0 11 3 0 .786 Rochester 2 1 1 8 3 1 .708 Emory 2 2 0 7 6 0 .538 NYU 2 2 0 6 6 1 .500 JUDGES 1 2 1 8 4 1 .654 Carnegie 1 3 0 5 6 1 .458 Chicago 0 4 0 5 6 2 .462

Kyle Feather ’14 and Lee Russo ’13 lead the team in goals.

Player Goals Kyle Feather 5 Lee Russo 5 Sam Ocel 4 two more tied with 4

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Steve Keuchkarian ’12 leads the team in assists with six.

Player Assists Steve Keuchkarian 6 Tyler Savonen 4 Sam Ocel 3 two more tied with 3

UPCOMING GAMES Wednesday at Springfield; Monday vs. Lasell; Friday, Oct. 28 at Emory

WOMen’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

Not including Monday’s games

Points

UAA Conference

W L D W Emory 3 0 1 11 Case 3 1 0 10 WashU 2 2 0 12 Carnegie 2 2 0 8 Rochester 2 2 0 7 Chicago 1 1 2 7 NYU 1 3 0 9 JUDGES 0 3 1 5

Mary Shimko ’14 and Mimi Theodore ’12 lead in points.

Player Pts Mary Shimko 6 Mimi Theodore 6 Sapir Edalati 5 Alanna Torre 5

Overall L D Pct. 0 2 .923 2 2 .786 3 0 .800 5 0 .615 5 0 .583 4 2 .615 5 0 .643 8 1 .393

UPCOMING GAMES Monday at Endicott; Tues, Oct. 25 at Lesley; Friday, Oct. 28 at Emory

Shots Alanna Torre ’12 leads the team in shots taken with 51.

Player Shots Alanna Torre 51 Mimi Theodore 25 Hilary Andrews 24 two tied with 18

VOLLEYBALL UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS Kills

Not including Monday’s games UAA Conference Overall

W L W L Pct. Emory 7 0 28 2 .933 WashU 6 1 24 1 .960 Chicago 5 2 23 3 .885 Case 4 3 18 8 .692 NYU 2 5 15 11 .557 Rochester 2 5 15 14 .517 Carnegie 2 5 12 11 .522 JUDGES 0 7 7 15 .318

UPCOMING GAMES Hall of Fame Invitational at Smith: Friday vs. Smith, Saturday vs. Amherst and Bowdoin

Liz Hood ’15 leads the team in kills so far this year with 228.

Player Kills Liz Hood 228 Si-Si Hensley 148 Becca Fischer 108 Lauren Berens 92

Digs Elsie Bernaiche ’15 leads the team in digs this year with 298.

Player Digs Elsie Bernaiche 298 Si-Si Hensley 145 Susan Sun 134 Yael Einhorn 129

cross cOuntry Results from last Saturday’s meet at the University of Albany

TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)

TOP FINISHERS (Women’s)

RUNNER TIME Chris Brown 26:07.8 Marc Boutin 26:09.4 Taylor Dundas 26:34.6 Alex Kramer 26:38.8

RUNNER TIME Kate Warwick 19.02.8 Amelia Lundkvist 19.26.5 Miriam Stulin 19.36.9 Victoria Sanford 20.26.7

UPCOMING EVENTS Saturday, Oct. 29 at the UAA Championships at the University of Chicago; Saturday, Nov. 12 at New England D3 Championships at Bowdoin College

PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID PERLOW

HIGH FLYER: Middle blocker Russell Foxworthy ’12 goes up for a block at one of the men’s volleyball team’s matches.

■ The men’s club volleyball

team won the third annual Brandeis Alumni Invitational Tournament, holding off BC. By josh asen JUSTICE senior WRITER

After splitting its first two sets against Boston College, the men’s club volleyball team trailed 14-8 and faced match point in the third and final set of the third annual Brandeis Invitational Alumni Tournament Championship on Oct. 9. However, the Judges, who lost to BC in the regional semifinals last year, won the final set 18-16 after withstanding seven match points from the Eagles.

“To beat them this year [and] to show how much we improved from last year was very exhilarating,” said captain David Perlow ’11 MA ’12.

In the first set, the Judges rallied to win the first few points of the match against BC, the defending

champions of the National Collegiate Volleyball League. However, the Eagles evened the score and, after a close set, came out on top with a 2523 victory.

But the Judges started strong in the second set and controlled the lead by five to six points throughout to win by a score of 25-19.

In the deciding 15-point set, BC led 8-6 when both squads switched sides at the midpoint of the set. Afterward, the Judges committed several passing and hitting errors, giving BC a 14-8 lead. BC needed just one more point to claim the title, but the Judges did not let that happen.

“We just got on a run,” Perlow said. “We were digging every ball they hit at us. We put balls away.

We basically had to play a perfect sequence of seven points.”

After evening the set at 14-14, the Judges faced another match point after BC pulled ahead 15-14. However, Brandeis was able to rally again and win the final set 18-16.

“It was definitely the most intense ending to a mach that I have ever

experienced in my career here,” Perlow said.

Before defeating BC in the finals, Brandeis swept Boston University’s club team in two sets in the semifinals, as well as the varsity squad from Elms College and the club team from Yale University in three sets during pool play.

Elms presented the Judges with a definitive challenge in facing a varsity team, according to Perlow.

“That was the big test for us,” he said. “We wanted to see how we matched up against an actual varsity team. … We were riding high after that one.”

The team’s only loss in the tournament was to the Brandeis alumni team. However, the Judges clinched the No. 1 seed in their pool prior to facing the other Brandeis team, and played backups in the loss.

The men’s club volleyball team next plays in the BU Invitational Tournament from Dec. 3 to 4. A mixture of 32 varsity and club squads from New England and the Midwest will compete.

Soccer Brief Manchester United takes a point on the road at Anfield, drawing its bitter rival Liverpool at 1-1 Rivalries: New England sports fans are all too familiar with grudge matches. The Celtics despise the Los Angeles Lakers. The Bruins have their own hatred for the Montreal Canadiens. The Patriots can’t stand Rex Ryan and his New York Jets, and of course, there is the rivalry between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees? Sir Isaac Newton once said, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” For every team, there is a most-despised opponent.

Saturday saw the meeting of arguably the biggest of rivals in British soccer: Liverpool and Manchester United.

The two most successful clubs in the English game played to a 1-1 tie in what is largely considered England’s most intense matchup.

Each has its claim to fame: United has won a record 19 English League

titles, setting the benchmark this past May at the expense of Liverpool, who has won an English best-of-five UEFA Champions League trophies. This rivalry is like Sox-Yanks on steroids: the intensity is indescribable.

As is common with many of these high-octane matches, which are played twice a year, both teams were content to play cautiously and close in the opening stages rather than go for the jugular. Host Liverpool had the better of the initial exchanges, racking up a decent amount of possessions.

United, however, was not troubled by its opponents, as a 34th-minute effort from Liverpool forward Luis Suarez was hit straight at United goalkeeper David De Gea. The two sides went into the break with the game truly in balance at 0-0.

Following halftime, the game began

to open up a bit more. Despite United having the better chances, as midfielder Ashley Young forced goalkeeper Pepe Reina into a save from a free kick, Liverpool grabbed the lead in the 68th minute through their own dead-ball situation. Captain Steven Gerrard, returning at midfield after a lengthy lay-off due to a groin injury, lined up a 20-yard free kick after midfield compatriot Charlie Adam was tripped by United center back Rio Ferdinand. He took two steps and sniped the ball between a gap in United’s defensive wall and past a static De Gea into the net, sending Anfield into raptures.

United would respond 12 minutes later to tie the match at 1-1. Midfielder Nani, who had only recently come on as a substitute, whipped in an in-swinging corner from the left flank. The ball was flicked on by for-

ward Danny Welbeck to the back post, where substitute strike partner Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez took advantage of some haphazard Liverpool defending to nod home and restore parity in the match with 10 minutes remaining.

Liverpool then had chances to steal the game at the death. Seconds after the restart, striker Dirk Kuyt—who scored a hat trick in a 3-1 win over United last season—was denied by a great save from De Gea. The Spanish custodian would then prove his side’s savior moments later, tipping midfielder Jordan Henderson’s looping effort over the bar. From the resultant corner, Liverpool had a few shots blocked, before Henderson placed a header onto the roof of the net with a few ticks left on the clock. The final whistle went, and the match ended in

a 1-1 draw.

While Liverpool was most likely unhappy to see their three-match winning streak against their rivals at home end, they know that a point against the men from Manchester is nothing to sneeze at, especially considering their 6-0-1 mark heading in to the contest. United, however, will probably feel they too could have done better, especially when re-evaluating the defending that led to Gerrard’s goal.

Though neither side emerged victorious on the day, it was a fair result given the balance of play between both teams.

Even though there will be cold in the air when these two sides meet again on Feb. 11 in Manchester, one can be sure the rivalry will remain as hot as ever.

—Henry Loughlin

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cross country

BREAKAWAY

Runners continue to finish strong ■ The men’s and women’s

cross country squads both earned top-10 finishes at the UAlbany Invitational.

By henry loughlin JUSTICE staff WRITER

son fired narrowly wide of the post.

However, the early double was still intact, as the Judges headed into the break down 2-0.

The Bears would strike again with 25:53 remaining, as senior midfielder Mari Greenberg fed Johnson, who slotted home past substitute keeper Michelle Savuto ’15. Savuto would make saves off of Toaspern and Brown late on, but by that point WashU had sealed the victory.

“When you are down two goals,

The University of Albany cross country course is not for the faint of heart.

Undulating hills. Scintillating turns. Narrow twists. Combine those challenges with a field of mixed Division I and Division III teams, and the meet at the UAlbany Invitational last Saturday can unsettle even the most seasoned of veterans.

Despite such adversities, the men’s and women’s cross country teams showed that they can deliver on the big occasion. The men placed fifth out of 21 teams, while their female counterparts finished 10th out of 23 scorers.

“We were so congested at the start that at the first turn a few girls fell,” said Amelia Lundkvist ’14. “I had to jump over someone to avoid going down myself.”

Even more impressively, both teams defeated Division I powers en route to their finishes.

Senior leadership can often be the one-two punch that a team needs on the course. This was the case Saturday, with Chris Brown ’12 and Marc Boutin ’12 leading the men’s team’s charge with their 18th- and 20th-place finishes, respectively. Brown covered the eight-kilometer race (4.96 miles) course in 26 minutes and 7.8 seconds, 1.6 seconds ahead of his teammate.

Taylor Dundas ’14 and Alex Kramer ’13 were the team’s second duo, placing 37th and 40th place in 26:34.6 and 26:38.8, respectively. Ed Colvin ’14 took the final scoring spot for the Judges, crossing the line in 51st place with a 26:49.8 effort. First-years Jared Harrigan ’15 and Greg Bray ’15 showed that the team has great potential, as their first collegiate race yielded 89th and 101st with times of 27:35.0 and 27:48.8 respectively.

Kate Warwick ’12, named the women’s cross country UAA athlete of the week, continues to be a steady leader thus far this season, notching a 19:02.8 effort for 35th place in the five-kilometer (3.1 mile) race. Lundkvist and Miriam Stulin ’15 were the next two Judges across the line, finishing 54th and 60th in 19:26.5 and 19:36.9. Victoria Sanford ’14 took 90th in 20:26, while Monique Girard ’12 placed 98th in 20:36.2, rounding out the scoring.

Brandeis has had a bit of an odd season in terms of racing, having pulled out of the Open New England Championship at Franklin Park last weekend, and Lundkvist said that it has had a bit of an effect on her training.

“I feel like when I race more often than not, I stay in the racing mode,” she says. “Racing once every two weeks is kind of nice, but when we race only once

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HAPPY FEET: Forward Tyler Savonen ’15 looks for an opening against a Washington University in St. Louis defender during a 2-0 loss to the Bears at home last Sunday.

Squad splits in UAA matches ■ The men’s soccer team lost

2-0 to the WashU Bears after defeating Chicago 2-1.

By julian cardillo JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

If the men’s soccer team could only put its chances away, it would have walked away from last Sunday’s game against Washington University in St. Louis with its second University Athletic Association win of the season instead of a 2-0 loss. The Judges outplayed the No. 8-ranked Bears for most of the match but couldn’t score, while WashU picked up a late first-half goal from a defensive error, and put the game away in the 83rd minute after taking advantage of a

Brandeis tactical switch that backfired. The team is now 8-4-1 overall and 1-2-1 in the UAA after defeating the University of Chicago 2-1 last Friday.

The Judges gave the Bears a difficult time at Gordon Field, firing nine shots on goal in response to just four from WashU. Even though they played just two days before, the Judges played a sharp passing game and did not look fatigued.

“We were really looking forward to this game and we knew it was going to be a big game, because they’re ranked very high,” said midfielder Kyle Feather ’14. “We came out strong, we came out with high energy, but we just couldn’t get a result. We outplayed them, but we just couldn’t put the ball in the back of the net.”

Of Brandeis’ nine shots on goal, attacking midfielder Sam Ocel ’13 had the most attempts, putting five shots on frame. Sophomore goalkeeper Jonathan Jebson made saves on all nine of Brandeis’ attempts at goal, though Ocel came close to scoring twice on two snap headers that Jebson acrobatically parried away.

The Bears broke through against the run of play in the 39th minute, when senior Michael Chamberlain found the back of the net after senior Zach Hendrickson flicked on a corner kick from senior midfielder Cody Costakis. The goal marked the first time this season that the Judges conceded from a corner kick.

“They served it to the back post, and their guy won it and directed it across the face of goal,” explained defender Ben Applefield ’14. Someone

was right there and managed to get a toe on it and poke it and it went in.”

The Judges didn’t get discouraged and pressed on, firing six secondhalf shots on Jebson’s goal. Yet none of Brandeis’ forwards provided an equalizer. In search of the tying goal, coach Mike Coven took off defender Robbie Lynch ’15 for striker Tyler Savonen ’15 in the final 10 minutes to add another attacking option.

In the 84th minute, the Bears capitalized on the weakened defense, intercepting the ball in midfield and launching a five-on-three breakaway. Senior forward Dylan Roman squared the ball to junior midfielder Zach Query, who finished easily past Blake Minchoff ’13 to double the lead to 2-0.

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women’s soccer

Team still winless in conference play ■ The women’s soccer team

dropped a 3-0 decision to WashU after tying Chicago.

By henry loughlin JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Two words described the fortunes of the women’s soccer team this past week: draw and defeat.

Despite hanging tough and creating opportunities in last Sunday’s game against Washington University

in St. Louis, the Judges were unable to find the net, falling 3-0 to the No. 10 Bears. The loss came two days after a 1-1 tie against No. 24 University of Chicago that was halted by a lightning delay. The Judges are now 5-81 overall and 0-2-1 in the University Athletic Association Last Sunday, WashU started in fine form, as freshman forward Lillie Toaspern called goalkeeper Francine Kofinas ’13 into action after three minutes, 30 seconds, corralling the striker’s low shot.

The visiting Bears would take

the lead exactly 16 minutes into the match. Toaspern fed senior forward Emma Brown, who waltzed her way into the box before beating a diving Kofinas to the left corner to give the Bears a 1-0 lead.

Lightning struck again less than two minutes later. WashU junior midfielder Lauren Clatch crossed to sophomore teammate Lauren Steimle, whose header inside the far post, gave the Judges a mountain to climb.

The Bears almost jumped out to a three-goal lead after 22 minutes, as sophomore midfielder Jessica John-

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■ “Blackout: the Party”

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■ Jenin Freedom Theater talk

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Students danced all night as DJs displayed their skills in the Levin Ballroom. Special guests included Saz.É and Ayan Sanyal ’14.

Performers from the Theater in the West Bank refugee camp discussed their performances and the foundation of their theater.

■ Acatober Fest

Starving Artists hosted this first annual event, featuring a cappella troupes from universities in the Boston area.

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■ Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!

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■ Epic Ramen Time

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The psychedelic, exuberant rockers played a wild show at Cholmondeley’s on Tuesday night, featuring opener Zanois.

BAASA put on this fun competition, based on the Food Network show ‘Iron Chef’. Students prepared dishes featuring ramen noodles.

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■ ‘Drive’ review

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■ ‘Human Centipede 2’ review

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■ Examining ‘Gears of War 3’

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Ryan Gosling has been drumming up a lot of Oscar buzz for his role as the Driver in this artistic thriller based on a 2005 novel.

The gross-out movie by Dutch filmmaker Tom Six opened in theaters this week.

JustArts’ video game column, Critical Hit, focuses on ‘Gears of War 3,’ the last installment in Epic Games’ popular trilogy.

CALENDAR

Interview

Alumna Ji Yun Lee ’11 enters the world of fashion

by Shelly Shore

Let it never be said that England is still fussy and old-fashioned!

According to news reports from across the pond, Prime Minister David Cameron’s government is working to change existing rules of inheritance of the British crown. As current law stands, if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a daughter and then a son, the boy would inherit the throne despite being born second. Under Cameron’s proposed new legislature, a firstborn daughter could claim the crown and be Queen.

Cameron has already gotten the legal process underway by writing to the governments of countries within the Commonwealth, where Queen Elizabeth is their monarch—the new rules would have to be unanimously ratified.

“We espouse gender equality in all other aspects of life, and it is an anomaly that in the rules relating to the highest public officer we continue to enshrine male superiority,” Cameron wrote.

Cameron also proposes lifting the ban on anyone in the line of succession marrying a Catholic (seriously, Britain?), and suggests that only the first six people in line for the throne should need to get permission to marry from the reigning monarch.

This won’t be the first time that William and Kate have been at the center of overturning outdated, royalty-related rules. During their engagement, there was some debate over whether the now-Duchess would have to undergo a medical examination to prove fertility, as William’s mother Diana did (and that was in the ’80s!) Citing the fact that it’s 2011, for goodness’ sake, Duchess Kate did not have any such obligation.

There has been a lot of discussion, especially here in the U.S. (where we don’t have our own royals and have so much fun watching everyone else’s) over just what monarchs, and the rules and regulations

 JustArts catches up with the Fashion Scholarship Fund recipient, who is currently an assistant brand manager at LF USA in New York City.

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ROYALTY: British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to change how the British crown is inherited.

surrounding marriage and inheritance for those monarchs, stand for.

Some see William and Kate of Cambridge as the model of a healthy, long-term relationship (the scary amount of weight she lost before and just after her wedding not withstanding), while others see them as a waste of taxpayer money. However, the good thing about Duchess Kate is that she does not seem to be the sort of lady that gets pushed around.

As far as princesses go, I’d say that’s a pretty good trait to teach all those little girls who still want to be a princess when they grow up.

What’s happening in Arts on and off campus

ON-CAMPUS EVENTS

EMBODIED: Laurie Kaplowitz and Stacy Latt Savage

“EMBODIED” is a two-person art exhibition featuring the work of painter Laurie Kaplowitz and sculptor Stacy Latt Savage.

Both artists address the female figure from extremely different viewpoints.

The artists will be present to discuss their work and answer questions. Refreshments will be served.

Tomorrow from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Women’s Studies Research Center.

Visiting Scholar

The Mandel Center for the Humanities and the Marin Weiner Fund will co-sponsor a lecture by Amanda Vickery, the professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London and author of Behind Closed Doors: A Home in Georgian England.

Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Olin-Sang 207.

Peacebuilding and the Arts

The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life will sponsor this weekend intensive where Brandeis students and community development professionals explore artistic approaches to reconciling global conflicts. These sessions will include a viewing of clips from the documentary, Acting Together, participation in theater activities, conversation and a song-writing workshop led by Jane Sapp, a cultural organizer and musician.

Friday to Sunday in the Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex Atrium. Email coexistence@brandeis.edu for more information.

From Ancient Art to Sol Lewitt Wall Drawings

Jock Reynolds, an artist and the director of the Yale University Art Gallery will talk about how university art museums can share collections and resources. Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts.

Friday from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. in the Mandel Center for the Humanities Auditorium. More information at http://www.brandeis.edu/ mandelhumanities/index.html.

“Find a Treasure and Hold It Up for Them to See”: Jane Sapp’s Art of Building Culture

Jane Sapp, an Atlanta-based educator and gospel musician of enormous power and talent, will give a concert and multimedia presentation on cultural development, incorporating songs, digital stories and her current thinking on the role of culture in development. She will be joined by civil rights leader Hubert Sapp.

Friday at 7 p.m. at the Slosberg Recital Hall.

‘Margaret: A Tiger’s Heart’

Come see an original adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI play by the undergraduate theater clubs Brandeis Players and Hold Thy Peace.

Friday to Sunday at the Carl J. Shapiro Theater. Tickets are $3 or $5. Purchase tickets online or call the Brandeis Box Office at 781736-3400.

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SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE ARTS: This weekend in the Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public life sponsors its Peacebuilding and the Arts workshop.

OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS ‘Tiny Kushner’

The groundbreaking American playwright Tony Kushner is being honored by Zeitgeist Stage Company, which is putting on five of Kushner’s short works this month. Kushner, known for his sharp wit and his fearless documentation of gay culture in the 1980s, is best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America. In Tiny Kushner, Zeitgeist puts on several plays that include real-life characters, including Hitler, Dostoyevsky, Nixon, George W. Bush and Shakespeare.

Running through Saturday at the BCA Plaza Black Box Theatre located at 527 Tremont St. in Boston.

‘The Phantom Tollbooth’

Wheelock Family Theater celebrates The Phantom Tollbooth’s 50th anniversary by putting on a musical adaptation of the classic children’s novel. Protagonist Milo journeys through the Kingdom of Wisdom searching for the Princesses of Rhyme and Reason.

Running from this Friday to Nov. 4 at Wheelock College’s Wheelock Family Theater, located at 180 Riverway, Boston.

The Bad Plus at Regattabar

Since its inception 10 years ago, hard-hitting acoustic jazz trio The Bad Plus have shattered musical convention by melding, nay, smashing jazz with genres such as indie rock, electronica and acid jazz. It’s true-to-roots, sophisticated jazz but also hard, loud music that will get your head rocking at the same time.

The threesome has been exchanging musical ideas since the late ’80s, when Anderson and King were two fledgling rock musicians listening to records by Coltrane and The Police. Anderson met Iverson in 1989. All three played together on one occasion a year later

before going their separate ways for 10 years.

When the three reconvened in their hometown in 2000, the combination of their eccentric beats and melodious improvisations produced what The New York Times called one of the top releases in 2001.

The Bad Plus’ two-day stay at the Regattabar will feature pieces from its recent albums, including 2009’s For All I Care and 2010’s NEVER STOP. Oct. 27 and 28 at the Regattabar, located in the Charles Hotel in Cambridge.

Company One’s “The Brother/Sister Plays”

Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote “The Brother/Sister Plays,” three modern-day works about discovering love and life through the closest members of one’s family. In Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet are gritty and lyric, urban and mythical. One of the most startling new American theatrical voices of the 21st century, McCraney redefines the boundaries of language, form, race and sexuality.

Oct. 28 to Dec. 3 at 539 Tremont St. in Boston.

For ticketing information and a full schedule, visit www.companyone.org.

‘Degas and the Nude’ at the MFA, Boston

The nude figure was an important part of Edgar Degas’ art, from the beginning of his career as a painter in the 1850s until near the end of his life.

However, this subject regarding Degas has never before been explored in a museum exhibition.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris bring “Degas and the Nude” to town, featuring paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture.

On display Oct. 9 through Feb. 2, 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For more information, visit www.mfa.org.

Ji Yun Lee ’11 got a lot out of her time at Brandeis. Lee received Brandeis’ prestigious Fashion Scholarship Fund and, just after graduating, Lee began working as assistant brand manager for fashion accessories and the menswear division at LF USA in New York.

In a phone interview with justArts, Lee talked about her past experiences and her current work in the fashion industry.

JustArts: What got you interested in fashion?

Lee: My mother was my muse. She was always fashionable. I used to play dress up with my mother’s vintage pieces, and I wrote for the monthly fashion column of the high school paper. I had a passion for international diplomacy [and] politics and fashion and wanted to merge the two together.

JA: I understand you were born in Korea. How was the transition to Brandeis?

JYL: Well, I was born in Seoul, Korea, but I moved to Beijing, China when I was seven.

It was an easy transition coming to Brandeis.

Everyone was warm and welcoming.

JA: How did you hear about the Fashion Scholarship Fund and what did you have to do to apply?

JYL: I received about 16 emails from friends and faculty who thought I would be interested. For the scholarship, I had to write an essay and complete a business case study on marketing.

JA: Can you tell me a little about your past work in the fashion industry?

JYL: I worked for W in Korea right after my freshman year and Vogue in China following my sophomore year. Then I worked for Saks Fifth Avenue’s Men’s Fashion office after my junior year and started working at LF USA upon graduating.

JA: How would you compare your work in China and Korea with your work in America?

JYL: There were many cultural differences not only in terms of featured content but also dynamics within the office. I became more aware of the cultural nuances and the importance of catering to different consumer preferences. I learned a tremendous amount through my internships—I can’t stress that enough. Being immersed in different environments helped me fine-tune what I was looking for in a career, which was combining my business acumen and creative capabilities.

JA: Can you tell me a little about your current job?

JYL: I’m working specifically with several fashion accessories and menswear brands. In brand management, we do research on white space opportunities, as well as monitor changes in customer preferences. We are also the brand stewards, therefore we are in charge of controlling how our brands are positioned in stores and through our numerous media channels. We also coordinate with various divisions within the company and, depending on the scope of the project, we will also collaborate with external sources. My mentor, Paul Rosengard ’80, the executive vice president and head of menswear for LF USA and chairman emeritus of the scholarship fund, introduced me to LF USA. We meet on a regular basis. He is so wonderful and supportive. He not only offered insightful career advice but also helped me adapt to life in New York City.

JA: Is it tough working in the fashion industry?

JYL: It’s not always as glamorous as it seems. There were definitely some Devil Wears Prada moments. Also, the rapid pace of the industry becomes a challenge at times, especially with social media and technological advancements. You always have to be alert and observe what is going on in the rest of the world.

JA: Did you take fashion courses at Brandeis? How did you integrate fashion into your academic curriculum?

JYL: At Brandeis, I majored in Economics and International Global Studies with a focus on media, communications and the arts. Even though I took courses in a range of disciplines, when a paper was assigned, I used it an opportunity to delve into fashion from multiple perspectives. I wrote about the impact of sustainable fashion and innovative ecommerce strategies in my Economics classes, customs surrounding the Korean national costume in my Anthropology class and the role of costuming in character development in Hitchcock’s Rear Window in my Philosophy class.

Studying fashion from these various angles accumulated to my senior thesis, which was fortunately awarded with highest honors. It’s really a tribute to the perks of Brandeis’ liberal arts education combined with my past internship experiences.

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DJs rock the stage at Blackout: the Party ■ Part concert, part party,

“Blackout” featured Saz.É, Ayan Sanyal ’14 and other DJs.

By JENNIFER IM JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Levin Ballroom quaked with house, techno, dubstep, hip-hop and electro music Friday night as four talented disc jockeys showcased their creative mixes at “Blackout: the Party.” The event was presented by B-DEIS Records, the on-campus music group that hosts music events and provides resources for Brandeis musicians.

Student Production Services and the Department of Public Safety helped put the event together by providing speakers and security. Rappers Saz.É (Osaze Akerejah ’14) and Ayan Sanyal ’14 were guest performers.

DJ Karma (Ross Newman ’14) kicked off the party with a variety of top-40 songs that featured popular artists Avicii, Alesso, David Guetta, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. Karma, who is also the treasurer of B-DEIS Records, inspired members of the audience to sing along with familiar songs in his mash-up of “Last Friday Night” by Katy Perry and “Stereo Love” by Edward Maya. After his performance, Saz.É and Sanyal performed a rap they collaborated on, and which was released online after the performance.

Utilizing Traktor software with compact features and clear-cutting sounds, Dutch Damage (Jesse Vasquez ’13) reflected the style of electro house/ Dutch house. His influences include artists Afrojack, Chuckie and Sandro Silva.

At midnight, Kid Fish (Gil Jacobs ’14) presented the audience with an underground electro house taste, featuring songs by artists Boys Noize, Crookers and other musicians that many people may not have heard of.

Kid Fish, who started DJing when he was 16 after taking mixing classes in

his hometown of Los Angeles, utilized mini controllers with the software and hardware system Serato ITCH. Kid Fish expressed uncertainty in what he was going to perform that night, but he was confident that his performance would get the audience pumped up.

“I have no idea what I’m going to play tonight, … but I’m going to play music that no one has ever heard before,” Kid Fish said. “I’m going to get people to say, ‘Wow, what is this, I can’t stop dancing. I’ve never heard this before,’ [and] get them grooving.”

Octokyu (Mike Hwang ’12), the winner of this semester’s Battle of the Brandeis DJs, performed last. Though at the Battle of the Brandeis DJs he had performed primarily mainstream music, at Blackout he mashed songs taken from 30 to 40 independent artists he had learned about from blogs.

Utilizing Virtual DJ and Ableton programs and Numark NS7 hardware, he reminded the audience why he won the DJ battle. His unique and wide-ranging taste in electronic dance music, dubstep, electronica, hip-hop, house, dubstep and trip-hop was incorporated into a creative mash-up that had the audience fist pumping. “[This time] I want to show songs by independent artists from blogs, and kind of try to help spread their music,” Oktokyu said. “I truly respect what they do.”

B-DEIS Records President Kevin Leonard ’14 talked about the hard work done by the club to put together for the event. Learning from last year’s event, which was called “Snow White,” the club worked hard to reduce the hidden costs and charged less for tickets.

“The goal of this year is to showcase DJ talent and provide them with a venue to show the campus what they’re about,” Leonard said.

B-DEIS Records hopes to continue this tradition as they encourage the growing DJ presence on campus.

Editor’s note: Ayan Sanyal ’14 is a JustArts contributing writer.

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PORTABLE NOISE: Modern DJs spin their beats on computer programs such as Serato ITCH and Virtual DJ, not records.

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Palestinian performers discuss their theater work ■ The Jenin Freedom Theater,

the first public theater in the West Bank, helps young people find a purpose.

By ARIEL KAY JUSTICE EDITOR

A refugee camp isn’t the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of creative or nurturing environments. And it’s not. But the performers of the Jenin Freedom Theater, located in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank, have created a space where art flourishes amid strife and squalor.

Last Tuesday evening, four performers from the Jenin Freedom Theater came to the atrium of Mandel Center for the Humanities. All of them had been personally affected by the violence that they have seen as refugees living in the camp, which covers an area of two square miles and houses about 16,000 people. The performers were angry with the Israeli Army for its brutal treatment of the inhabitants of Jenin. They hoped to create positive change through their art.

Josh Perlstein ’79, one of the organizers of the event, shared his view of the goal of the Freedom Theater in a phone interview with justArts.

“The goal of the theater is to use theater as a means of liberation, for Palestinians and for all people. If people could focus their fear through a process of creation, it would move people in a positive direction. They are trying to humanize the people in the theater and anyone who they interact with. If you act as a liberator, you liberate all people, not just yourself.”

The theater’s first incarnation was known as the Stone Theater. An Israeli woman named Arna Mer came to the Jenin Refugee Camp originally as the founder of the relief organiza-

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ARTISTIC FREEDOM: Members of the Jenin Freedom Theater hope to provide an artistic outlet for their people’s fear and anger. tion Defense of Children under Occupation. One of the Jenin actors, Mustapha, recounted the story of Mer’s first days in the camp: “Arna showed up one day, an Israeli woman in the middle of the West Bank. She just came with papers and other arts supplies and started engaging with the young children in the street. At first, people thought she was a spy. Then, a woman named Samira decided, ‘I will host this woman. She will live in my house.’ She could see that Arna was just [trying to help the children].

From that day on, everyone trusted Arna.”

Established in 1992 during the first Intifada, a guerilla war between Israel and its Palestinian inhabitants, the Stone Theater was the first public theater to be built in the West Bank. The theater was destroyed by Israeli soldiers, along with much of the camp, in 2000, during the second Intifada. Most of the theater students, primarily students, died in the

attack. Mer’s son, Juliano Mer-Khamis, rebuilt the theater in 2006 and renamed it the Jenin Freedom Theater. Mer-Khamis was an established Israeli actor and director. In 2002, he was nominated for an Ophir Award (the Israeli version of an Oscar) for Best Actor in the film Kedma, which was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

After the death of his mother in 1995, Mer-Khamis became personally involved in the Stone Theater’s work. After rebuilding the theater, he moved to Jenin to become more involved. The performers couldn’t speak highly enough of their mentor on Tuesday night. “Juliano was creating individual freedom in the Jenin Refugee Camp. That can be very dangerous,” said one speaker. The others agreed that they would still be “street punks” or small-time criminals if it wasn’t for Mer-Khamis.

These comments were overshadowed by a depressed spirit among the Jen-

in representatives: Mer-Khamis was assassinated by an unknown gunman on April 4 this year. The theater community is still recovering from the shocking murder.

As part of the talk, the performers showed clips from some of their recent performances, including a retelling of Alice in Wonderland and an original production called Fragments of Palestine. These clips did not show dialogue from the plays (which are written in or translated into Arabic) but rather dances, fight scenes or scenes set to music.

“The performers chose material that fits with the theme of liberation,” Perlstein clarified. “They assigned different characters in the play that are analogous to characters from their lives. They translate or adapt various works to fit with their own experiences.”

Some of the members of the audience at the event (mostly older people from outside of Brandeis)

criticized the clips for containing too much violence. One woman asked if the theater was trying to end the violence in the camp or if they were just promoting it in a different medium.

“I don’t think you understood the clips if you think we are promoting violence,” Mustapha responded.

“The actors in the theater take what they see in their daily lives and put it on stage.” Another performer agreed, “Theater becomes a refugee for … the people of Jenin. It’s therapy. When people come to the theater, they see what is in their heads.”

The four performers themselves have all been “saved” by the theater. One performer recalled that he was a petty criminal, stealing cars and selling drugs, but that he really wanted to be an actor. So he went to Mer-Khamis for a part in the theater. Since then, the young man has immersed his life entirely in acting.

He recounted that he would go about his day and “go to parties in costume and in character.” It became a part of his daily life.

Perlstein added his own view of the work the theater has accomplished in Jenin: “You can tell just from the people who came to speak how much the Theater has affected them. Their options were very limited. They were all headed down a negative path, and the theater gave them options to see different ways to live their lives. In a communitybased theater, it becomes inspirational. In the largest sense for the people involved but also for the audience. If they keep going the way they are they could have a huge impact on the neighborhood.”

The talk on Tuesday was part of a tour the company is doing to promote their work overseas. They will next be performing Waiting for Godot at Columbia University and will be appearing at a benefit at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York, hosted by the established playwright Tony Kushner.

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Groups sing out in first Acatoberfest ■ Starving Artists brought

off-campus a cappella groups to Golding Auditorium last week in its new event.

By wei-huan chen JUSTICE editor

Last Sunday, five a cappella groups from Boston-area colleges—as well as The Poor Richards, who hail from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.—performed in the Golding Auditorium as part of Starving Artists’ first annual Acatoberfest.

The Poor Richards; Vocal Suspects from University of MassachusettsAmherst; the M&Cs from Mount Holyoke College; and the Treblemakers and Distilled Harmony, both from Boston University, gave performances that included a variety of R & B, pop, spiritual, Broadway, hip-hop and funk songs.

“We always learn from other groups when we listen to a cappella,” says Starving Artists Events Coordinator Ellyn Getz ’13, who organized the event. “We put a lot of focus into our dynamics and blend, and hearing other groups that have mastered that meticulous task in a piece of music is extremely noteworthy and impressive. There’s always room for growth.”

Seeing groups from other schools perform not only gave the a cappella singers at the event a wider perspective of collegiate a cappella but also created a musical bond not found at regular coffeehouses, which don’t usually specialize in only a cappella.

When Boston Unversity’s Treblemakers announced that it was one of their singers’ birthdays, Starving Artists pointed out that Marlee Rosenthal ’14 was also celebrating her birthday.

The result? An impressively unified chorus of “Happy Birthday,”

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SAILING AWAY: A singer from Boston University’s Distilled Harmony belts out a solo during the group’s medley of Styx songs. Five other groups performed at Acatoberfest. complete with four-part harmony and attention to dynamics. For a moment, everyone in the room relished in the fact that they were all singers.

Each group seemed to save its best song for last, such as Distilled Harmony’s energetic and hilarious Styx medley in the final act of its show.

The singers’ exaggerated gestures in “Mr. Roboto” and “Come Sail Away” filled the room with laughter.

Getz is excited to continue the tradition of bringing outside groups to campus. “I’m extremely pleased with the turnout for our first Acatoberfest,” she says. “Groups have already contacted Starving Artists asking to be a part of the festival next year, and I was also able to speak with administrators at Brandeis about allocating more funding as we continue to host off-campus groups. The event was an

overall success, and I look forward to SA continuing the tradition next year.”

Getz started Starving Artists’ concluding set with a bang with a solo in Heather Small’s “Proud.” Abby Armstrong ’13, who was responsible for contacting the groups at Acatoberfest; Lisa Berger ‘12, who soloed in Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats”; and Jordan Brown ’12, who

had dyed red hair that matched the group’s black and red outfits, also gave memorable performances to close the show.

“I always knew that a cappella was something that I wanted to get involved with at college,” says Getz, who looks forward to next year’s Acatoberfest. “There’s something about the fusion of voices that truly brings depth and candor to a song.”

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Student chefs compete in “Ramen Time” ■ BAASA hosted an ‘Iron-

Chef’-style cook-off last Friday in which eight teams duked it out for first place.

The secret ingredient?

Ramen noodles, of course.

By leanne ortbals JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Eight teams battled it out in the Intercultural Center Lounge last Friday to claim the title of the first “Epic Ramen Time” champions in the competition sponsored by the Brandeis Asian American Students Association. The Iron Chefstyle cook-off was divided into two rounds with four teams cooking at a time. Each round lasted 25 minutes. The dishes were presented anonymously to the panel of judges, composed of five students from the

BAASA executive board and five student guests.

Before the event, the judges specified four categories for evaluating the dishes: “We have a judging sheet based off presentation, creativity, taste and use of the secret ingredient,” which was tofu, announced judge and BAASA Co-treasurer Adam Chow ’12. “The categories are weighted so taste is the most important factor. All the judges will score the dishes and then we will add them up to determine the winner.”

“25 minutes” was written on the chalkboard, and the countdown began. Teams Snickerdoodle, SEAC, Koreans in Da House and Domination started off in round one.

Host and BAASA Intercultural Center Representative Ruizhi Jiang ’14, interviewed the chefs as they cooked, like host Alton Brown on Iron Chef America. Between rounds, he gave a rundown of the first four teams’ performances. “The strang-

est combination I’ve seen is lemon and spicy ramen. The teams are being very creative. One team made a unique curry dish popular in northern China. They cooked the ramen in hot water, washed it with cold water and added ice. Then, they put tofu, the secret ingredient in there,” Jiang commented.

Two of the first round participants, Brian Le ’14 and Kevin Wang ’14 from Team SEAC, named after the Southeast Asia Club, used an interesting approach to get the judges’ attention. “Our strategy was Spam and eggs. As much protein as possible.” said Wang. “We also used soy sauce, tofu and hot sauce. We fried the tofu. It’s common to go with meat.”

Le and Wang’s two other team members, Aaron Yang ’14 and Brian Sipin ’12, helped finish their dish in the allotted time. “The time limit wasn’t bad. We finished on time but I can’t say the same for some of the

other teams,” said Le. “The cooking was the best part with the time winding down, the pressure building, and being in the moment. We don’t really do any cooking outside of this since I live in East [Quad] and Kevin lives in [Usen] Castle, but I think we did well and have a shot at winning.“ Though Team SEAC showed their enthusiasm, the winning team came from round two. Teams ICC Peanut Butter, Miso Impossible, Cool Beans and Panda battled for the win in the second 25-minute showdown. After all the scores were tallied up, Team Panda was crowned the winner of “Epic Ramen Time.” Team Panda’s members cooked a spicy ramen dish with eggs, pepperoni, roast beef, bok choy and, of course, tofu. Their dish excelled in the creativity category by forming animal shapes, such as pandas, using the pepperoni and other ingredients.

Team Panda members won BAA-

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COOK-OFF: Oliver Ling ’14 prepares ingredients for his team’s ramen noodle soup.

SA shirts and EZ passes to use for the rest of the year. “The EZ pass allows students to cut in line for food if they come to any featured BAASA events. It’s pretty cool,” said Ruizhi.

Even though only one team took home the title, the night was about more than the cook-off. “There are nearly 40 contestants, but there are also general BAASA members here because we are showing a movie after the event,” said Chow. The God of Cookery was chosen as the film of choice via a Facebook poll on the BAASA page. Guests seemed to enjoy the film which helped to make “Epic Ramen Time” another successful BAASA event.

For their next event, BAASA has invited Jubilee Project to visit campus on Oct. 21 in the Olin-Sang auditorium. Jubilee Project makes videos to raise funds and awareness for deserving causes. Visit the BAASA website, http://people.brandeis. edu/~baasa/ for more information.

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ASIAN CUISINES: Kevin Wang ’14 (left) and Aaron Yang ’14 finish up a version of ramen noodles amid the hectic competition.

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Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! and Zanois perform ■ Zanois, consisting of

Justice McDaniel ’12 and his family, opened for the techno-rock band Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! last Sunday at Cholmondeley’s.

By ayan sanyal JUSTICE contributing WRITER

A Sunday night in the middle of midterms may be the worst time to play a show at Brandeis. Or maybe it’s the best time. What better way to relieve the stress of exams than by joining a crazy dance party with sing-along lyrics? That is exactly what went down at Cholmondeley’s Oct. 9 when Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! headlined with Zanois, one of Brandeis’ own rock power trios.

Zanois opened the set with their loud, eclectic blend of punk and in-

die rock. Lead singer Zane McDaniel (Justice McDaniel’s ’12 younger brother) impressed the audience with his ability to sing and play the bass guitar and keyboards simultaneously. Justice is one of the senior presidents of the Punk, Rock n’ Roll Club. I was surprised to see an older man beating on the drums but soon realized that Justice’s other bandmate was his father, Gavin McDaniel. The casting choice essentially captures the aesthetic of the family band. Zanois was extremely loud but offered ear plugs. They played hip indie rock but still maintained some oldies roots.

At one point, lead singer Zane yelled “Why” repeatedly until even I felt hoarse, and I realized that, while my obscure tastes allowed me to keep listening, Zanois would probably not appeal to our top-40-loving general population. However, their passion was clear, and Zanois successfully graced the small crowd of Brandeisians with their weird take

on pop music.

While the headlining act, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt!, was setting up, I became extremely curious. The stage was abandoned, and the floor of Chum’s started to morph into a psychedelic happy house. Colorful curtains were put up around the room, and I spotted many inflatable objects, including a snowman, teddy bear and pumpkin. It was unbelievable that they did these crazy performances for a living. TPDR’s goal was to create a temporary space for childhood recollections while dancing like crazy and singing extremely uplifting lyrics about true love and friendship—and they succeeded.

I’m not much of a dancer, but even I could not curl up on the couch and simply watch the party. I abandoned my notebook to join the crowd in a night of absurdity.

The band’s setup was relatively simple. There was a portable strobe light and a computer with background music and a live drummer,

guitarist and singer. Combined with a small but energetic audience, the results were magical. The lead singer, Neil Fridd, walked and danced through the audience while teaching the lyrics to his songs. The band wasn’t performing to the audience but rather with the audience. Barefoot and wearing only a red dress, Fridd had willing audience members assist with crazy stage antics.

While Dustin McCormick stayed glued to the drums, the guitarist, Sven Tadhg, took the participants behind the curtains. He quickly returned with a five-person homemade dragon costume, or a series of jackets that were tied together with epileptic Christmas lights, making a fantastic moving light show. While TPDR’s stage antics and presence were entirely unique, most of their music started with a simple piano or synthesizer riff and slowly built up to epic proportions before coming down. The formula worked, though, and I was instantly a fan. It was hard

not to be swept into the dancing circles with the loud techno-rock blasting. Everyone was having so much fun.

One song, titled “Snowday!,” instantly brought me back to my childhood, waking up early to catch the weather report and then drinking hot chocolate under the covers all day. That’s what good music does. It brings you back to a moment in your life that you had long forgotten, and it makes you feel something.

After many thanks by the lead singer, the small crowd at Chum’s reluctantly departed, probably to finally start studying for the midterms ahead. As I walked back from the crazy concert, I looked towards the even crazier week ahead with a sense of confidence. After all, as Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt! sang over and over again in their last song, “We’re alive and we’re in love and we’ve got hope, just because.” That sounds like a chorus that I could get used to.

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DIRE STRAITS: Oscar Isaac plays Standard, Irene’s (Mulligan) troubled husband.

SPEED DEMON: Ryan Gosling showcases his boy-next-door charm as well as his aptitude for serious drama in ‘Drive.’

Gosling, Mulligan blaze through ‘Drive’ ■ Nicolas Winding Refn’s

tense and stylish thriller is not afraid to hit the viewer in the gut with its scenes.

By alex Desilva JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Going off the premise alone, you’d be forgiven for dismissing Drive as a mindless action movie.

You can practically hear the hyperserious trailer voiceover: “Ryan Gosling is a stuntman by day, getaway driver by night. But when the mob goes after the woman he loves, he’s going to have to stop running and start … to drive.” Luckily, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn is simply too good to fall into that trap and turns Drive into a slowburning caper, injecting it with a unique style that’s both a throwback to the cheesy action movies of the ’80s while also serving as a love letter to older chase films like Bullit, as well as ’70s neo-noir.

Drive’s story is fairly simple;

Ryan Gosling plays a terse, unnamed mechanic and part-time Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for heists. He works anonymously, severing ties with his clients the minute he arrives at his destination. The only other person he really interacts with is his employer at the garage, Shannon (Bryan Cranston), a smarmy mechanic whose dreams of wealth seem to be proportional to his luck. This stable, solitary existence is shaken by two things. First, Gosling’s character befriends and develops feelings for his next-door neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a young mother whose husband is currently in prison. Second, Shannon has decided that the Driver would be perfect for the NASCAR circuit and asks for sponsorship from mobster Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) and his foul-mouthed partner, Nino (a terrifying Ron Perlman). For a while, the Driver is in a good place with all this, until Irene’s husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), is released early from prison. He wants to get

away from his old life of crime but still owes protection money to a local mobster. When the mobsters threaten to go after Irene and her son, the Driver volunteers his efforts to help Standard get through one last heist.

Since this is a crime film, things go horribly wrong. Standard is gunned down, and the Driver is suddenly thrown into a race to find out who set him up and how to keep them away from Irene. Trying to do the right thing, he travels through Los Angeles’ underground on a crusade to protect the people he’s grown to care about.

In all, Drive has a fairly straightforward mystery plot. There are a couple of twists here and there, but this isn’t The Departed. At the end of the day, you know where everybody stands. But Drive is proof that simple doesn’t mean boring. Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini have crafted a tightly wound thriller, characterized by stretches of gut-wrenching wait punctuated by short bursts of violence. The action is short and almost mechani-

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cal in its efficiency. Even the chase scenes are short-lived, all the while being far more interesting than the long, drawn-out chases that define series like The Fast and the Furious. In the film, the violence that is seen is brutal. Quick shots of gore and close-ups on wounds show just how high the stakes have become for the Driver.

One of the most interesting parts of the film might just be the Driver himself. Ryan Gosling owns the role, giving him an air of likeability despite doing most of his acting through body language. He’s just too mysterious to be anything other than intriguing. The Driver doesn’t have any backstory, knows no one outside of Shannon and does nothing with his free time that doesn’t involve cars. Even his apartment is completely bare save for a desk he uses to work on engine parts. You get the feeling that Irene and her son are the only things he actually cares about, or, at the very least, the only people who get him to show something akin to happiness. Just as memorable is L.A.

kingpin Bernie Rose. Comedian Albert Brooks plays against his type here, and he performs masterfully.

Unlike most movie gangsters, Rose doesn’t really like killing people; it’s just an unfortunate aspect of his job. Granted, he’s pretty adept at finding new and painful ways to end his rivals’ lives, but he doesn’t revel in it. He just shakes his head and gets on with his life, which is ultimately what makes him all the more unpredictable. On the other end of the spectrum is Nino, Rose’s second-in-command. He’s big, angry and is played by Ron Perlman, which, as anyone who’s seen Sons of Anarchy knows, is not good news for anyone who might be in his way.

All this comes together to make an experience that sticks with the audience long after the movie has ended. Sure, it might not be as deep as more cerebral offerings like Tree of Life, but it is still one of the most engaging films this year. Instead of aiming for the brain, Drive goes straight for the gut and hits its target masterfully.

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‘Centipede’ overkills with tasteless gore ■ Tom Six’s ‘The Human

Centipede II: Full Sequence’ is more disgusting, gory and contrived than the original.

By Diego Medrano JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Every now and then I find myself asking how and why I ended up somewhere. Blind dates, sweatstorm frat parties, swimming pools of hotels that I’m not staying in, bad concerts of bands that haven’t been famous in 30 years, any sporting event not played by professionals (e.g. Little League) and all sorts of other non-ideal situations crowd my life. Usually I get through these situations with the idea that it will one day make a funny story or that I was attempting something noble.

But when I find myself staring up at a screen filled with bloodied humans crawling around a warehouse on hands and knees while stapled and duct-taped to each other from mouth to rectum and it’s 10 a.m. on a Monday morning, it’s a little tough to see the silver lining.

The worst part is that I did this to myself. What did I expect? I knew I wasn’t getting Casablanca when I walked into Human Centipede II: Full Sequence (despite both being in black-and-white), but I really, really didn’t expect the movie to be this bad. No, not bad. Bad would be funnier. I didn’t expect the movie to be quite as vile and tastelessly contrived. Director Tom Six’s original Human Centipede: First Sequence, however stupid, left more to the imagination, working more as a laughably cheesy spine-tingler than a self-indulgent piece of tortureporn.

This time, the movie follows Martin Lomax (Laurence R. Harvey), a middle-aged, lowly parking garage attendant who lives with his abusive mother in the dreariest apartment in the U.K. He pretty much sweats his way through the first 20 minutes, then, you know, attempts surgery. We learn that his mother (Vivien Bridson) blames him for having his father put in jail—albeit for molesting his son—and she spends her screen time telling Martin that she wants him dead. Martin finds his only escape in watching the first Human Centipede over and over and even keeps an adorably (not really) crafted scrapbook of cutouts from the movie. Meta, right?

It may be, but this movie shoves

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MANIAC KILLER: Martin Lomax (Laurence R. Harvey) is a parking garage attendant who is obsessed with the first ‘Human Centipede’ and decides to act out its atrocities. meta down our throats relentlessly.

Martin goes so far as to get one of the main actresses from the first film to be a part of his new centipede by luring her in under the guise of an audition for a Quentin Tarantino movie. By the way, the actress, Ashlynn Yennie, is astoundingly bad at playing herself, or she’s simply someone who I would never want to be around in person—both may be true. At one point Martin awkwardly embraces a picture of the doctor/ villain from the first film, and you can almost see Tom Six grinning right off camera at his own cleverness.

Scenes like the one previously mentioned actually provide the movie’s laughs, of which there is

one about every seven minutes until the second half. But the laughs in this movie never feel intentional and are usually the result of blatant overacting.

By the second half of the movie, all dialogue is abandoned (unless you count groans), and the film becomes as dark as the warehouse in which the victims are stored. We watch as Martin attempts to outdo his hero by increasing the size of the centipede from three people to twelve. Unlike the first film that had a surgeon performing his demented experiment, Martin has no qualifications (who does, really?) and replaces medical equipment with duct tape, a staple gun, a hammer and the like. If the first movie’s

tagline was “100% medically accurate,” this film’s tagline could be “100% doable using only supplies found at Home Depot.”

I really tried to give this movie a chance, and for a bit, Tom Six had me fooled. The first half is surprisingly artsy, but Tom Six seems afraid to commit to one extreme until the second half, in which he commits too much. At one point, I found myself feeling for Martin and his situation, and while he’s about as creepy as they come, no one deserves his life. I remember thinking that the movie had me more compelled than I ever expected to be.

When Martin kills his first victim, we see a splatter of blood à la Hitchcock, and it works surprisingly

well. I was, dare I say, impressed?

The movie seemed to be balancing horror and art about as well as you could hope for in a movie titled The Human Centipede II: Full Sequence.

But Tom Six doesn’t care about impressing his audience and cares even less about impressing critics.

Only 30 seconds after artfully killing the first victim, Six shifts back to what he does best as we see Martin’s next kill in full detail with the camera never cutting away. Still, these kills can be found in any Saw film and Six knows that. Immediately following the kill, Martin begins pleasuring himself using sandpaper. And if that hasn’t convinced you not to see this movie, nothing will.

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‘Gears of War 3’ refines series’ intuitive formula Dan

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Back in 2006, designer Cliff Bleszinski and then-small studio Epic Games released the original Gears of War as an Xbox 360 exclusive. The game became an instant bestseller, and the franchise propelled sales of the console alongside other highly lauded exclusives such as Halo.

Four years and two sequels later, Gears of War 3 ends the trilogy, concluding an epic story in which humanity’s fate is uncertain.

Players once again take on the role of Marcus Fenix as he attempts to eliminate the Locust, a race of subterranean monsters set on destroying the earth-like world of Sera and its human inhabitants, while also taking on the Lambent, a wave of infected, zombie-like Locust with seemingly similar ambitions.

Of course, Marcus isn’t alone, as the rest of his team—Delta Squad—rejoins him on this epic mission.

Gears of War 3 isn’t just a culmination of Delta Squad’s story: It’s a tribute to everything that made the series such a success. Epic Games has invested a lot of time and effort into the development of this game and it shows. The game features

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MULTIPLAYER MAYHEM: Epic Games’ final installment of ‘Gears of War’ features large environments and exciting battle modes. some of the most intuitive-feeling gameplay mechanics I’ve encountered. While the series has always played well, some animations in previous iterations felt a bit stiff and mechanical. However, Epic Games has worked hard on this, and the gameplay of Gears of War 3 simply feels great. The graphics are also incredibly polished. While the character models look more or less the same, as they have throughout the series, the environments have

become significantly more detailed, and Epic Games has made the wise decision of employing the entire color palette this time around, moving away from the dreary dark-brown and black that characterized the previous games. Gears of War 3 was designed to be a blockbuster holiday hit, and it looks and plays like one.

The game also boasts much better pacing and even more massive setpiece encounters.

While Gears of War 3 has never

been known for its great plot, and in fact has even been criticized for its shallow storyline, the game does a good job tying up loose ends. Although most gamers won’t care, the game seems to answer most fans’ questions and wrap up the story in a satisfying way. The dialogue is chock-full of incredibly cheesy action movie quips as the members of Delta Squad seem to be competing for the most macho attitude.

At the same time, this has always

been a part of the Gears experience, and had Epic tried to do something else, it just wouldn’t have felt like a Gears game. The game is over the top, without a doubt, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously, and the characters’ exchanges are almost always good for a laugh.

Gears of War 3 also boasts a fantastic online component. Most of the online modes are carried over from the previous games in the series, but with tightened gameplay and new maps, Gears fans should be satisfied for quite a while. Gears of War 3 also boasts the all-new “Beast” mode, which puts players in the shoes of Locust enemies as they attempt to defeat a small band of human soldiers. Players earn money based on their success in battle, allowing them to buy more powerful monsters to use, all of which feature different controls and attributes.

The new mode makes an excellent addition to an already robust online offering.

Gears of War 3 doesn’t take many risks or make many bold moves; it’s a solid, if fairly predictable, finale to one of the better series on the Xbox 360. Those who haven’t had a chance to play a previous Gears game will find a lot to like here, and fans of the previous games won’t be disappointed. It would have been nice to see Epic push the boundaries a little bit more, but when you’re dealing with such a well-liked franchise, a decision to stay the course can still lead to great results. In this case, it did. I give Gears of War 3 an 8.5/10.

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TRIVIA TIME 1. Which religious text is divided into chapters called “suras”?

2. When did the War of 1812 end?

3. The character Jim Phelps starred in which long-running spy drama?

4. What kind of instrument is a dulcimer?

5. What is the standard currency of Vietnam?

6. Who was Time Magazine’s Person of the Century in 1999?

7. Where is the Baltic Sea located?

8. What is “necrosis”?

9. Where is the geyser Old Faithful located?

10. What 1970s film’s theme song was titled “Evergreen”?

ANSWERS 1. Quran 2. 1815 3. Mission: Impossible 4. Stringed instrument played with hammers 5. Dong 6. Albert Einstein 7. Northern Europe 8. Death of body tissue 9. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 10. A Star is Born

SHOWTIMES 10/21-10/27 Paranormal Activity 3 Fri-Sun: 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Thurs: 2:40, 5:10, 8:20 50/50 Fri-Sun: 1:25, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Mon-Thurs: 2:30, 5:00 Footloose Fri-Sun: 1:05, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Thurs: 2:10, 4:50, 7:50 The Three Musketeers Fri-Sun: 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25 Mon-Thurs: 2:00, 4:50, 7:40 The Ides of March Fri-Sun: 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Thurs: 2:20, 5:00, 8:00 Moneyball Fri-Sun: 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Thurs: 2:50, 7:30

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A FLOCK OF GREECE: Justice Associate Editor Robyn Spector ’13 took this photograph of a local woman feeding pigeons in the town square of Chalkida, the chief town of the Euboea island in Greece.

ACROSS 1. Trudge 5. Serenade the moon 8. No-no for a vegan 12. Wash 13. One’s years 14. Wheel bar 15. Satanic 16. “Location” for one in disfavor 18. Meanie 20. Wine glass 21. Three- — sloth 23. Mr. Sajak 24. Bent over, as a page corner 28. Cook in the oven 31. “CSI” evidence 32. Reservation home 34. “To be or — ...”

35. Examination 37. Doctrinaire 39. Trail behind 41. Donkey’s pin-on 42. Expressed a feeling 45. Perfect place 49. Comical poetry 51. Quest 52. Reverberate 53. Every last bit 54. Saxophone range 55. Drunkards 56. “See ya” 57. Feed the hogs DOWN 1. Commoner 2. Volcanic outflow 3. Roman love poet 4. Strike from the text 5. Harassed 6. Past 7. Safecracker 8. Tropical tree 9. Showing great joy 10. Otherwise 11. Yard components 17. Leap 19. Capricorn 22. Train station 24. Banned pesticide 25. Individual

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Nonfiction 1. Killing Lincoln — Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 2. Boomerang — Michael Lewis 3. Seriously ... I’m Kidding — Ellen DeGeneres 4. This is Herman Cain! — Herman Cain 5. Jaqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy — Caroline Kennedy and Michael Beschloss

iTUNES

1. Adele — “Someone Like You” 2. Foster the People — “Pumped Up Kicks” 3. LMFAO — “Sexy and I Know It” 4. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris — “We Found Love” 5. Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera — “Moves like Jagger (Studio Recording from The Voice)” 6. Gym Class Heroes feat. Adam Levine — “Stereo Hearts” 7. David Guetta feat. Usher — “Without You” 8. Cobra Starship feat. Sabi — “You Make Me Feel...”

9. Lady Gaga — “Yoü and I” 10. LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock — “Party Rock Anthem”

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33. Send forth 36. Ballroom dances 38. Hawaiian welcomes 40. “Golly!”

42. Praiseful verses 43. Somewhat, in music 44. Colorless 46. Yank 47. Division word 48. On 50. TV Tarzan portrayer

1. Scotty McCreery — Clear as Day 2. Adele — 21 3. Tony Bennett — Duets II 4. Lady Antebellum — Own the Night 5. J. Cole — Cole World: The Sideline Story 6. Lil Wayne — Tha Carter IV 7. Feist — Metals 8. Rodney Atkins — Take a Back Road 9. Jack’s Mannequin — People and Things 10. Blink-182 — Neighborhoods Top of the Charts information provided

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STRANGE BUT TRUE  It was 20th-century Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith who made the following sage observation: “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”

 You probably know that physicist Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize. You might not realize, however, that the prize was for his work on the photoelectric effect of light, not for his more famous theory of relativity.

 The original jack-o’-lanterns were turnips, not pumpkins. The custom began in Ireland, where residents hollowed out and carved faces into large turnips for the Celtic harvest festival of Samhain. The turnips, placed on windowsills, were believed to ward off evil spirits. In Scotland, young men would dress in white and blacken their faces in an imitation of the dead.

 If you are like the average American woman, you will spend a grand total of 60 days of your life in the practice of removing body hair.

 Peter the Great was known during his reign in the late 17th and early 18th centuries as “Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.” In order to raise money, he taxed just about anything he could think of, including births, burials, chimneys and even beards.  By law, if you are planning to build a structure in Washington, D.C., the edifice must be no taller than the Capitol building.

 In 2010, the record for the world’s largest pumpkin was broken. The Atlantic giant pumpkin, grown by Chris Stevens of New Richmond, Wisc., weighed in at the Stillwater Harvest Fest at a whopping 1,810.5 pounds.  “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt.”

Thought for the Day: “You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”

—Sam Levenson

By EMILY KRAUS

Justice EDITor IN CHIEF

I‘ve loved each of these songs at one point for one reason or another. This list is basically my Pandora station’s “Greatest Hits”— a bunch of songs that never seem to get old to me.

THE LIST 1.f “Arms of a Woman” — Amos Lee 2. “Somebody That I Used to Know” — Gotye 3. “Amie” — Damien Rice 4. “Forever My Friend” — Ray LaMontagne 5. “Yoü and I” — Lady Gaga 6. “True Affection” — The Blow 7. “Samson” — Regina Spektor 8. “Hannah” — Freelance Whales 9. “O Valencia!” — The Decemberists 10. “Dream a Little Dream of Me” — The Mamas and the Papas