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A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCES

Hillel director departs, Board to fill position ■ Hillel Executive Director

Larry Sternberg M.A. ’78 announced that he is leaving his position after more than 30 years at Brandeis.

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Executive Director of Hillel Larry Sternberg M.A. ’78 is leaving his position “with deep regret” after spending more than 30 years here as a student, faculty member and staff member.

The announcement of Sternberg’s departure first came on Friday in an email from Louis Benjamin ’78 and Harry Waizer, co-presidents of the Hillel Board of Directors.

Later that evening, Sternberg sent out an email of his own, confirming the announcement.

“I have learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues

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POWER OF THE PEN: Finney Boylan read excerpts from her work at the 10th annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture last Thursday.

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LGBTQ activist Jennifer Finney Boylan delivered the 10th annual Eleanor Roosevelt lecture Tuesday.

By marissa ditkOwsky JUSTICE editor

Last Tuesday, author and activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer issues Jennifer Finney Boylan delivered the 10th annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture.

Finney Boylan was able to speak about her own experiences as a transgender woman.

Finney Boylan explained that in the 1970s when she was growing up, it was more difficult to tell if someone was gay or transgender. However, it is not as difficult today, she said. “We learn about other people through their stories and through experiences,” she said, and currently, members of the LGBTQ population are now “living their lives

out loud.”

Finney Boylan proceeded to read an excerpt from her autobiography She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, titled “In the Early Morning Rain,” that was used and slightly reworked for the It Gets Better anthology, a collection of stories and works compiled by the It Gets Better Project. The excerpt spoke about her trip to Nova Scotia, during which she accepted herself, and was able to reflect on her life.

“I thought about how I was female in spirit,” Finney Boylan read.

Finney Boylan recalled looking in the mirror, dressed as a female, and seeing “a relatively normallooking young woman.”

Confused about her life, Finney Boylan was in a position to jump off of a cliff. However, the wind blew Finney Boylan back and prevented her from falling over. She then accepted herself and returned home.

After reading the excerpt, Finney Boylan educated the audience on what it means to be transgender.

She said that being an ally for transgender individuals “can be

and the most from my students,” Sternberg wrote, quoting Talmud.

In an interview with the Justice, Waizer did not comment on the reasons for Sternberg leaving, saying “we are all Sternberg sorry to see him go.”

Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel said in an interview that the Hillel Board is autonomous when it comes to decisions like this one.

“I’m confident that whatever decisions that Larry and the Hillel Board [of Directors] reached … with the best interests of the University and the student body in mind,” he said.

Waizer said that “the change in leadership is a time to re-examine, so that’s one of the things we are doing.

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a hard job” because being transgender “means so many different things.” She explained that transgender is more of an umbrella term, and that all transgender people are different in what they want or what they think of themselves.

Finney Boylan listed a few types of transgender individuals, including female to male or male to female transsexuals, cross-dressers, drag kings or queens and gender-queer individuals. “All the ways of being trans are cool,” she said. “We’re all humans, and each of us is coming at this a slightly different way.”

After Finney Boylan finished speaking, she opened up the floor for questions. A member of the audience asked if, as a woman, Finney Boylan had experienced sexism.

In response, Finney Boylan said, “Most of the male to female [transsexuals] that have succeeded ... are people who, when they were malebodied, identified as feminists.”

Finney Boylan continued to answer the question, recalling an experience she had after perform-

■ The renovation will take

place over winter break and the new dining location will be open by the start of the spring semester in January.

By SAMANTHA TOPPER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

By the beginning of the spring 2014 semester, Sodexo hopes to replace the Quiznos in Upper Usdan with a New York-style, kosher delicatessen, according to Jay DeGioia, Sodexo’s resident district manager for Brandeis.

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DeGioia said in an interview with the Justice that Sodexo began implementing early steps in plans for renovating the space last week, bringing in architects to assess plumbing and electricity. Renovations are scheduled to take place over the winter break between the fall and spring semesters, so that the new kosher dining option will be open by the time students return in January.

According to DeGioia, the delicatessen has yet to be named. Sodexo plans to work with students to come up with a suitable name, and DeGioia said Sodexo is open to suggestions, though he gave no specific method

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Community convenes

Road blues

Alum remembered

The prejudice response committee organized the first talk in a series about controversial issues.

 The Judges lost to conference foes Carnegie and Emory in UAA games.

Gustav Ranis ’52, Brandeis’ first-ever valedictorian, passed away Tuesday at 83.

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Rosenthal Quad Senator Zik resigns Rosenthal Quad Senator Eden Zik ‘16 resigned from his position on Oct. 18. In an email to the Justice, he cited “other engagements” and a desire not to “impair the Student Union as a whole” as his reasons for stepping down.

According to Student Union Vice President Charlotte Franco ’15, the position will remain empty until the beginning of next semester, when a round of elections for the midyear senator position and the unfilled off-campus senator position is already scheduled.

“I commend Eden for realizing that he was unable to fulfill the duties of being a senator and [resigning] versus maintaining the title without giving the position all of his effort,” wrote Franco in an email to the Justice.

“While he will be missed I think that this was the best solution for Eden and the Senate.”

At Sunday’s meeting, the Senate recognized three new clubs and discussed several current initiatives and issues on campus.

The meeting started with the Senate unanimously confirming the non-Senate committee chairs present at the meeting.

Following the confirmation, Mentors for Urban Debate, which would be under the umbrella organization of Boston Debate League, approached the Senate again a week after the vote to recognize the club was tabled due to some incomplete aspects of the constitution.

The purpose of the club would be to mentor students in debate, which would involve going into Boston to help the students prepare, running programs and hosting tournaments. The Senate unanimously recognized the club, which then requested chartering to pay fees to host events. The Senate voted unanimously to charter the club, as well.

Brandeis Secular Student Alliance, an affiliate of the national organization called Secular Student Alliance, also sought recognition on Sunday. The purpose of the club is to advocate for the separation of church and state; discuss secularism and act as a place to learn about atheism, agnosticism and humanism. Fourteen senators voted in favor of recognizing the club, none voted against recognition and five abstained.

Advertising Club was the final club to approach the Senate for recognition, and then chartering. The club would not only provide a service for other clubs seeking to advertise and act as a think tank to get the word out about events, but it would also be an educational club for discussing the advertisement world, using programs, effective methods and other related topics. The club was unanimously recognized.

Chartering was requested for networking events, although whether or not the club will charge other clubs for their services in order to cover material costs is still unclear. The Finance Board will define specifics. However, the club was still unanimously chartered.

During Franco’s report, she proposed changing the Senate meeting to an earlier time next semester. Discussion on the issue will continue.

During Executive Senator Annie Chen’s ’14 report, she said that a survey will be sent out to the student body regarding parking on campus. In addition, “Take your professor to lunch” will now cover coffee in addition to lunch.

A Senate Money Resolution was approved for a trip to Salem, Mass for the student body. The cost is $450 for the five hour event.

—Marissa Ditkowsky

POLICE LOG Medical Emergency

Oct. 14—A student at Lemberg Academic Center reported pain stemming from a past knee injury. BEMCo arrived to address the situation and the student ultimately was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Oct. 16—A student at Mailman House was sent to NewtonWellesley Hospital for a psych evaluation.

Oct. 17—A student reported that he broke his ankle outside Massell Quad. University Police and BEMCo responded, and the student was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Oct. 18—A student reported that a faculty member in the Abelson-Base-Yalem Building had been suffering from dizziness. University Police and BEMCo arrived on scene to respond to the patient, who seemed to have been suffering from high blood pressure and an elevated pulse rate. The faculty member was treated by

BEMCo with a signed refusal for further care.

Oct. 19—University Police notified a BEMCo unit of an intoxicated female outside Ridgewood Quad. BEMCo treated the patient, who was then transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Oct. 20—A BEMCo staff member phoned a BEMCo unit to treat an intoxicated female in the Foster Mods. University Police and BEMCo responded to the patient, who was then transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Larceny

Oct.14—A student reported credit card fraud at Stoneman Building. University Police arrived on scene to compile a report of the incident.

Oct. 16—A student arrived at the University Police station to report that his leather jacket had been stolen in Goldfarb Library. University Police compiled a report of the incident.

Oct. 17—A student reported that her backpack was stolen from the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. University Police searched for the bag while Library and Technology Services attempted to track her phone. LTS located the phone— and bag—in Goldfarb Library and obtained it without issue.

Oct. 16—A staff member from Facilities notified University Police that the entrance to a room within Renfield Hall had appeared to be defaced with human waste. University Police arrived to compile a report of the incident and Facilities Services promptly cleaned the affected area.

Vandalism

Miscellaneous

Oct.13—Waltham Police notified University Police that the Abraham Shapiro Academic Center had been vandalized with spray paint along with vehicles and other property on Thornton Road. University Police compiled a report and Facilities Services promptly removed the graffiti.

Oct. 13—A community advisor in North Quad notified University Police that the side of Reitman had been spraypainted with graffiti. University Police compiled a report and Facilities Services promptly removed the graffiti.

—compiled by Adam Rabinowitz

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Court ruling spurs debate

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Joseph’s shuttle service times change Last Tuesday, Student Union President Ricky Rosen ’14 and the Department of Public Safety announced upcoming changes in the schedule of the Friday shuttle to Boston and Cambridge. The updated schedule features buses every half hour between 3:30 and 10 p.m. to both Harvard Square in Cambridge and Beacon Street/Massachusetts Avenue in Boston.

Director of Public Safety Edward Callahan added in an interview with the Justice that “[t]he bus company has reviewed all ridership data of the Boston Cambridge shuttle and came up with this new Friday schedule to improve service.”

The changes are expected to be permanent, according to Rosen. “If students begin using the shuttles frequently during the new half-hour time slots, I see no reason why we would have to change it,” Rosen said.

According to Callahan, the funding for the shuttles comes from the University to the Department of Public Safety. However, the additional shuttles required extra funding. “Last year’s Student Union Treasury and Finance Board are funding the shuttle extensions in their entirety,” Rosen added.

Oct. 18—A student in Village B Residence reported that a suspicious person was aggressive and accosted him outside of the residence hall.

He followed the student inside, and while no further action had been initiated, the student notified University Police.

University Police conducted a sweep of the building and were unable to locate the suspect. The community development coordinator’s office was promptly notified and a report was compiled.

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Linda Bond, a scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, speaks at “22 Acts of Transformation.” The talk, held last Thursday, focused on the sexually provocative representation of women in contemporary media.

In the wake of the June Supreme Court ruling that narrowed but did not do away with affirmative action in college admissions, the Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to using race as a factor in college admissions to increase campus diversity.

In a letter to college and university presidents, the Departments of Education and Justice reminded educators that the Supreme Court in June ruled that race could still be used as a factor in admissions, as long as the race-based policies were necessary to achieve diversity.

In its 7-1 decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas, the court held that race could be used if “no workable raceneutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity.”

Civil rights advocates and many university officials were relieved that the high court continued to allow race to be used in considering admissions, while opponents argued that there was still enough ground for further suits to challenge such policies.

The use of affirmative action has divided Americans since the 1970s. In college admissions, supporters have used such policies to give opportunities to qualified minority students to help them overcome the effects of longterm discrimination.

Opponents have contended that affirmative action is really reverse discrimination.

“Racially diverse educational environments help to prepare students to succeed in our increasingly diverse nation. The future workforce of America must be able to transcend the boundaries of race, language and culture as our economy becomes more globally interconnected,” the Department of Education’s letter sent to educators says.

The letter goes on to say that the 2011 policies on voluntary use of race in admissions remain available and that the agencies “stand ready to support colleges and universities in pursuing a racially and ethnically diverse student body in a lawful manner. We look forward to working with you on this important goal.”

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Remembering: When a parent dies

Women’s Studies Research Scholar Phyllis Silverman will read a new paper on how we remain connected to the deceased when a parent of dependent children dies.

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

Bouncing back

Setbacks, rejections and transitions are a normal part of college life, but experiencing them can be scary and overcoming them can sometimes seem impossible.

Research shows that one of the most important factors in achieving success is resilience, the ability to overcome obstacles and persevere despite setbacks. Resilience can help us take risks that we would not have otherwise taken and allows us to find out more about ourselves, our capabilities and our passions.

Join us for a panel conversation where members of the Brandeis community will share stories of obstacles they have faced

in college, work and life. They will give insight into how one can overcome setbacks.

Today from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Usdan Student Center International Lounge.

Professors in the courtroom

Interested in international law? Come join this discussion with Christoffer Wong of Lund University on how judges are elected to international courts and tribunals, and the role of academics in such elections.

Today from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex, Rm. 209.

Feminist activism on the Internet

From the late 1960s to Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 Lean In, consciousness-raising has been a vital tool for feminist activism.

This lecture will explore the promises and pitfalls of the CR process using the internet.

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

Trayvon Martin: racial innocence today

Robin Bernstein, author of Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood and Race from Slavery to Civil Rights, will give a lecture related to her book. Bernstein will discuss Trayvon Martin and other cases.

Thursday from 4 to 6:30 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall of the Goldfarb Library.

Fall Fest welcome reception

Visit with faculty and staff at this campus-wide function. Mix and mingle with other families and get to know who is here for the weekend.

Friday from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center lobby.

Fall Fest: the reform club luncheon

Join us for an informal “meet and greet” with Brandeis faculty and Roosevelt Fellows where students and families are welcome to learn more about classes, majors and any other academic points of interest.

Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. in the Mandel Center for the Humanities Forum.

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NO LANGUAGE BARRIER: The fact that Carvajal spoke only in Spanish did not deter him from teaching IBS students this week.

Cuban religious leader visits IBS the director of the Father Felix Varela Cultural Center in Havana.

By marissa ditkowsky JUSTICE editor

Last week, the Rev. Yosvany Carvajal of Havana visited Brandeis, and on Wednesday, he led a talk titled “Cuba Today: The Church, State and Private Entrepreneurship.”

Carvajal is the director of the Father Felix Varela Cultural Center in Havana, which started Cuba’s first ever Master of Business Administration program, and now provides a course for new entrepreneurs in Cuba called the Cuba Emprende Foundation.

According to Mrinalini Tankha, program coordinator for emerging markets at the Brandeis International Business School and lecturer in Anthropology, Carvajal’s residency was sponsored by Co-Chair of the Board of Overseers of IBS Alan Hassenfeld, and was organized in conjunction with the Hassenfeld Fellow Overseas Immersion Program. This IBS program takes M.A., MBA and B.A./M.A. students on immersion trips to emerging markets, such as Cuba and Turkey. Thirty students went to Cuba last year, and 24 students are there this year, according to Tankha.

As part of the Hassenfeld Cuba Program, students from IBS have been visiting Cuban students in Havana from Carvajal’s center’s MBA program, as well as young Cuban entrepreneurs from the center’s entrepreneurship program.

“To extend this academic exchange, we thought it would be great to have someone come from Havana to speak at Brandeis and we therefore invited Father Carvajal for a week long residency at Brandeis,” wrote Tankha in an email to the Justice.

Following the event, the Justice spoke with Carvajal separately. The

“My pastor, for example, tended to six or seven parishes, just him for so many parishes. The idea always stayed in my head.”

Carvajal noticed the need for a priest in his own town, noting the “lack of faith.”

Carvajal went to a vocational school to prepare himself to enter the seminary, which he did in 1993.

According to Carvajal, “to be a priest in Cuba is to give one’s life to Cuba, as well, because the church in Cuba has an important function because it accompanies all of my town’s history.”

“My method of loving Cuba is being a priest,” he said.

Carvajal started the MBA program in 2011. “In the year we started the MBA, we chose 45 students first. It was a very difficult selection because 200 students applied. To choose 45 students of 200 applications is difficult,” he said.

Carvajal described his students as “great” and “prepared.” The program continues to grow in size.

Carvajal described the importance of such a program as being able “to help the changes of the economic reform that have moved forward with Raul Castro as president of Cuba.”

“Before business men, there were merchants. Now, [understanding business] is a necessity,” he said.

“We don’t want to prepare the people for ourselves, for the Church. It’s for Cuba; it’s all for Cuba,” he said.

In regard to the selection of Pope Francis, a native Argentinian, Carvajal is optimistic. Carvajal described the Pope as the type of religious leader who “walks with his town, is involved in the middle of usual communication in Buenos Aires, visits poorer communities and is concerned about the poor.”

Carvajal hopes that this is a chance for the world to become more familiar with Latin America. “We’re all very happy to have a Latin American Pope,” he said. “I hope the Pope makes a new vision for not only the Church, but the world.”

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Carvajal discussed the relationship between Cuba and the church, and according to Carvajal, it “has gotten better in the last years.”

“When Raul Castro assumed power, he asked for the help of the Catholic Church to liberate political prisoners that were incarcerated in 2002 under Fidel Castro,” said Carvajal.

Carvajal explained that in Cuba, “there was a long confrontation between the Church with the state because the government assumed an official atheist philosophy that established an atheist state.”

“There were serious confrontations with the church and with the constitution, an atheist country, that evidently had no absolute passions for religion. The church was practically called upon to disappear in the political scenario,” said Carvajal.

According to Carvajal, the Cuban constitution was amended in 1992, and Cuba changed from an atheist country to a secular country. However, when Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, he called for reform in Cuba and a change in mentality.

Following the visit and change in mentality, it was easier to get permission for all the public processions, to project public religious images and hold public mass, according to Carvajal.

“Lately, for example, there was a great procession in 2001, with the image of the Virgin of Charity with the Patron Saint of Cuba,” Carvajal said.

According to Carvajal, Cuba was never truly an atheist country. “Atheist Cuban policies never penetrated through the hearts of Cubans. We were always a religious country,” he said.

Carvajal reflected on his decision to become a priest, despite the relatively recent struggles between the Catholic Church and the state. “When I was about 12 years old, I visited the church. There, I grew in faith on the parish and noticed the necessity for religious leaders in Cuba,” he said.

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While Brandeis students are still adjusting to new dining provider Sodexo, there may be more change in store for next year. According to two University administrators, the University is considering revisions to the meal plan system, in addition to significant potential renovations of both on-campus dining halls.

In an interview with the Justice, Senior Vice President for Administration Mark Collins said that there is a “strong possibility” of a two-story physical expansion of Sherman Dining Hall on the side of the building facing Massell Quad. Lower Usdan, in the Usdan Student Center, may be turned into an “all-you-can-eat” facility, like Sherman is now. Collins said that the rough outline of these plans calls for the Usdan changes to take place next summer and Sherman to be expanded the following summer.

Collins said that the University also wants to include more upperclassmen and residential students in meal plans, and that some variation of a meal plan might be made mandatory for all students living on campus.

Senior Vice President for Students

and Enrollment Andrew Flagel explained the idea, which he characterized as being brought forward by students, in an interview with the Justice. “Most of our peers have an expectation that all of their residential students are on meal plans,” he said. “And in fact several institutions have moved to all undergraduates being required to be on ... meal plans.

That never received any serious discussion, but I won’t say it’s off the table if students want to put it out there as a point of discussion.”

He also mentioned another potential conceptual change that received attention and discussion during the process of selecting a dining provider last year: “Instead of ‘X’ meals per week, you just get open access to the meal plan facilities. ... It takes the whole equation but changes it radically.” In terms of financing these projects, including the renovations, Flagel said “As part of the [request for proposal] process [last year], what we were looking for was a partner that would take on significant, if not all of the costs of refreshing our facilities.

And all of the competitive bidders included that in their proposals.” He also said that these projects might move forward rapidly: “we’ll have to come to some decisions fairly quickly, because students will want to know by the time we get to the housing lottery process exactly what the configuration is.”

—Tate Herbert contributed reporting

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Ranis ’52 passes ■ Gustav Ranis ’52, an

inaugural Brandeisian and first-ever valedictorian, died on Tuesday at the age of 83.

By jay feinstein JUSTICE contributing writer

Gustav Ranis ’52, the valedictorian of Brandeis’ first graduating class, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 15 at the age of 83.

A committed member of the school’s inaugural class, Ranis was Brandeis’ first member of Phi Beta Kappa, the first alumnus to earn a Ph.D. and first alumnus to join the Board of Trustees, according to Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement Nancy Winship.

At Brandeis, Ranis served as Student Union president for his junior year and senior class president the next year, played for the since-disestablished football team and was involved in Hillel, said Winship in an interview with the Justice. At Brandeis’ first commencement, he delivered his valedictorian speech alongside commencement speaker Eleanor Roosevelt.

After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Brandeis, Ranis received his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics at Yale University.

According to an Oct. 17 BrandeisNOW article, from 1958 to 1961, Ranis worked abroad for the Ford Foundation as director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.

He then started teaching at Yale in 1964 as a professor of international economics, where Ranis remained a professor until his retirement in 2005, at which point he was named Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics.

Brandeis awarded Ranis an honorary degree in 1982 for his work as an economist and the Alumni Achievement Award for his dedication as an alumni leader 10 years later, according to the BrandeisNOW article. He accepted the award again in 2012 when Brandeis honored the class of 1952.

According to University President Frederick Lawrence, in addition to authoring more than 20 books and 300 articles on theoretical and

policy-related issues of development, he served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Program, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, UN International Labor Ranis Organization, the World Bank, International Development Bank and Asian Development Bank, as well as the Brookings Institution, Pearson Commission, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and U.S. Agency for International Development.

“Gus Ranis was a trailblazer for Brandeis,” Lawrence wrote in an email to the Justice. “As someone who escaped the Holocaust as a young boy, Gus had a great capacity for looking forward and for healing the world,” he said.

Lawrence wrote that he will miss Ranis’s energy and devotion. “[Ranis] was an untiring advocate for the University. Despite working on many of the most difficult problems in global development, he remained an optimist who believed in making the world a better place,” he wrote.

Winship, who had known Ranis for 20 years, said, “From the very beginning I was impressed not only with how brilliant he was as an international economist, but also how he never forgot his values.”

She not only commended Ranis’ academic work, but also said that “he was incredibly humble for who he was as a Yale professor, and his class revered and admired him.”

According to Winship, Ranis continued to attend Board of Trustees meetings until his passing. “He had extremely high standards for Brandeis in terms of admissions and the quality of the academic program,” she said. “He felt great about where Brandeis is today.”

“When I think of his face and his smile, I think of what a pleasant, highly ethical and sometimes visionary person he was,” she said.

“He will truly be missed at the Board of Trustees meetings.“ Ranis is survived by his wife Rachel Ranis ’55, whom he met at Brandeis, along with his three children and four grandchildren.

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Garage considered as a fix for problems with parking ■ The Student Union is

looking to address issues with on-campus parking.

By SARA DEJENE JUSTICE EDITOR

According to Student Union President Ricky Rosen ’14, the issue of parking availability on campus is a growing concern for students and other members of the Brandeis community. In a Senate meeting earlier this month, he reported that Public Safety issued between 75 and 100 tickets and towed about 10 cars in North Quad in one crackdown earlier this year.

In an interview with the Justice, Rosen said he plans to evaluate the University’s parking system and find ways for it to “better suit student needs.” So far, he has formed a “working group of Student Union members” who will draft and send out a survey to gauge student opinions on the issue.

Rosen said that the number of people in need of parking permits has consistently risen over the past few years.

“Years ago, it used to be that every single student at Brandeis could park,” he said. “Now it’s just juniors and seniors that can park.”

Part of the problem is also a large

number of unregistered parkers. “[Director of Public Safety] Ed Callahan estimated that 10 percent of the parkers on campus are unregistered, and those are the majority of people who are being ticketed,” Rosen explained. “So part of the solution from a Union perspective is to educate people on how to apply for a pass, and the consequences of not applying for a pass.” Callahan was unavailable for comment.

Still, Rosen acknowledged that the number of limited parking spots on campus is an issue in and of itself. In 2011, the University restricted undergraduate parking permit registration to only juniors and seniors. According to Callahan in a Febuary 2012 Justice article, the University issued 3,450 parking permits, exceeding the 2,299 parking spots on campus.

Rosen said that he has met with Callahan, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel and Senior Vice President for Administration Mark Collins to discuss both short and long-term solutions.

More immediate solutions included acquiring an off-campus lot from which students could be shuttled to campus, further limiting parking access to only seniors or clearing nearby land to build another campus lot.

However, those options are not

viable at this point, according to Rosen, as there is not enough space in Waltham to provide more off or on-campus parking and that further limiting parking “would not be in the best interests of students.”

Rosen said that after reviewing the options, they decided that the University will have to invest in a parking garage, but acknowledged that this will be a long-term project.

There are several factors and consequences to consider, such as the temporary loss of some parking areas during the construction period and an increase in parking registration fees.

“Instead of students paying $120 a year, it might be five, 10 times that,” said Rosen. “We don’t know.”

According to a Feb. 2012 email to the Justice from Callahan, the University had looked into building a parking garage about five years earlier and had found the cost to be about $18 thousand to $29 thousand per space.

For now, Rosen said he will begin the process by gathering opinions and researching similar colleges and universities’ parking systems.

“This is something that within the next decade, we’re hoping students, trustees and administrators are going to put at the top of their agenda,” Rosen said.

—Tate Herbert contributed reporting

HILLEL: Board seeking new executive director CONTINUED FROM 1 The constants are to ensure that we are serving the Brandeis student population, to promote Jewish pluralism, to support Israel in all the various ways people may feel it appropriate to support Israel.”

“What Hillel should be specifically at Brandeis is a question that we are constantly asking ourselves, and will be asking in a different way as we move into a new generation of leadership,” he continued.

While at Brandeis, Sternberg also served as director of the Nathan Perlmutter Institute for Jewish Advocacy, associate director of the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and an adjunct member of the faculty of the Hornstein Jewish Professional

Leadership Program, according to the Brandeis website.

In his email to the community, Sternberg cited the tripling of the number of students who participate in Birthright trips and “serving as a model campus in nurturing unity ... and promoting constructive conversations on campus” as his proudest accomplishments.

At the conclusion of his email, Sternberg thanked the many people who he worked with while at Brandeis.

“My many relationships with students, colleagues, and teachers have nurtured me and given me the opportunity to feel that I was a contributor to the growth of others,” he wrote. “Over the course of more than thirty years as a student, faculty and staff member at Brandeis, I have

treasured these relationships. I look forward to continuing connections to the Brandeis community I love."

Moving forward, Waizer said the Hillel Board is reaching out to stakeholders to “start a discussion about what kind of person is the best kind of person for this particular community.”

Flagel said he “look[s] forward to discussing with the Board about their next steps … to involve the University.

Typically the University is engaged in those searches to some degree, but we have not yet had any requests or decisions.”

Sternberg could not be reached for comment by press time. Hillel Student President Rachel Mayo ’14 declined to comment on Sternberg’s departure.

—Tate Herbert contributed reporting

FINNEY: Author shares experiences as a transgender female for talk CONTINUED FROM 1 ing in a band at a bar. A man approached her outside and was forceful in trying to get her to come home with him. She pushed him away and left. “The fact that women were subject to violence, well, I knew that, so what did I learn? It’s different when it’s you.”

Finney Boylan also talked about the new experiences that came along with being a woman. “I was on the receiving end of male attention that I just didn’t know how to deal with,” she said.

When asked by an attendee about gender pronouns, Finney Boylan said that it is always good to get to know a person, and to “use the word that makes them feel safe.”

“If you use the wrong name … you should always stop [and apologize],” she said. “If you just go on

without acknowledging it, it can be really painful.”

When asked by an attendee whether or not she thinks of being a woman as starting a new life, Finney Boylan responded that she does not. She explained that “embracing the person that I’ve been” has led to a sense of wholeness. She has accepted that her experiences as a male make her who she is today. “If there is something different about my experience, it’s history,” she said. “My history is different. … That doesn’t make me worse or better. It’s just a fact of my life.”

Finney Boylan’s message was well-received by attendees, such as Margaret Borchert ’14.

“It’s incredibly important that people do come to events like this and expand their horizons, specifically about gender and sexuality, because it leads to a better world,

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honestly,” said Borchert in an interview with the Justice.

“We fear the unknown and understanding other people and their gender and sexualities and the huge diversity that we have in the world means that people will be less afraid and that there will be less hatred in the world,” Borchert added.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture series was established in 2004 in order “to honor Eleanor Roosevelt’s commitment to social justice and her important place in women’s history,” according to the Women’s and Gender Studies program page on the University website.

Finney Boylan, an English professor at Colby College, released her autobiography in 2003. She has also authored 12 other books, including novels and collections of short stories.

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TO BE REPLACED: A kosher delicatessen will replace the Quiznos in Upper Usdan.

Sodexo hopes to have the location ready for students when they return in January.

DELI: Sodexo open to student feedback on dining options CONTINUED FROM 1 for students to submit them. “We want to have a great kosher option on the other side [of campus from Sherman],” said DeGioia in an interview with the Justice.

The decision to add a secondary kosher dining option was based upon community feedback, said DeGioia.

“When we came up with these plans we did a year and a half of research,” DeGioia told the Justice. This research was done during Sodexo’s creation of their request for proposal, during the bidding process to become Brandeis’ food service provider.

In early October 2013, Sodexo polled students in Sherman Dining Hall about whether they wanted to see a kosher delicatessen on campus, and received “overwhelmingly” positive responses in favor of the idea, according to DeGioia, who says the results totaled about 25 votes against and a couple hundred in favor of the delicatessen. In the same poll Sodexo also asked if students would be in favor of turning Sherman Dining Hall into an all-kosher option, and received negative reactions. Sodexo intends to take such feedback into consideration, said DeGioia. “As you tell us what you want, we’ll do our best to roll it out,” he added Barry Sasson ’16 expressed his excitement for the new delicatessen in an interview with the Justice. As a kosher student, Sasson currently eats meat only in Sherman. Sasson not only feels that the delicatessen would “significantly widen” his options for eating on campus, but said

that the delicatessen would allow him “to eat a quicker meal when in a rush or need[s] to be somewhere far from Sherman on campus.”

However, on Sunday during the Dining Committee chair report when the change was announced at the Senate meeting, several senators expressed concerns with replacing Quiznos, a “staple” for many students who eat there as an alternative option to the stations within Usdan Café. Executive Senator Annie Chen ’14 said that although the University has already approved this plan, it “shouldn’t discourage us from giving our opinion. We represent our constituents.”

A kosher delicatessen is not the only new kosher option Sodexo has planned to include on campus. According to DeGioia, Kosher options will be available in the new Dunkin Donuts in the Village, which will open sometime in early November.

The donuts and coffee are already kosher coming into the facility, so Sodexo will work with a rabbi to make sure that these items are handled in such a way that adheres to the laws of kashrut, DeGioia added.

With all these changes, Sodexo looks to students to voice their opinions. “All major changes are subject to approval” by the Brandeis community, DeGioia said, continuing on to say that Sodexo desires to give “the students the opportunity to own their own program and for [Sodexo] to support it.”

—Marissa Ditkowsky contributed reporting

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OPENING THE FLOOR: The Community Prejudice Response Task Force hosted its first open discussion as part of a new series.

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Committee hosts first discussion in a series on hot-topic issues

By HEE JU KANG JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Miley Cyrus and her Video Music Award performance with Robin Thicke has garnered quite a bit of attention. Last month, she paraded on stage in clothes that left little to the imagination, and her highly sexual “twerk” aroused a great deal of controversy after the performance, causing the public to react in general disgust.

On Friday, Oct. 18, the Community Prejudice Response Committee members, Dean of Students Jamele Adams, Prof. Jen Cleary (THA), the Rev. Walter Cuenin, Intercultural Center Director Monique Gnanaratnam and Director of Community Living Erika Lamarre hosted the first event in a series of discussions on diversity titled “Miley, Molly, and those Blurred Lines,” which dealt with issues of gender, sex, drugs and double standards in pop culture today.

The event, held in the Swig Lounge of the Intercultural Center, was attended by about 25 students. The group sat in an intimate ring facing each other.

The discussion opened with the topic of Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke’s VMA performance.

One student shared her belief that Cyrus’s actions, although positive in the sense that Cyrus feels empowered enough to act in defiance to societal expectations, are unacceptable due to cultural appropriation—the act of taking a cultural element of a group without proper consent and understanding. She claimed that “twerking,”

a dance in which one shakes his or her hips to jiggle the buttocks, originates from traditional African dances. She also stated that Cyrus recently shed fame on “twerking” without a proper understanding of the cultural origins and significance of the dance.

The discussion then shifted to the topic of Robin Thicke and his song “Blurred Lines.”

Although initially quiet, the students slowly began to speak up.

Several students indignantly said Thicke and the lyrics of the song endorsed rape culture and that the music video was simply vulgar, featuring young female models in only bottom underwear.

“This video didn’t even make sense to me,” one student said, “Why were they doing weird things? Why was the model holding a lamb?

And how is it okay to say Robin Thicke has a big ‘d’ in the middle of a music video?” The student went on to comment on the accessibility of these controversial videos on the Internet, sharing her worries about what impressionable young people could learn from the contents of the video.

The students then returned to the first student’s comment about cultural appropriation and addressed the gaps between each ethnic and racial group. One of the event attendees shared her past experiences with people outside of her cultural sphere. “People often say that the tango is too sexual, but to me, it’s just beautiful,” she said. She shared that when she had attended a

friend’s “Mexican-themed” party, two attendees wore offensive costumes alluding to Mexican immigrants in America. “They were my friend’s friends, and I was very uncomfortable,” she said.

There was also a great deal of discussion regarding widely-used controversial words. Students discussed with the CPR members the usage of the N-word among others. “[The N-word] should never be used, under any circumstances,” a student said. “The historical background of the word makes it intolerable. Not even black people should be using it,” she said.

To end the discussion, Adams suggested that everyone try their best to converse with those who may hold different opinions and alternate views.

He gave an example from his experience years ago. He said he encountered a white man who called him the N-word, meaning offense.

The man had not expected a black man to be educated, and Adams said that he surprised the man by inviting him to an intellectual conversation about race and stereotypes.

“We even exchanged phone numbers,” Adams said, commenting on how the experience turned positive after he made an effort to communicate.

The discussion extended well over the hour of its allotted time. As people bid one another goodbye and parted, murmurs of excitement and delight over the discussion pervaded the lounge.

Maya Cooper ’16 said that although the event

was a positive experience, she felt some aspects left room for improvement. “I thought the event today was a great beginning to a discussion that really needs to continue more on this campus about … race and gender and … how those things come together and how those things need to be broken down,” she said. “I think it really would have been nice to see some representation from other groups across the campus.”

Michael Wang ’17 said that he would like to attend more of the CPR discussions to follow.

“A class recommended that I come … I wasn’t really sure about how it was going on at first because it was about [the “Blurred Lines” music video] I’d never actually seen.”

Wang also commented on the somewhat unfocused nature of the event. “I actually felt a bit flustered because it dealt with so many different things that I never really thought about because they never really pertained to me,” he said.

The committee hopes to host more discussions based on current events in the future, and the next topic will revolve around the theme of privilege.

Adams was pleased with the event. “To have a mix of students, administrators and professors and folks of an entire spectrum of different cultures, races and nationalities … and ethnicities present for a conversation. Oh, it was great!” he said. “[There is] not just the need to talk about [these issues] but the desire to talk about it. This falls in direct line with social justice, falls in direct line with community.”

Making a Roman miniature University continues using Roman Forum replica for education

By ADITI SHAH JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Have you ever walked through the mezzanine of the Goldfarb Library and wondered what that giant display in the center is? That huge item is a model of the Roman Forum, and it was given as a gift to the students in 1993 to stand as a treasure unique to Brandeis.

The Roman Forum was the cultural, political, commercial and religious center of Rome. The model is extremely detailed and a scaled representation of the Forum, the heart of ancient Rome.

The model was created by Robert Garbisch.

Garbisch was a fireman from Northern California who spent 10 years (1973 to 1983) making this model. Garbisch became connected with the University when he was passing by the ruins of the Roman Forum in Italy when former Brandeis Prof. Jean D’Amato was giving a lecture on the Forum. He insisted that D’Amato come to his garage in California to observe the model he was creating. She eventually agreed and went one summer, and after seeing what he had built, she tried to get Garbisch to bring it to Brandeis so that she could show her students.

The model arrived at Brandeis on March 15, 1983, an event covered even by the Boston Globe and the Waltham News Tribune. The model was at Brandeis on loan for about 10 years until Prof. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (CLAS) was able to get Garbisch to officially give it to Brandeis.

She urged Garbisch to give it to the students of Brandeis because she had been using the model for teaching. “It’s great to bring my class to the library and turn on the little lights and see it. I wanted to give this gift to [Brandeis students]. I feel like it is easier to connect to it by owning it,” said Koloski-Ostrow.

It did not matter if one was a patrician (aristocrat) or a plebeian (commoner); all were welcome in the Forum. It was a common space for political speeches, a site for shops, temples and buildings, such as the Senate house.

“The Roman Forum is the Times Square and the Washington Mall combined,” said Prof.

Charles McClendon (FA). McClendon also said it is likely that Garbisch set the time of the model of the Forum around 160 CE because this time period is considered to be the Golden Age of the Roman Empire. This was during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, who were co-emperors from 161 CE until Verus’ death in

169, when Aurelius continued to rule until 180.

This is known because the model contains two figures representing Aurelius and Lucius Verus. As described by Koloski-Ostrow they are “the two men riding on horseback down the Sacred Way on their way to the Capitoline Hill.”

Aurelius and Verus are but two of the figures out of 700 that are scattered throughout the model. All of them were hand painted and dressed, and they are each placed to bring the Roman Forum to life. The attention Garbisch gave to the historical detail is seen as he includes one teenage boy carving graffiti on a column while another boy is looking out for guards, and there is actual graffiti on that column in the actual Roman Forum.

Others figures include teenage lovers holding hands, slaves carrying a wealthy Roman, a Vestal Virgin waving at a Roman soldier (which would have been unacceptable), and Garbisch himself on the top of the Capitoline steps in a green toga looking at his model. In addition to the figures, there are 400 marble statues on the buildings, all made of papier mache, and tiny ceiling lights that turn on and show activity behind the windows of some of the buildings.

Garbisch chose to construct parts of the fo-

rum out of common household items, such as uncooked spaghetti for the roofs of some buildings, chicken wire for the windows and spools of thread for the columns. it is believed that Garbisch used these items because they were more economical for him and still satisfied his vision for the model.

Koloski-Ostrow has been very involved with this model since she arrived at Brandeis in the fall of 1985. She said in an interview with the Justice, “as a Classics professor, I found it as such an accurate presentation of the heart beat of the Roman city. Look how history can come alive!”

According to Koloski-Ostrow, it is the only model in the world that depicts what the Roman Forum looked like during the reign of Marcus Aurelius with such a high level of detail and accuracy.

Students themselves were also impressed by the presentation that Koloski-Ostrow and McClendon gave on it on Wednesday, Oct. 2.

Describing the model, Classical Studies major Matthew Chernick ’16 said that, “It was a very informative presentation. I knew [the model] was there but I didn’t realize how unique it was.”

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Reshape Hillel under new leader This past Thursday, Larry Sternberg M.A.’78, executive director of Hillel at Brandeis, made the unexpected mid semester announcement that he was stepping down from the post. Sternberg has played a vital role as both a student and faculty member in the Jewish community on campus for more than 30 years.

This board would like to thank Sternberg for his many contributions to the greater Brandeis community over the course of his time here.

With the executive director position now vacant, Hillel at Brandeis is presented with a unique opportunity to mold its future at Brandeis with its new hiring.

This moment is especially significant at a campus like Brandeis where Judaism, both in terms of foundational values and the sheer number of Jewish students, has the potential to play a more meaningful role in the community.

One point of re-evaluation that Hillel at Brandeis should consider is the current structure of the denominational groups within the Hillel umbrella. As the system currently stands, each member group applies for funding from the Finance Board, creates programming, and accepts alumni donations individually. According to the members of the Union treasury and finance Board, this past year, the combined denominational groups were allocated over $19,000 from F-Board with virtually no discretion from Hillel in the distribution. Hillel on the other hand, is only capable of allocating up to $3,500 total to all its member clubs this semester.

Thanks to Larry Sternberg This naturally creates individual and denominational-specific communities that limit their outreach and programming to specific categories of Jewish students, as opposed to a more broadly defined but integrally united Jewish community.

We recommend that the new executive director re-evaluate the current structure of Hillel at Brandeis and consider changes that would foster greater unity among the different Jewish communities on campus.

At other universities with a large Jewish presence, Hillel itself is in charge of all funding for the groups under its domain, with all its member groups then appealing to Hillel for funds.

This structure would potentially limit the amount of denominational-specific programming and create more of an opportunity for broader Hillel programming. This board hopes that such a systematic change in how member clubs are financed could potentially foster a more cohesive Jewish community.

Hillel, in theory, should be a place where students of all denominations can feel comfortable embracing and discussing their religion with each other. Brandeis represents a place where any person can interact with and learn from one another and where people from all walks of life feel included. Moving forward, we hope Hillel at Brandeis builds upon the foundation left behind by Sternberg, and continues to strive for a more united Jewish community.

Address parking issues

Parking on the Brandeis campus seems to be a perennial struggle.

In 2011, the University acknowledged that the demand for parking spaces exceeded its supply and so it eliminated the distribution of parking permits to resident sophomore students. Today, it takes considerable time and effort to find a place to park a car on campus.

Over the course of the past month, the Student Union Senate and Student Union President Ricky Rosen ’14 have discussed the parking problems in their meetings, and they proposed sending out a survey about parking to the student body. We encourage their efforts to begin a dialogue with the administration around this University-wide concern. As a continuous source of frustration and inefficiency for members of the community, the administration must prioritize a solution to the parking issue on campus.

In 2012, Senior Vice President for Administration Mark Collins told the Justice that the University has 2,299 parking spaces. The Office of Parking and Traffic indicated that they distributed 2,100 permits to faculty and staff and 1,350 permits to students that year, resulting in over 1,000 more permits than parking spaces.

Parking is as much a problem today as it was two years ago when the University eliminated sophomore resident parking.

Recently in North Quad, in one instance of parking enforcement, Public Safety towed about 10 cars and ticketed 75 to 100 cars, according to Rosen in a Senate meeting.

The only viable long-term remedy for

Consider parking garage the parking shortage is the construction of a multi-level parking facility. A garage on campus would provide many more spaces without utilizing more University property. The garage could be built over Theater Lot or South Residence Lot, and the potential increase in parking space could also free up other current parking locations to be converted into green space.

Collins told the Justice in 2012 that the University studied the possibility of a parking structure about six years ago and found that the price per space in a garage ranged from $18,000 to $29,000. Collins estimated that the cost would have increased since the University last studied the issue.

A garage would therefore cost millions of dollars.

While we recognize Brandeis’ fiscal situation may not allow for such an expenditure at the moment, the administration should not continuously put parking on the back-burner. Students, staff, faculty and visitors to the campus regularly waste time circling parking lots, unable to find a place to leave their cars. With a deficit of over 1,000 spaces, this problem has been largely neglected by the administration. Although parking may have the appearance of being orderly, in reality it is anything but.

The recent efforts by the Student Union to help allay these concerns are encouraging. Although it is a long-term initiative, a concrete plan for the future would be a step in the right direction.

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As of late, the hard-line relations between America and Iran seem to be easing. For the first time since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the American president had a phone conversation with the president of Iran. On the surface this seems like steps by Iran to enter real negotiations about their nuclear program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has called President Hassan Rouhani’s efforts a “smiley campaign” with “conciliatory words.” What do you foresee as the trajectory of our talks with Iran, and do you see them being productive?

Eric Lob President Hassan Rouhani and his team are serious about subjecting Iran’s nuclear program to heightened restrictions, safeguards and inspections in exchange for sanctions relief and the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. Based on preliminary discussions and official statements in New York and Geneva, the trajectory of talks between Iran and the P5+1 is heading in a constructive and positive direction. In response to these talks, Israel has taken a hard-line stance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that Iranian enrichment at any level represents an existential threat to his country. Other Israeli officials are concerned about Iranian-American rapprochement and about Israel losing its geostrategic advantage as the Middle East’s sole nuclear power. Ironically, Israeli resistance toward diplomacy raises the prospects of a nuclear-armed Iran and a regional, nuclear arms race—the very outcomes Israel seeks to avoid.

Eric Lob is a postdoctoral research fellow at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies.

Sarah Kent (GRAD) If the history of these two nations is deeply examined, it becomes clear that the tensions between the U.S. and Iran have existed well before the 1979 hostage crisis; rather it was simply the breaking point. For example, the United States and Great Britain were instrumental in the overthrow of former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, who wanted to nationalize oil, in 1953. The talks between President Obama and President Hassan Rouhani are encouraging, but I believe it will take a long time for mutual trust to be regained because of the past and the potential backlash within the two nations. These early talks do not specifically symbolize much in the way of moving forward. They do, however, represent an opening of minds in each country to the idea of reigniting relations. For these reasons, I believe that these talks are hopeful but not enough to assume that the relationship between the United States and Iran will improve.

Sarah Kent is pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching with a concentration in History.

Arielle Gordon ’16 Really, we’re asking the wrong questions. Likely, talks between President Obama and President Rouhani will not come to any sort of definitively diplomatic fruition. Idealists can be as hopeful as they would like, but anti-U.S. sentiment is deeply embedded within the very ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and while Iran’s nuclear program is hardly the existential threat that many portray it to be, it is certainly a symbol of sovereignty that the ideological factions in Iran, with the most jurisdiction over Iranian policies, will be hard pressed to relinquish. Yet, the concrete outcome of talks is hardly a reason to dissuade the U.S. from engaging in conversation. With two “reformist” political leaders at the helm, it is imperative that we seize the opportunity to create a space for dialogue with the IRI that has been closed off for more than three decades. The goal of dialogue would not be to achieve a concrete outcome, but to set a precedent for conversation that only a year ago would have seemed impossible. While this is hardly a moment for blind optimism, we cannot afford to allow uncompromising cynicism prevent the possibility of a badly needed shift in U.S.-Iranian relations.

Arielle Gordon ’16 is majoring in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, serves as the editor of the Middle East section for the Brandeis International Journal, and is a staff writer for the Justice.

Alex Thomson ’15 From the latest news reports, it appears that the clandestine talks between the Iranian and American governments are making significant progress.

All indications point to an imminent deal that could be announced shortly that would require greater international oversight and regulation of Iran’s nuclear stockpile, unannounced visits to Iranian nuclear facilities by UN inspectors and limits on the quantity and grade of uranium. I find Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s willingness to engage in dialogue with the United States to be both refreshing and hopeful after the past eight years of hostile relations with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Despite the productivity of the talks, I am still cautious of their final outcome and the ultimate deal. While I do believe that Rouhani is intent on bettering relations with the West to ease sanctions on the Iranian economy, he must also match deeds with words and demonstrate that Iran is serious about ceding its nuclear program.

Alex Thomson ’15 is the former president of the Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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Validation online represents problem in society

By KAHLIL OPPENHEIMER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

What was I doing in 2004? YouTube would not be created until 2005. MySpace had been created in 2003, but I would not make my own page until sometime around 2007. Facebook was created in 2004 but was only open to select college students until sometime in 2006—I did not end up creating my own account until 2009, anyway. So what was I doing? It’s strange to imagine not opening my laptop every time I step into my room, not pulling out my smartphone every time I’m waiting in a line, and not feeling the short-lived excitement of receiving a Facebook notification, and then realizing that its just someone posting in the Brandeis class page. I was 10 or 11 years old, so I was probably biking around with my good friends from the time. Jason, Jonathan, Devante, Asa—I could count them all on one hand. As of writing this article I have 1052 friends on Facebook, but it only feels equally, if not less, reassuring than my four close childhood friends. I was initially surprised by this observation, because more is better, right? But the connections I have made and maintained over Facebook and the persona I’ve created for myself feel artificial in comparison with real life. I cannot even imagine how content I’d feel if I had 1052 friends in real life and four Facebook friends.

It is always gratifying to see the red number on the corner of our screens—John liked my status, maybe my opinions are valid; Mark accepted my friend request, maybe I am popular; Max liked my profile picture, maybe I am attractive. But those feelings and gratifications are shallow and defined extrinsically.

We get them through other people and consequently depend on those other people to feel that same way. It is true that I felt similarly gratified through my close childhood friends, but it was not overburdening and overstimulating. It was always nice to see my friends, and I appreciated the sense of belonging that came along with them, but I did not feel that presence literally every second of my life. I was not reminded that those feelings were or weren’t there, the way I am now as I check my phone in a line at the Hoot Market. It’s very much like we’ve been conditioned. We see a red number and feel like we’re being noticed before we even check what that notification is about. We are conditioned to feel accepted by these notifications and consequently at a loss without them. As I anxiously wait for the page to load—will I be accepted? If not, I feel restless, compelled to go and like someone else’s stuff, hoping they’ll reciprocate the “love” and fill the newfound void. But imagine how sad it would be if they’re liking my stuff for the same reason.

Aside from seemingly defining our selfworth, Facebook creates new personas for

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us. Individuals who I’ve known in person to be quiet and generally held back are often the most vocal on Facebook. It’s similar to the power that people find in anonymous online Internet forums, but that key difference is that Facebook associates a name with your words. Usually the will to make bold statements comes from not having your name associated with your words, but on Facebook, there’s actually a matter of pride with claiming those words. Some people will chirp

into huge debates with a safe (not new or interesting, but favorable) opinion to reap the benefits of social acceptance without the associated risks. Some people will disagree with just about anything to boast their intelligence and non-conformity. And some people actually provide thought-provoking, interesting and unique opinions—though this last group has always seemed the minority in my experience. The large majority of users I’ve observed fall into the first two groups, and this

is problematic because they don’t develop the necessary social skills.

We live in a society where our natural human impulses are artificially stimulated and are consequently improperly developed. We feel conditioned belonging through our notifications. We feel contrived bravery through the constant presence of our peers. We belong online and are alone in person. I do not know how to solve this problem, but I can safely say that Googling it won’t help.

Concept of social justice actually perpetuates societal injustice

By NELSON GILLIAT JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For centuries, philosophers have formulated and debated various theories of justice.

Justice is an essential precept of morality; morality is a code of right and wrong to guide individual action. Since individuals live and interact with one another, it’s necessary for morality to apply in a social context, dictating how individuals ought to treat one another. Justice fulfills this role. Therefore, the best working definition of justice is individuals getting what they deserve, and in a legal sense, equal treatment of all individuals under the law.

The unit that morality, and thus justice, is concerned with is the individual.

Only individuals are moral agents, since thinking and acting are individual attributes.

A group is only an object of moral concern when viewed as the sum of the individuals involved. When individuals commit a wrong as part of a group, only the individual wrongdoers should be blamed and punished, not the entire group.

Justice is by definition applicable only to individuals in a social context.

To insert the adjective “social” before justice, as in “social justice,” is redundant. Either “social justice” has the same meaning as

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“justice” or it doesn’t. And in fact, the two are very different.

Social justice doesn’t have a singular, clear definition, but generally entails helping disadvantaged and oppressed groups. Herein, however, lies the problem: the unit of concern in “social justice” is always the group, be it racial, religious or socioeconomic—never the individual.

Consider for example, social and political oppression by one group over another. The proper role of justice would be to affix individual blame, punish those responsible and reform the law to be equal to all individuals regardless of social or political affiliation.

Social justice, however, presents an oppressed group with a compensatory advantage at the expense of those who are perceived as part of the oppressing group. Yet two wrongs don’t make a right. In awarding this compensation, “social justice” ignores individual culpability. All those who belong to the same group as the oppressors are punished.

Similarly, victimhood of the individual members in the oppressed group is also ignored; they’re all compensated equally. Advocates of “social justice” claim to be champions of equality, but they only manage to inflict an equal amount of injustice.

For example, observe the history of slavery in America. A firm and just resolution

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would have been to affix individual blame to each perpetrator. Justice would have been to force those slave drivers to live in shackles as they once forced others to and to pay financial reparations. “Social justice,” however, seeks to help those who were disadvantaged across time. For decades, policies have been carried out which give compensatory advantages to the black community at the expense of other communities. This amounts to punishing those who were never responsible, simply because they look like the perpetrators. It’s unjust to punish innocent people for the injustices committed by other members of their racial group.

The greatest transgressions of justice by “social justice,” however, occur when it’s invoked to remedy economic inequalities. Justice concerns itself with protecting the justly-earned fruits of one’s labor from thieves: Social justice concerns itself with ensuring that everyone has the same amount of fruits, regardless of whether or not they’re justlyearned.

Justice seeks the protection of property rights, while “social justice” demands that we violate those rights by redistributing property. The question of whose rights will get violated for someone else’s unearned benefit is simply a matter of who has property and who needs it.

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It is clear that “social justice” will always ignore and violate individual rights because individuals are not its main object of concern.

Instead, advocates of “social justice” clamor for group rights. These include the “rights” of the poor, sick, elderly, unemployed, employed, underpaid, minorities, men, women, children, unborn, animals, businessmen, consumers and so on. Which groups have rights remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that these groups are yelling for a “right to a home,” a “right to a job,” a “right to equal pay,” a “right to a living wage,” and a “right to health care,” to name a few.

All this is to be paid for at the expense of any individual whose rights are considered worthless because he or she is not part of a protected group.

Any alleged right that violates another right, is not and cannot be a right. Group rights necessitate the violation of individual rights and thus are unjust.

Both “social justice” and group rights are deliberately deceptive concepts meant to pervert the concepts they rely upon; justice and individual rights. Such semantic fraud is simply a disingenuous excuse to acquire one’s desires or needs by force. “Social justice” is nothing more than a thin veneer used to morally justify the assault and perversion of justice. As such, it must be rejected.

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FORUM END OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

Congressional crises mask previous party failures Aaron

FRIED FREE THOUGHT

Earlier in the week, many Americans breathed a sigh of relief. The perennial “debtceiling crisis” was once again put to bed, and the government resumed normal function. As crises like these become increasingly commonplace, the politicians involved bring out larger rhetorical guns, while adopting progressively more futile solutions.

The doomsday rhetoric adopted by both the Republicans and the Democrats fits in perfectly with the evasive approach that has become the norm in American politics. Instead of addressing important issues directly, politicians leap into exercises of misdirection.

The country bounces from scandal to scandal, from crisis to crisis, all while the politicians in Washington obfuscate and ignore the root causes of our nation’s problems—which only creates more problems.

A “debt-ceiling crisis” has only one root cause: a national debt that has grown to an unprecedented scale. The debt ceiling is a legal limit on borrowing; when the government reaches it, they should examine the origins of the debt problem rather than searching for ways to double down and pile on even more debt. The source of the problem is that the government spends more than it takes in.

Yet, despite this, the notion of balancing the budget gained little political traction in either party.

Instead, the Republicans rallied behind cries of “defund Obamacare!” and dramatically stormed the barricades in front of war memorials. Meanwhile, the Democrats insisted that we “pay our bills” by borrowing even more money—conveniently forgetting, of course, that having debt means that you aren’t paying your own bills in the first place.

All the two parties had in common were their dire warnings that if their plan was not followed, the country would suffer a disaster.

Our political system is following a simple pattern. First, a government-created crisis or scandal comes into public view. Immediately after, those who are responsible attempt to shift the blame to others. Whoever gets stuck with the blame then attempts to frame the crisis or scandal as insignificant, and as merely a political ploy by their opposition. Finally, to look like they’ve solved the problem, the politicians sell the public a patchwork solution which treats the symptom—but not the cause—and wait to hype up the next crisis or scandal, at which point the cycle repeats.

Essentially, our politicians create problems and then dive away from their consequences while doing their best to convince us that they cannot be blamed. Consider the last headline-grabbing scandal: the National Se-

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curity Agency spying revelations. The Democrats tried to blame the Bush administration, while the Republicans pointed out President Obama’s hypocrisy on the issue. The blame fell on the executive branch, who then tried to say that everything was under control. When that failed, the president dubbed the entire thing a “phony scandal.” To divert to a phony solution, he promised to clamp down on leaks which supposedly “risk national security,” while Congress held a series of fruitless hearings on the topic.

Then, the issue was forgotten in the midst of our debt ceiling crisis, where we saw the same old dog and pony show. The Democrats assailed the Republicans for shutting down the government and hurting the economy in the short term, but the Republicans blamed the Democrats for being unwilling to negotiate about bad laws. Since this was primarily a political stunt by both parties, they both blustered to their supporters that they would “win” politically. However, when most of the public put the fault with the Republicans, they tried to squirm out of the situation.

To sweep this defeat under the rug, the Republicans agreed to a compromise deal that

would kick the can down the road, with the hope that it would buy them time to “win” when the next crisis or scandal rolls around in a month or two.

The upshot of this situation is that both parties’ refusal to engage with the true causes of our problems will cost us far more in the long term. A provision in the Reid-McConnell Deal, which ended the shutdown, effectively eliminates the debt ceiling by authorizing the Treasury department to raise it unilaterally—meaning that Congress will no longer vote to raise it, but rather will vote against an automatic raise. Assuming that President Obama would continue to support raising the debt ceiling and would veto any bill that would prevent this, it would take a two-thirds majority to prevent the debt ceiling from being raised.

We have entered a de facto state of unlimited borrowing for as long as this policy remains implemented. This is tremendously reckless. Default was a genuine concern under a week ago; adding even more debt only increases the risk of this occurring in the long term. If the government continues to borrow at its current rate—and there is no

evidence to suggest that it will slow its pace— then we are in genuine danger of the government’s creditors losing confidence in being repaid. That could have destructive effects on the value of the United States’ sovereign debt, which would send catastrophic shockwaves throughout the financial markets.

Today, despite the clarion calls of “crisis averted” from Washington, we are one step closer to an even larger crisis. Those Americans who breathed sighs of relief were fooled by the partisan shell games in Congress. We must keep our eyes on the ball, and refuse to be duped by the politicians who only seek to expand their own power in the short term.

To do so, it is crucial to focus on the root issues of our problems that will affect us in the long run. Rather than being suckered in by media hype and partisan rhetoric when major issues arise, each of us needs to maintain a clear head with a firm grasp on the fundamental principles at hand. The responsibility to do so lies with you, me and every American. If you shirk it, you will surrender the future to the politicians who have created today’s crises—and you will deserve the world they create for you.

GOP is squarely to blame for government shutdown Noah M.

HORWITZ CIVIL AFFAIRS

This past Wednesday, the leaders of the United States Senate came up with a deal to end the government shutdown that had been going on since the start of the month and to avert a government default on outstanding debt that could have occurred the next day.

The deal, which solved a problem Republicans exclusively created, kicked the problem down the road until early next year, but did so without any preconditions, such as repealing part of Obamacare or implementing massive spending cuts or entitlement reforms. The measure passed by huge bipartisan margins in the Senate, before heading to the House of Representative, where it passed with mainly Democratic votes.

Accordingly, looking at the crisis postmortem, the pundits in the media have attempted to lay blame for the 16 days the government shutdown, which caused an estimated $24 billion in lost output to the economy.

Most pundits, in a spirit of low-information, low-controversy, have assigned blame to both parties in a pursuit of evenhandedness for evenhandedness’ sake. “I see the problems of both,” or “they’re equally to blame,” are the often-repeated clichés uttered time and again on television. Even ostensibly moderate publications, such as CNN and Time Magazine, have pursued this strategy.

It is extremely important to note, however, that this is not even close to being true.

The recent drama has hinged over two deadlines that were taken hostage by Republicans and used as bargaining chip. One such deadline, the debt ceiling, is never appropriate for that goal because the global economy could be put into a cataclysm by a sovereign default. The other, a government shutdown, is sometimes appropriate but not for the specific goal the Republicans used it for. While it does not, of course, lead to a financial meltdown, exacting non-fiscal demands in a fiscal matter is wholly inappropriate.

The biggest demand of Republicans, led in this instance by Sen. Ted Cruz R-Tex., was to repeal or defund all or a substantial part of Obamacare, the President’s key health care reform act. This demand, which does not add to the nation’s deficit in any way, was unfairly attached to any and all bills either creating a budget for the recently started fiscal year or a continuing resolution to fund

part of it. While seemingly irrelevant items are often lumped together into bills known as “riders,” the riders are never seen as an invaluable part of the legislation—where their removal would cause major opposition.

Similarly, the demand was affixed to efforts to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, a somewhat arbitrary upper bound of the amount of money the country may borrow at any one time. The United States has raised the debt ceiling over 100 times since its inception about a century ago. Before President Obama took office, it was always a somewhat non-controversial action, deemed absolutely necessary, by presidents of either party. That is because the risk of the United States defaulting on its currency is so execrable that no rational person could bear to humor the idea. A possible default would cause a run on the U.S. dollar, as well as astronomical borrowing costs for the country in the future. International institutions, such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, have lamented the mere possibility of a United States sovereign default, calling the idea “dangerous” and warning it could create a bigger financial meltdown than the recession of 2008.

It is wholly unacceptable for politicians to play partisan games with the debt ceiling.

The simple possibility of a default caused Standard & Poor’s, the country’s leading

credit rating agency, to downgrade the credit rating of the United States in 2011, and this year’s crisis could cause a further downgrade from Fitch’s credit rating agency. These downgrades actually increase the debt burden of the country by causing the nation’s interest rates on borrowing to rise.

However, when it comes to a government shutdown, the stakes are not nearly as high.

After all, the government shut down for 16 days, and no meltdown, financial or other, occurred. But it is important to note that the reason the Republican Party refused to support a budget or continuing resolution without preconditions was not anything fiscally related. Instead, almost like a social issue, John Boehner, speaker of the house, refused to bring bills to the floor of the House before the government shutdown that did not defund, gut or repeal Obamacare. One could only imagine the universal castigation the Democrats (rightly) would receive if they were in a similar minority position, and shut down the government because the Bush tax cuts were not repealed.

The GOP is the only party responsible for the recent shutdown and near-default.

This is the third year the Republicans have controlled the House, but only the first time they have conflated the government’s budget with the repeal of an unrelated piece of legislation. The Republicans moved the goalposts, and should be blamed as such.

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CLOSELY CONTESTED

CONTINUED FROM 12 Senior forward Chris Wysocki finished a ball that deflected off of a Brandeis defender, and, just like that, the game was over.

Tuesday’s game was a stark contrast from the weekend action.

Midfielder Kyle Feather ’14 opened the scoring after just six minutes, 15 seconds. Five minutes later, Savonen added the second goal of the match.

After Massacussetts Maritime freshman midfielder Thomas McCarthy took advantage of a defensive miscue to make it 2-1, forward Michael Chaput ’16 slotted home a shot to make it 3-1, the eventual score at the half-time break.

In the 57th minute, Savonen added his second goal of the night, taking advantage of a failed clear. Less than a minute later, Jastremski put the ball into an empty net after being set up by forward Sam Ocel ’13.

Savonen completed his hat trick, finishing a rebound to make it 6-1 and capping the Judges’ scoring. Though Mass Maritime pulled back two goals with a penalty kick and a long-range effort, the Judges held on for a comfortable 6-3 victory.

The Judges are off until Monday, Oct. 28, when they play at Mount Ida College. Thankfully for the Judges, all of their remaining conference games are at home, which Coven believes plays to his team’s strengths.

“We’ve got some time off, we’re going to give the boys a couple of days off to regroup,” he said. “We’ll probably have to make a couple of changes; probably not personnel changes, but we’ll be moving around where some of the guys are playing.

“I think we’re going to be good at home and I’m looking forward to having these games at home. I think we have the ability to turn it around. It’s always better to play at home.”

VOLLEYBALL: Judges suffer winless weekend CONTINUED FROM 12

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PUSHING IT THROUGH: Defender Haley Schachter ’16 (right) battles with a Rochester player during the teams’ draw on Oct. 12.

Squad falls in close defeats to two conference opponents ■ After suffering an overtime

loss against Carnegie, the women's soccer team failed to score in an Emory victory.

By JONAH PRICE JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The women’s soccer team had a tough weekend of University Athletic Association play on the road, falling 3-0 to the Emory University Eagles on Sunday and 1-0 to the No. 17 Carnegie Mellon University Tartans in a hard-fought overtime loss on Thursday.

With the pair of losses, the Judges move to 9-4-1 overall and 1-2-1 in UAA play.

“We played our hearts out on Friday and were pretty sore, but I really do think we still fought hard today despite what the score shows,” said midfielder Sara Isaacson ’16 following Sunday’s loss.

Sunday’s game was an uphill battle from the beginning. The Eagles outshot the Judges 12-3 in the first half, with seven of the shots being on target. However, goalkeeper Michelle Savuto ’15 was on top of her game and was able to keep the Eagles off of the score sheet for the first half.

However Emory kept up the high pressure, and in the 63rd minute the Eagles broke through. The goal came on an Emory corner, one of 10 in the half, off of which Eagles’ sophomore midfielder Clare Mullins headed the ball past Savuto and into the back of the Brandeis net for

a 1-0 advantage.

Though the game was in the balance for the next couple of minutes, Emory struck again in the 82nd minute, when senior defender Lauren Gorodetsky sent a long ball into the box for freshman forward Cristina Ramirez, who was able to put the ball in the back of the net, extinguishing any hopes of a Judges’ comeback. The goal was Ramirez’s fourth of the season.

With two minutes left in the game, Emory compounded the Judges’ misery when they scored another insurance goal. Junior forward Karina Rodriguez was able to get the rebound of her own shot and put it past Savuto, which resulted in the final score 3-0. The goal was Rodriguez’s third of the year.

With the win Emory moves to 103-1 and 3-1-0 in UAA play.

Against Carnegie, the first half was a back-and-forth game of possession, with neither team able to mount a high-pressured offense.

The first half offensive highlights from Carnegie Mellon came from sophomore midfielder Carson Quiros’ two chances on net during the first half. The first was a midranged shot, which caused Savuto to make a difficult save. The second came from a corner earned in the 43rd minute. Sophomore forward Louisa Pendergast sent a powerful header on target, but the shot was blocked and cleared by a Brandeis defender.

Carnegie Mellon outshot Brandeis 6-2 in the first half; yet only two of CMU’s shots were on target. Both of Brandeis’ shots came in the first 15 minutes of the game.

The first was a free kick taken by right back Emma Eddy ’15 which skimmed the crossbar. The second was from forward Sapir Edalati ’15, who forced CMU freshman goalkeeper Katie Liston to make a save.

The second half transpired similarly to the previous 45 minutes of play. Edalati forced Liston to make another save in the 54th minute.

However, CMU was able to counterattack and Quiros blasted a shot, which hit the post, keeping the game tied at zero. No other major chances would follow and the game would be sent into overtime.

CMU’s first offensive opportunity of overtime came from a long throw-in taken by junior forward Savina Reid. Reid found sophomore midfielder Allison McGugan inside the box. As McGugan prepared to shoot, a Brandeis defender took her down, giving Carnegie a penalty kick. Pendergast blasted the shot top corner well beyond the reach of Savuto. The game was Liston’s first shutout, and the Tartans moved to 7-2-2 and 1-1-1 in UAA play.

Despite the outcome, Isaacson hopes that the weekend tests can help the team improve.

“We played two very strong and physical teams this weekend, which tested us physically and mentally.

We need to put this weekend behind us and move forward in a positive manner,” said Isaacson, when asked about what the team can do to improve its game for the upcoming UAA matches.

The Judges resume play on the road next Thursday against University of Massachusetts Boston.

few Judges to record a kill percentage of .300 or better in any of the tournament games. Her performance this weekend represented yet another standout performance for the junior, having just earned the distinction as the ninth player in Brandeis history to record 1,000 kills earlier this year.

Outside hitter Si-Si Hensley ’14 and libero Elsie Bernaiche ’15 led the charge defensively for the day.

Hensley, in fact, led the team in digs against Case Western and Carnegie Mellon while Bernaiche earned that distinction in the matches against NYU and Emory.

The Judges, in their closest match of the tournament on Sunday against NYU, managed to jump out to a 17-14 lead in the first set before losing the lead on an 11-2 rally from the Violets.

In a streaky second set, NYU held a lead as large as nine points before the Judges started to fight back. Brandeis managed to pull within four points but the rally proved to be of no avail as NYU secured a 25-20 victory. The Judges were able to regroup and win the third set 26-24 after many lead changes and a key timeout taken by head coach Michelle Kim. The Judges capitalized, initiating a five-point rally that concluded with a winning kill from outside hitter Summer Koop ’16. By the fourth set, however, the momentum they gained did not last. The Judges gave up 13 consecutive points and NYU dominated en route to a 25-7 victory.

The Judges, before that, ran into a fourth-ranked Emory team that sought vengeance after suffering its first UAA defeat at the hands of the

University of Chicago.

The Eagles took care of business, defeating the Judges by final scores of 25-6, 25-15, and 25-11. Koop proved to be a bright spot for the Judges, earning a .500 kill percentage in 12 attempts.

Before that, the Judges squared off against Carnegie Mellon and Case, suffering defeat in both matches. The Tartans gained the upper hand with 25-15, 25-16 and 25-12 margins of victory while the Spartans won 25-20, 25-19 and 25-19.

With these results, the Judges have earned the number seven seed in the upcoming UAA tournament hosted in Gosman Sports and Convocation Center at Brandeis from Nov. 8 to 9.

Meanwhile, the Judges are able to look forward to visits from Mount Holyoke College and Smith College for the Hall of Fame Invitational this weekend.

According to middle blocker Carly Gutner-Davis, the team knows exactly what it needs to improve on moving forward.

“Our team talks a lot about bringing up and maintaining a high level of energy on the court, in warmups, games and practices,” she said.

“What [our performances this weekend] ultimately came down to is that we struggled to maintain a high and consistent level of energy this weekend and [our energy level] fluctuated. We have to work on bringing and maintaining a consistently high level of energy to the court and work on our consistency as a team.”

— Henry Loughlin contributed reporting

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MEN’S SOCCER UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS Goals

2013-2014 Statistics UAA Conf.

W L D Emory 3 0 1 Carnegie 3 1 0 Rochester 3 1 0 Chicago 2 2 0 Wash U. 1 2 1 Case 1 2 1 JUDGES 1 3 0 NYU 0 3 1

Overall W L D Pct. 10 3 1 .864 10 2 1 .708 10 2 1 .833 7 4 1 .773 7 4 2 .650 6 4 4 .636 11 4 0 .625 6 4 4 .583

Kyle Feather ’14 leads the team with nine goals.

Player Goals Kyle Feather 9 Tyler Savonen 7 Michael Soboff 4 Evan Jastremski 3

Assists Ben Applefield ’14 leads the team with seven assists.

Player Assists Michael Soboff 8 Ben Applefield 7 Tudor Livadaru 3

UPCOMING GAMES: Mon., Oct. 28 at Mount Ida Fri., Nov. 1 vs. WashU Sun., Nov 3 vs. Chicago

WOMEN’S SOCCER UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

2013-2014 Statistics

Goals

UAA Conf.

W L D Wash U. 4 0 0 Emory 3 1 0 Carnegie 2 1 1 NYU 2 1 1 JUDGES 1 2 1 NYU 0 2 2 Rochester 0 2 2 Case 0 3 1

Overall W L D Pct. 13 1 0 .929 10 3 1 .750 8 2 2 .750 9 3 2 .714 9 4 1 .679 6 5 3 .536 5 5 3 .500 7 7 1 .500

UPCOMING GAMES: Thursday at UMass Boston Fri., Nov. 1 vs. WashU Sun., Nov 3 vs. Chicago

Dara Spital ’15 leads the team with nine goals.

Player Goals Dara Spital 9 Sapir Edalati 7 Holly Szafran 3 Melissa Darling 2

Assists Dara Spital ’15 leads the team with six assists.

Player Assists Dara Spital 6 Holly Szafran 3 Jessica Morana 2

VOLLEYBALL UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

2013-2014 Statistics

Kills

UAA Conf.

W L WashU 6 1 Chicago 6 1 Emory 5 2 NYU 4 3 Carnegie 4 3 Case 2 5 JUDGES 1 6 Rochester 0 7

W 22 19 24 20 19 13 9 8

Overall L Pct. 5 .815 8 .704 3 .889 4 .833 7 .731 14 .481 17 .346 22 .267

UPCOMING GAMES: Friday vs. Tufts Saturday vs. Trinity Saturday vs. Smith

Liz Hood ’15 leads the team in kills with 323.

Player Kills Liz Hood 323 Si-Si Hensley 148 Carly Gutner-Davis 143 Rachael Dye 91

Digs Elsie Bernaiche ’15 leads the team in digs with 425.

Player Digs Elsie Bernaiche 425 Si-Si Hensley 246 Liz Hood 228 Amaris Brown 136

CROSS COUNTRY Results from the Connecticut College Invitational held on Oct. 19.

TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)

TOP FINISHERS (Women’s)

RUNNER TIME Quinton Hoey 26:27.0 Jarret Harrigan 26:30.0 Michael Rosenbach 26:36.0 Grady Ward 26:57.0

RUNNER TIME Amelia Lundkvist 21:34.0 Maddie Dolins 22:03.0 Kelsey Whitaker 22:07.0 Victoria Sanford 22:20.0

UPCOMING EVENTS: Saturday, Nov. 2 at the UAA Championships (held in Pittsburgh.)

Saturday, Nov. 16 at the New England Division III Regional Champoinships

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ABOVE WATER: Max Fabian ’15 races against Wheaton on Feb. 2. On Saturday, he had a strong showing against the Lyons.

Teams get off to quick start against local foe ■ The teams raced in their first meet of the season, falling at Wheaton despite several individual victories.

By DANIEL KANOVICH JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

The Brandeis men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams began their season this past Saturday in a dual meet at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. The men placed first in five total events while the women took first in three. In their first meet of the season, the men lost by a score of 183-86 while the women followed suit with a 187-53 defeat.

Even though the teams lost, Brian Luk ’16 thought both squads performed well.

“Considering the depth and size the Wheaton team has over us, we were able to pick up some wins,” Luk said. “Regardless of victory or not, everyone on the team swam some pretty good times. Overall I am really proud of what [our teams] did on Saturday.”

Max Fabian ’15 led the men’s squad with three first-place finishes in the

1000-yard freestyle, 200-yard butterfly and the 500-yard freestyle, placing first in every solo event he raced in.

In the 1000-yard freestyle, Fabian finished with a time of 10 minutes, 14.87 seconds, which gave him a 39.23 second margin of victory over second place. The margin was slimmer in the 200-yard butterfly; Fabian won by exactly two seconds.

The closest Fabian came to losing was in the 500-yard freestyle. After a slow start, he was able to overcome Wheaton senior Frederick Garneau at the 250-yard mark. From there, Fabian managed to hold onto the slim lead and win by .56 seconds.

Luk notched the only other solo victory that the Brandeis men had on the day, placing first in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 48.92 seconds.

In addition to his individual victory, Luk also set a personal record in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:48.08, but narrowly lost the lead in the final 50 yards of the race and eventually finished in second by a margin of .08 seconds.

The fifth victory came during the last event of the day, with Wheaton unofficially swimming the 200-yard freestyle relay, handing a victory,

and the points, to the Judges. The Judges proceeded to win the event by default.

The Brandeis women, competing after their male counterparts, opened with early success from Joanna Murphy ’17 in the 1000-yard freestyle.

Murphy placed first and finished with a time of 11:03.71, which was a massive 43 seconds faster than the second-place finisher.

Such a finish was pretty impressive for her collegiate debut. However, Murphy wasn’t done yet.

After winning the opening event, she continued to dominate the competition in the distance events, taking another first-place finish in the 500yard freestyle with a time of 5:34.35.

Gabby Drillich ’15 secured the Judges’ other individual victory in the 200-yard butterfly, finishing with a time of 2:36.03.

Furthermore, Fallon Bushee ’16 took second in two events, placing runner-up in the 50 free (26.26 seconds) and 100 free (58.14 seconds).

The Judges will return to action on Friday, when both teams compete at the University Athletic Association Invitational hosted by the University of Rochester.

BOSTON RED SOX RECAP Red Sox clinch American League pennant in six games by beating Tigers in memorable series Boston Red Sox right fielder Shane Victorino stepped up to the plate in the seventh inning of Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday with the bases loaded and a chance to erase a 2-1 deficit.

He had the chance to wipe away all memory of a dark phase in Red Sox history—an unfathomable September collapse in 2011 and an equally unimaginable last-place finish in the AL East Division in 2012.

Meanwhile, the odds were stacked against him. Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Max Scherzer had dominated through six innings, relinquishing just three hits.

Victorino had the opportunity to bring about total redemption—for a team and city that sorely needed it.

With one crack of the bat, he de-

livered. Victorino launched a grand slam into the Green Monster seats to hand the Sox a 5-2 lead and send Fenway Park into a frenzy.

All Boston had to do was turn to the best 1-2-3 punch in the game.

Relief pitchers Junichi Tazawa and Craig Breslow held the game in the seventh and eighth innings, and from there, closer Koji Uehara did the rest.

His third save of the series became the one that would deliver Boston to the promised land of its first World Series in six years.

The scene was unlike any that Boston had seen in some time.

“Just listen to the crowd,” Victorino said. “The one thing I came here to do is to be a part of this city. With all we went through as a city, there is definitely a bond.”

The bond between the Red Sox and its city was in full display in Game 2 on Oct. 13, especially after a 1-0 defeat in Game 1, in which Boston—the best offense in the league— failed to muster a hit until the ninth inning.

The Sox’s bats remained silent throughout Game 2, leading to a seemingly insurmountable 5-1 deficit in the eighth inning.

Designated hitter David Ortiz, the last remaining player from that historic 2004 team and the face of the modern-day Red Sox, had other plans in mind.

With the bases loaded and a playoff series on the line, Big Papi did what he does best. The veteran slugger pounced on a flat breaking ball, soaring over the leaping grasp of Tigers right fielder Torii Hunter and

into the right field bullpen.

Just like that, after the eventual 6-5 victory, the Red Sox had all of the momentum.

Tigers ace Justin Verlander and Red Sox starting pitcher John Lackey were locked in a pitchers’ duel in Game 3. However, as in Game 2, the outcome came down to one swing of the bat.

First baseman Mike Napoli zeroed in on Verlander’s only mistake pitch in the seventh inning, muscling the ball out of the park for a solo home run. The bullpen took care of the rest and the Sox held a 2-1 lead.

Starting pitcher Jake Peavy unraveled, though, for the Red Sox, coughing up seven runs in a 7-3 loss in Game 4. It soon became a mustwin situation for Boston in Game 5.

Napoli took it from here, carrying

the team on his back once more with a solo blast in the first inning.

Boston soon followed with three more runs, and even though the Sox surrendered three runs between the fifth and seventh innings to make things interesting, Uehara did what he does best. He mowed through the heart of the Tigers order, pulling Boston within one victory of the World Series.

He also pulled Boston to the World Series with a dominant ninth inning in Game 6, securing the save to set up a 2004 World Series rematch with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Nine years later, the magic is still in the air in Boston. The two teams will kick off World Series tomorrow night at Fenway Park at 8:07 p.m.

— Adam Rabinowitz

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STARTING SEASON WITH A SPLASH The men’s and women’s swimming and diving squads began their new campaign with five individual wins against Wheaton, p. 11.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

CROSS-COUNTRY

PRESSING FORWARD

Teams perform well in final meet of regular season ■ Amelia Lundkvist ’14

took second place, leading her team to a third-place finish against top rivals.

By AVI GOLD JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The men’s and women’s cross country teams completed an impressive weekend this past Saturday when both teams excelled at the Connecticut College Invitational at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Conn.

Led by Amelia Lundkvist ’14, the women finished third out of 21 competing teams with an average time of 22 minutes, 33 seconds and 108 points, only 11 points behind second place Ohio Wesleyan University and an average time of 10 seconds behind first-place Tufts University, who entered the competition ranked No. 11 nationally.

“We went out faster in the first race [than in previous races] and our goal was to do really well against Tufts,” said co-captain Victoria Sanford ’14.

“We wanted to stick our heads out and see what we could do against them.”

Ludkvist averaged five minutes, 47 seconds per mile for the six-kilometer race, crossing the finish line at 21:34 in second place out of the 257-runner field. She was followed by Maddie Dolins ’17 whose 22:03 time resulted in a fifth-place finish in her first sixkilometer race of the year.

Sanford remarked that Dolins has not only impressed her during competition, but has been equally as impressive between races as well.

“Maddie had really great training in high school, which is good because it is usually a tough adjustment,” Sanford said. “She’s stepped up and we really needed that. It’s really impressive that she’s been able to do that as a first-year runner.”

The Judges also got strong performances from Kelsey Whitaker ’16 and Sanford, who both finished in the top 10 at 22:07 and 22:20, respectively.

Whitaker’s sixth place finish was four seconds behind Dolins and six behind fourth place.

Rounding out the team’s scoring were Maggie Hensel ’16, who finished at 24:40 in 96th place overall. Furthermore, the Judges received solid per-

formances from Julia Schiantarelli ’17, who crossed the line with a time of 25:30 and a 147th place overall finish, and Heather Murphy ’17, who ended at 25:47 to finish in 158th place overall.

The meet marked the third straight meet that Lundkvist ended as runnerup. In each of the three races, she has come within five seconds of the top spot. The Judges look to use her individual success as a springboard for team success moving forward.

“We’re excited, normally we’ve not done well at [the University Athletic Association Championships] and Regionals because of numbers, but this year we’re excited because of [a full squad],” Sanford said. I think we can do some damage and make people say, ‘Oh wow, where did they come from?’”

While the men finished 10th as a team, the Judges still had strong individual performances throughout their lineup and finished 10th out of 21 competing teams. In the eight-kilometer race, the team finished with an average time of 27 minutes, a time slower than both 11th place University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and 12th place Gwynedd-Mercy College, but finished more than 10 points better than the two with 291 points.

For the third time this year, the team had a new top finisher when Quinton Hoey ’17 finished in 32nd place out of 248 runners at 26:27, just five seconds off his personal best for the 8-kilometer course. Three seconds behind Hoey was Jarret Harrigan ’15 who finished at 26:30, good for 35th place.

The strong team performance continued with Michael Rosenbach ’15 and Grady Ward ’16, who finished at 26:36 and 26:57, respectively, and 42nd and 67th overall, respectively. Ward’s fourth place team finish was his best finish of the year. Rounding out the Judges were Liban Aden ’16, whose 154th place finish saw him finish the course at 28:26, and Daniel Leon ’17, who squeaked under the half hour mark at 29:05 and a 182nd place finish.

Looking forward, Sanford sees only positives from a weekend as successful as this one.

“We’ve worked hard and we look forward to [showing our capabilities],” she said.

Both teams return to action with University Athletic Association Championships on Nov. 2, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University.

VOLLEYBALL

Squad drops matches at UAA Round Robin ■ The volleyball squad fell to Emory, NYU, Carnegie and Case in the team’s final UAA road matches of the year.

By DAN ROZEL JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Brandeis volleyball team suffered a string of tough defeats at the hands of several of their University Athletic Association rivals this past weekend at Washington University in St. Louis. The ladies were swept in successive matches against Carn-

egie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University and No. 4 Emory University. The Judges managed to take a set against New York University but ended up falling by a three-set to one-set margin in the last match of the tournament.

Brandeis, with the set of losses, drops to a 9-17 overall mark and a 1-6 UAA record. The squad also has not won a game since its Oct. 10 road match at Emerson College.

The struggles for the Judges stemmed from their low kill percentage throughout the tournament. Outside hitter Liz Hood ’15 was one of the

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PASSING THE TEST: Midfielder Tudor Livadaru ’14 goes to battle with a Massachusetts Maritime player in Tuesday’s win.

Judges downed on the road by UAA opponents ■ After beating a local foe on

Tuesday, the men suffered an overtime loss at Carnegie before falling 3-1 at Emory.

By HENRY LOUGHLIN JUSTICE EDITOR

When men’s soccer forward Evan Jastremski ’17 scored the first goal of Sunday’s University Athletic Association game against Emory University after just 21 seconds, it looked like the Judges were on their way to avenging Friday’s overtime loss to Carnegie Mellon University.

However, the team gave up two goals in the first half and a third in the second, resulting in a 3-1 setback.

It was the third game in five days for the Judges, as they fell 2-1 in double overtime at Carnegie after beating the Massachusetts Maritime Academy 6-3 in a home contest on Tuesday night.

“We are not playing well,” said head coach Michael Coven after Sunday’s defeat. “Today, we were completely outmatched. It was very disappointing. Against Carnegie, I thought we had moments when we played well, but they had more possession. I don’t think we deserved to win that game, I think they dominated the flow, but we held our own.”

Against the Eagles, the Judges got a dream start with less than a minute on the clock.

Jastremski caught Emory flat-footed. After being set up by forward Michael Soboff ’15, the first-year forward

slotted the ball past Eagles’ sophomore goalkeeper Abe Hannigan and into the net for a 1-0 lead.

However, the Judges weren’t able to maintain the momentum, conceding the tying goal in the 19th minute. Emory junior defender Jason Cochran set up junior forward Dylan Price with a long throw, which Price headed into the net past goalkeeper Joe Graffy ’15 to knot the game up at one goal apiece.

The Eagles went up 2-1 just 10 minutes later as freshman forward Jason Andrejchak took advantage of some sloppy defending from the Judges.

Yet, the Judges were down by a goal at the half and still had plenty of time to even the score. Unfortunately, Brandeis instead conceded a third goal.

Emory senior forward Andrew Jones fired a shot that Graffy stopped.

However, Price proved to be on the spot again, putting the rebound into the right corner for the 3-1 advantage.

Soboff had a late effort from a direct kick that was saved by Hannigan, but ultimately, the Judges weren’t able to pull a goal back.

Coven was disappointed with the performance following the Judges’ early goal.

“We scored 21 seconds into the game,” he said. “[In all of our UAA losses this season], we’ve been ahead and we can’t sustain that momentum to carry us through the game. We got handily beat today in every aspect of the game.”

Against Carnegie, the game was a back-and-forth, tepid affair in the first half.

The Judges had the first attempt of the match, as forward Tyler Savonen ’15 sent a shot on net that was hacked off of the line.

The Judges got their own break, though, in the 41st minute. Senior midfielder Jerome Reano sent an effort on net, which beat Graffy and headed for the top of the net. However, the shot caromed off the crossbar and to safety, keeping the game deadlocked.

Down at the other end, midfielder Tudor Livadaru ’14 sent a shot just over the net, which resulted in a 0-0 stalemate at the end of the first half.

Just when it appeared that secondhalf scoring opportunities would pass the Judges by, they received a goal from an unlikely source.

Center-back Conor Lanahan ’16, coming up from his defensive position, headed in the go-ahead goal with just under 20 minutes remaining in regulation.

However, just seven minutes later, a defensive miscue proved costly. A Brandeis defender whiffed on a clear, which allowed Reano to poke the ball past Graffy and fired it into the top of the net to deadlock the game at 1-1.

Both teams had opportunities to win the game down the stretch. However, neither team found the net, resulting in extra time.

After a free kick from left back Ben Applefield ’14 that flew just over the net, right back Josh Hacunda ’16 had an effort that he put over the bar.

However, both efforts were futile.

The Tartans then transitioned and scored the winning goal.

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JustArts Volume LXVI, Number 8

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

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

Waltham, Mass.

‘1959 Pink Thunderbird’ Brandeis Ensemble Theater starts the season with stellar side show

In this issue:

The Paper Kites Australian band drops new album

P. 19

Science at the Art Museum Lecture explores the science of art P. 15

Amy Sillman

Artist’s exhibition opens in Boston P. 17

Understanding Pornography

Lecture demystifies cultural fad

P. 15

More Than Words

Professor plays at open mic night P. 17

Waltham’s Top Tapas Solea restaurant hits the spot P. 19

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ON-CAMPUS EVENTS Israel: Art and Politics—A Love Story

Meet the Artist: Join us as renowned video artist Gilad Ratman, who is representing Israel in the Venice Biennale this year, presents his work in two classes on Wednesday, Oct. 23.

Wednesday from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in the Mandel Center for Humanities, Room 328.

‘Boeing, Boeing’

It’s the 1960s, and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn’t be happier: a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard’s perfect life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay and a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off all of his careful planning. Presented by the undergraduate theater club Brandeis Players.

Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday through Sunday at 2 p.m. through 8 p.m. at the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. This event is free and open to the public.

Phill Skokos ’15 and Brian Dorfman ’16 Students co-direct BET’s first production of the year JOSH HOROWITZ/the Justice

Lecture: Reva Wolf on Andy Warhol

This week, JustArts sat down with Brian Dorfman ’16 and Phill Skokos ’15, who co-directed the Brandeis Theater Ensemble’s production of 1959 Pink Thunderbird this weekend.

As part of the Warhol exhibition on view at the Rose Art Museum this fall, Reva Wolf, a professor of art history at the State University of New York-New Paltz and the author of Andy Warhol, Poetry and Gossip in the 1960s, will be giving a guest lecture.

Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Rose Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public.

JustArts: Would you guys tell us a bit about your time with Brandeis Ensemble Theater and how you first got involved?

Phill Skokos: We really wanted to put a show on—at first it was Harvey, written by Mary Chase. But then we decided to go a bit unorthodox, and we found this play called Lone Star / Laundry & Bourbon.

Take a break from globetrotting and come to the annual Fall Fest Variety Show, a fan favorite. This year, join us for an around-the-world experience, featuring acts like Kaos Kids, Starving Artists, TBA, and other exciting and impressive student performing groups.

Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Levin Ballroom. This event is free and open to the public.

Brian Dorfman: In our minds, or at least my mind, it’s all about how everyone in west Texas was affected by Vietnam in the post-war era. We wanted specifically for this [show] to not have the main stage, and BET loves to accommodate, because they love putting on side shows.

JA: Can you talk a bit more about how 1959 Pink Thunderbird was selected to be performed? You said you found it in a used book?

PS: That’s more or less how I collect a lot of plays. I’m not a Theater major… but I’ve been doing theater for the past 16 years. It’s like doing a career in theater, except not being paid. So I like to update my knowledge with plays.

BD: Over the summer, we proposed to BET this side show proposal—we kept a minimum budget, we kept it all very simple, very standard. We wanted three male actors, three female actors. And we got accepted, and it was a really cool moment.

JA: What challenges have you encountered in bringing the play to the stage?

PS: We had to go through three actors, more or less, because they had a lot of conflicts during the rehearsal process. And eventually we found [an actor for the role of] Cletus. We were really happy to have Steven Kline ’14.

BD: After we found our perfect cast, one of the biggest challenges we ran into was making certain lines—the jokes within them—really come out. I think one of the biggest challenges was on the Ray Charles line, where they have a small call back to it [later in the show].

PS: And then there are things that keep coming up in both acts. Like, again with Cletus, his inexperience with women, and Roy, with his 1959 Thunderbird— there are a lot of motifs that get carried back and forth through the play.

BD: And a lot of how we overcame it came from the actors, honestly. They really gave us the—“well what if I just do this?” Like Page Smith ’17, playing Hattie, when she covered her eyes [to act out] Ray Charles, and it helped a lot.

JA: Do you guys have a favorite moment in the play?

BD: I love all of it, I hate to say it.

PS: [In Lone Star] when Cletus comes in and talks to Ray and he’s like “Guys, I messed up. I kind of broke the Thunderbird.”

That was really fun to keep rehearsing because there’s so much urgency within that scene, and urgency really makes a play keep going. And as for Laundry & Bourbon, the parts when Amy Lee comes on, because Amy Lee is such a character.

— Rachel Hughes

Take a break from your jet setting adventures around Brandeis and come to watch the comedic talents of Judah Friedlander! Best known for his role as Frank Rossitano on Emmy awardwinning 30 Rock, Friedlander is also famous for his athletic prowess, impressive martial artistry, ceaseless charm and dashing good looks. Also, his modesty. A self-proclaimed “World Champion,” Judah will undoubtedly entertain and wow you with his endless list of mind-blowing talents.

Friday at 9 p.m. in the Shapiro Gym at Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Tickets are available through Brandeis Tickets. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for Brandeis family members and Brandeis faculty and staff and $5 for Brandeis students.

‘[title of show]’

The senior show of Helena Raffel ’14, [title of show], is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and a book by Hunter Bell.

The show chronicles its own creation as an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and follows the struggles of the author and composer and lyricist and their two actress friends during the initial brief (three week) creative period, along with subsequent events leading up to the show’s production.

Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Merrick Theater, Spingold Theater Center. This event is free and open to the public, although seating is limited.

Annual Fall Fest Variety Show

Lone Star I found in a used book sale and it was cool because it was a really funny play, and no one really knew it, but it had an edge to it. Lone Star is about three Texans who, after the Vietnam war, they go to a bar, they have some fun, they cruise a bit.

PS: It was fortunate that we found BET to support this production, and I think BET is really happy for the show.

Judah Friedlander

Hocus Pocus

Get into the Halloween spirit as you celebrate Fall Fest weekend with friends and family by watching a childhood favorite. We put a spell on you, and now you can’t help but love this movie. Student Events sure does!

Friday from 8 to 11 p.m. in Schwartz Hall Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public

OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS Exhibition: Mary Reid Kelley

Composed of live-action and stopmotion animation, the South Carolina native’s narrative videos present historical or myth-based stories. At the center of each is a main character or narrator played by Reid Kelley, who appears costumed, bewigged and practically unrecognizable, her face painted white with features defined in black. A trained painter, Kelley creates all of her costumes, props, and sets in black and white, creating a kind of three-dimensional drawing.

Exhibition is on view in the Fotene Demoulas Gallery in the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston through this Sunday. General admission is $15 and student admission is $10.

‘John Singer Sargent Watercolors’

Presenting more than 90 of Sargent’s dazzling works, this exhibition, co-organized with the Brooklyn Museum, combines for the first time the two most significant collections of watercolor paintings by Sargent (1856–1925), images created by a consummate artist with daring compositional strategies and a complex technique. John Singer Sargent Watercolors also celebrates a century of Sargent watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

On view through Jan. 20 in the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Tickets range from $23 to $25 and are available online at http://mfa.org/.

Drake at TD Garden

The rising rapper is coming to Boston as part of his current tour, ‘So You Want A Tour.’ Drake is on tour on the tails of his newly released album, September’s Nothing Was The Same. Rappers Miguel and Future will also be touring with Drake and performing at TD Garden.

Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. at TD Garden, Boston. Tickets range from $60 to $115 and are available online at http://ticketmaster.com/.

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ww Brandeis! This semester has Hey just been flying by, hasn’t it? Here’s this week’s juicy pop culture news to get you out of the midterm slump.

It took a while, but actress Kristen Bell confirmed on Twitter that she married actor Dax Shepard on Thursday in the most under-the-radar of fashions. Sources say that the couple went to get a marriage license at the Beverly Hills County Clerk Office, but a court employee offered to officiate a ceremony right there.

In the past, both Bell, 32, and Shepard, 38, have voiced their desires to have a low-key affair when the time came. The former Veronica Mars star and Shepard, who currently has a prominent role on Parenthood, had been engaged for three years. In March, Bell gave birth to their daughter, Lincoln. So why did it take so long for the couple to get married? Well, they stuck to their conviction that they would not tie the knot until California legalized gay marriage.

Back in June, when the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and overturned California’s Proposition 8, Kristen Bell took to Twitter to re-propose to Shepard.

At last, the couple has finally made things official!

Now, following news of this happy marriage comes the news of a nasty split … among the Jonas Brothers.

The brothers canceled their upcoming tour just two days before it was set to start. The band’s spokesman told People Magazine, rather cryptically, that “a deep rift within the band” caused the cancelation.

While in attendance at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Gala in Beverly Hills on Thursday, the middle brother, Joe, 24, refused to comment any further on the dissolution of the band when asked.

Supposedly, the brothers are looking to embark on solo projects again.

Youngest brother Nick, 21, is said to be working on new material with his side act, Nick Jonas and the Admin-

By Mara Sassoon

CREATIVE COMMONS

WEDDING BELLS: Actors Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell have finally tied the knot this month. istration. Meanwhile, oldest brother Kevin, 25, is at an entirely different stage of his life and is expecting a baby with his wife, Danielle.

What’s more, the Jo Bros’ official Twitter account has been deactivated, though the brothers still have their individual accounts active. Who knows what to make of all these cancellations and deactivations, but doesn’t this news just make it feel like your world has been turned on its head?

Let’s finish this week’s pop culture recap with some super bizarre news out of Hollywood—director Michael Bay getting attacked with an airconditioner. No, it wasn’t a group of film connoisseurs so fed up with Bay’s

churning out puffy action flicks for the Transformers franchise who initiated the attack. On his personal blog, Bay described how on Thursday, a man came onto the set of his fourth Transformers film in Hong Kong, wielding a long air-conditioning unit.

He alluded that the man, who also tried demanding money from the film crew, was under the influence of some drug as he tried to hit him with the air-conditioner.

Bay was not severely injured in this attempted attack, nor was anyone else in the cast or crew. Maybe the man thought he was auditioning for the part of a Decepticon? More on the Transformer revolution next week!

ARTS COVER PHOTOS: MORGAN BRILL/the Justice, Creative Commons and courtesy of Seth Coluzzi. DESIGN: Morgan Brill and Rafaella Schor/the Justice.

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PANEL

Lecture analyzes pornography in culture

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ALL HEADS TURNED: As part of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, the panel of three professors discussed pornography in the context of their fields.

By RACHEL HUGHES AND ALEXANDRA ZELLE RETTMAN JUSTICE EDITOR AND JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Last Wednesday evening, Shiffman room 219 was packed with students coming from classes in all different directons, from all different departments. What could be attracting such a diverse group of students, you ask? The answer is simple: pornography. More specifically, a panel lecture presented by the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project—a program started by Prof. Bernadette Brooten (NEJS) and Prof. Anita Hill (Heller).

The lecture was given not only as part of the Project’s programming, but also as a special learning opportunity for students in Brooten’s course, “NEJS 29a: Feminist Sexual Ethics in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.”

The panel was composed of Sarah Leonard, an Associate Professor of History at Simmons College, who trained as a cultural historian of gender in modern Germany; Burlin Barr, a professor of English and cin-

ema studies at Central Connecticut State University; and Emily Rothman, an Associate Professor in the department of Community Health Studies at the Boston University School of Public Health. The three formed a graduate consortium and are teaching an interdisciplinary course together on pornography at the Massachusetts Instutute of Technology, which Brooten called “a widespread cultural phenomenon that is under-researched,” as she introduced them.

While the advertisement for the panel promised “a discussion on how and why pornography has sparked such interest among feminists,” there were some aspects of the lecture that did not interact with the feminist perspective. Barr’s segment deviated the most from this promised theme, as he attempted to lecture about pornography in terms of its cinematic elements.

Barr alluded to the idea of the mixture of emotions that consuming something taboo like pornography elicits—“shame, embarrassment, disgust … pleasure, curiosity, con-

nection, abandonment and loneliness.” He spoke about the desires associated with viewing pornography, explaining that desire is something that is set up in the genre of pornography the same way a scene is set up in a film. He did not, however, acknowledge the popular discourse on voyeurism or the notion of “the gaze” that is so prevalent in studies of film, sexuality and gender.

Perhaps the most factual and smooth presentation was given by Rothman, an epidemiologist in violence services, who has served as the director of a battered women’s shelter in Vermont. “I am a health scientist,” she began, “I develop questions and try and answer them.

I am not an anti-porn feminist or a pro-porn feminist. My research is about protecting people from violence.” Rothman discussed a study about the effect of porn on its consumers, which concluded that after exposure to mainstream porn, which incorporates acts of physical aggression, “women felt that they were less empowered.” Rothman also discussed the types of pornog-

raphy that are most commonly consumed by young viewers, citing one study that found that “by the age of 18, 18 percent of boys and 10 percent of women have seen rape and sexual violence in porn,” and from another study, that: “88 percent of modern porn contains physical aggression.”

Rothman’s presentation added necessary facts and statistics based on solid, scientific research that anchored a topical discussion in quantitative evidence.

Providing a historical background to the discussion, Leonard opened her talk with the very beginnings of pornographic texts, saying that, “In the eighteenth century, there were pornographies written that were quite beautiful in depicting how women found their sexuality.” She gave the audience an idea of where our modern conception of “pornography” as a genre comes from. Before pornography had its own generic classification, she said that it was librarians who had to group erotic and explicit texts together, as “they had to put these types of images and books in

specific places.” The genre was not completely erotic at first, and many educational materials were classified as pornography. “Pornography has had a long link with non-reproductive sexual habits dating back to the eighteenth century because women were afraid of getting pregnant [since] they could die.”

Because the panel lasted roughly an hour with a twenty-minute open discussion at the end, it was unfortunate that the panelists had only fifteen minutes each to present their research. The cultural implications of pornography warrant a much more substantial space in the academic sphere than a onetime lecture—some panelists were even distracted by the time crunch, which detracted from their overall presentation. Hopefully, this panel will serve as the first of many opportunities for pornography to be explored in academia.

In the end, the panel provided the attendees with the unusual and extremely necessary opportunity to think about pornography in a legitimate and structured setting.

LECTURE

MFA scientist explains the place for science in art

By EMILY WISHINGRAD REAL OR FAKE?: Science is used in art museums to determine the authenticity of pieces, like this ancient Minoan goddess statuette.

CREATIVE COMMONS

JUSTICE EDITOR

Last Tuesday night, Richard Newman, the head of scientific research at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, gave a fascinating lecture titled “Science in the Art Museum” as part of the Art of Science lectures, a series sponsored by Brandeis’ Women in Science Initiative. At first glance, the topic of the lecture seems a little strange—art museums are usually not thought of in the realm of the sciences. However, Newman explained that the science of preservation, conservation, determining authenticity and studying the deterioration of art is extremely crucial to learning about and maintaining artwork. It is so important that many scientists, including Newman, have devoted their lives to this field of study.

Newman began by talking about the history of the scientific study of art and about the place of the MFA in that history. In the United States, the first labs in museums appeared in the late 1920s. The MFA was only the second museum in the United States to have a science lab, and, according to Newman, in the 1960s, its lab was known as one of the best in the world.

Newman moved on to discuss the difficulties that labs in museums are facing today. One major problem today is that lab equipment is extremely expensive, averaging

$100,000 per piece, making it very difficult for museums, especially smaller ones, to fund a lab. Even the MFA, a relatively large museum, cannot afford the most cutting-edge equipment. Part of the reason for this is the cost but also there are only two scientists in the museum laboratory who use and take care of the equipment—they are, as Newman said, “a cottage industry.”

Museums have found ways of remedying the issues of costs and personnel demand by creating a system of collaboration. Larger museums, including the MFA, offer their services in analyzing artwork for free to smaller museums and universities who cannot afford the equipment. Newman mentioned that the MFA recently did some work with Prof. Andrew Koh (CLAS) and hopes to work more with Brandeis professors as well as students in the future. He also described how museums in Europe have remedied the problem of finances by designing mobile labs: facilities that can be moved from museum to museum.

Northwestern University, in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago, is currently starting to develop a similarly styled laboratory.

In the second half of the lecture, Newman talked about knowledge that we have acquired about art by way of science. More specifically, he talked about two pieces in the MFA that have raised some questions of authenticity. One such piece was an

ivory and gold statue of a snake goddess that was thought to be ancient Minoan. Newman and his colleague conducted some tests on the piece per the request of a curator. The lab, he said, could not effectively perform carbon dating tests on the piece as it was covered in wax. Instead, they had to test the gold for the presence of other metals, and discovered high amounts of copper in it—too high compared to other samples from that time period and place of origin. The lab concluded that it is very unlikely that the statue was Minoan. It has been suggested that the archeologist who claimed to have discovered it and his team may have manufactured the statue. This cannot be proven, but the statue is no longer on display.

Newman ended his lecture with some comments on the lack of information that museums provide to the public about the scientific findings regarding the artwork, including information about authenticity.

This is because, as Newman said, “[museums] like to minimize words on labels” so that they are more accessible to the public. With so few words, there just isn’t enough room for scientific information. In addition, museums do not like to admit when they are uncertain about the authenticity of the artwork. So next time you visit an art museum, be sure to think more carefully about how we know what we know about the pieces on display.

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THEATER REVIEW

SOUTHERN BELLES: Hattie, Elizabeth and Amy Lee (from left to right), the ladies of Maynard County, have a heated talk.

PHOTOS BY MORGAN BRILL/the Justice

‘Lone Star’ play earns five stars RACHEL HUGHES JUSTICE EDITOR

To kick off their fall 2013 season, this weekend the Brandeis Ensemble Theater performed American playwright James McLure’s 1959 Pink Thunderbird. The play dissects the themes of hope and complacency in the small Texas town of Maynard and is told in two acts, “Laundry & Bourbon” and “Lone Star.” While 1959 Pink Thunderbird is only a side project for BET and featured a small cast of only six undergraduate students, the production warranted a stellar finished production.

The performances were staged in Ridgewood Commons, which posed a unique challenge: how to perform a two-act, almost twohour-long play that was composed entirely of conversations in an untraditional space.

The two sets—one for each act—were minimalistic, although thoughtful, and reflected the attributes and lives of the characters who inhabited them. “Laundry & Bourbon” was up first, featuring female characters of 1970s Maynard: Hattie, Elizabeth and Amy Lee. Set in Elizabeth’s living room, the black backdrop was fronted by a few rustic metal chairs, a television set, a basket of laundry with some clothing hung on a line and a bar cart topped with a sizeable bottle of bourbon. At intermission, the crew speedily dismantled the “Laundry & Bourbon” set and reassembled the space for “Lone Star.” This second act was set right outside the town joint, Angel’s Bar, with a couple of benches and a six-pack of beer situated on the ground for the late-night conversations between the Maynard men Ray, Roy and Cletus.

1959 Pink Thunderbird is haunted by a ghost character, so to speak, from which it gains its title—a 1959 pink Thunderbird car owned by Elizabeth’s husband Roy, a remnant of his glory days in high school, and simple times before he went away to fight in Vietnam for two years. In “Laundry & Bourbon,” best friends Elizabeth, played by Kiana Nwaobia ’17 and Hattie, played by Page Smith ’17, lament the passing of the idyllic days of their youth, when all was simple and they were each happily in love.

Every character talks about the Thunderbird in the same way that Jay Gatsby talks

POINTING FINGERS: The timid Cletis (right, played by Steven Kline ’14) works up the courage to express his anger at Roy.

about the green light at the end of his love’s dock in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby—as a romantic symbol of what has passed, expressing an overwhelming desire to keep living in the past. “You know, sometimes I think he loves that car more than me,” Elizabeth says wistfully of Roy to Hattie at the beginning of the play. Hattie answers, “It’s just a car,” but Elizabeth says again, “Yeah, but he says it can take him where he wants to go.” The two keep on waxing poetic until Amy Lee, played by Morgan Winters ’17, pays a visit and a rocky history between the group of women causes the truth about their relationships and lives to come out.

Winters and Smith built up a fantastic dynamic on stage, bantering back and forth with dry one-liners and backing up their lines with an array of expressive body language, ranging from subtle smirks to even a chase around the stage. Nwaobia balanced this pair well, maintaining an emotional composure and providing a comic sensibility through disagreements between her two stage-mates.

The storyline established in “Laundry & Bourbon” carries over into “Lone Star,” where the women’s husbands commiserate about their troubles. Roy, played by Aaron Fineberg ’15, has just returned from Vietnam, and the act opens into his very drunken night as he shares a beer with his brother Ray, played by Isaac Rabbani ’14. Roy is filled with rage and regret, heightened by his drunkenness, and Fineberg enacts this in a manner that is both hilarious and effective by moving across the stage in the most manic of ways. Amy Lee’s husband Cletis, played

by Steven Kline ’14, in an act of uncharacteristic boldness actually crashes and destroys Roy’s Thunderbird, and Kline demonstrates the timidity and apologetic manner of Cletis well as he delivers lines to Ray with stress and concern. Rabbani balances the polarized emotional characters of Roy and Cletis as he urges Roy to reflect and to move on through acts of comic relief.

As the play comes to a close, Ray is finally able to get through to the still drunk Roy, who grandly proclaims, “Well, we all got to grow up sometimes, Roy,” a perfectly sentimental ending to a play fraught with regret, contemplation and uncertainty.

YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME: Elizabeth (Kiana Nwaobia ’17) restrains her friend Hattie (Page Smith ’17) while she gets enraged at Amy Lee during their visit.

BOTTOMS UP: Brothers Roy (left, played

by Aaron Fineberg ’15) and Ray (played by Isaac Rabbani ’14) have a drink together.

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ART EXHIBIT

ICA artist reconsiders social stereotypes SLOW CLIMB: A work of oil on canvas, titled “Me & Ugly Mountain,” completed by Sillman in 2003, expresses social anxieties.

DEEP BLUE SEA: Sillman’s 1997 calming work of oil on canvas, called “Ocean 1.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN BERENS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE MCKEE GALLERY, NEW YORK

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN BERENS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF GREGORY R. MILLER AND MICHAEL WIENER, NEW YORK

OUTER LIMITS: “Regarding Saturna,” Sillman’s 2005 abstract work of oil on canvas, shows human togetherness.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN BERENS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEROME AND ELLEN STERN

By KIRAN GILL JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

The first museum survey of the American artist Amy Sillman is currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Helen Molesworth, scholar, writer and Chief Curator of the ICA, brought together pieces which explore the relationship between Sillman’s drawings and paintings—a relationship that juxtaposes figuration and abstraction. Sillman’s use of soft and bright pastel shades plus cartoon-like figures is reminiscent of childhood daydreams and storybooks, but also of the space where the conscious meets the subconscious.

Yet, underlying each work is Sillman’s innate understanding of social anxiety, awkwardness and doubt.

Each room in the exhibition displays a grouping of paintings that share a common theme. The first groupings of paintings are portraits of art world

movers and shakers. A few of the images are overlaid with black text with phrases such as, “This doesn’t work,” “(She looks better in person,)” or “I couldn’t get this one right.” The black text on top of the images captures the viewer’s attention and draws a greater interest in the piece as the viewer attempts to decipher what is wrong with each piece. Crossing out an image and labeling it as a poor work captures the viewer’s attention. There is something beautiful in the artist’s self-proclaimed ugly and unskilled portrait as we, the viewer, peer intently at the piece hoping to decipher why or how the piece is unloved by the artist.

Humor also plays a significant role in Sillman’s work. For example, in “Seating Chart,” a white piece of paper with a large rectangle is filled with the bright colored pencils that display, rather than the individual’s name, the mental state of the individual in each seat. These names include,

“SENSE OF SOCIAL INFERIORITY,” “HOMOPHOBIA AND MISOGYNY” and “FREQUENT FANTASIES OF DOOM.” These new names, which highlight the individual’s social fears and uncertainties, are exactly what the class thinks about each of their peers, but would never admit or acknowledge in a public setting.

Whereas “Seating Chart” depicts the awkwardness of social life, another collection of drawings, black and white and cartoon-like, and sketchy in their formal quality, comment on the nature of the art world. Individuals in exaggeratedly cool poses casually ask each other, “Are you going to Basel?” The pictures poke fun at the pretensions nature of this world of art, just as “A Phrase Guide for the Spring Art Season,” depicts two columns. They show the comments an individual will say to an artist or about the exhibition, “I love your work!” and “It’s so cinematic!” for example, which are then placed

next to what the individual is actually thinking “Can I go now?” and “Seemingly endless,” respectively.

Another grouping of drawings depicts the intimate moment of physical touch between couples as they cuddle and relax together. Laying next to each other, the couples Sillman drew were her personal friends who she requested to sit together in whatever pose they wanted so long as they were physically touching. Sillman first drew them in that staged instance of physical intimacy and then, once she was at her apartment, would redraw the event from memory. Here we see images of painful awkwardness mingled with occasional moments of happiness that depict the true nature of relationships.

From these drawings where physical contact is emphasized, Sillman made the formal leap to large scale, geometric abstractions. The original drawings serve as a template for these paintings that have blocks of color, vectored

lines and a pulsating energy to depict the physical intimacy of the original drawings.

Not all of Sillman’s paintings are abstractions, though. In “Me & Ugly Mountain,” a small, diminutive figure, standing in the left hand corner of the snowy, white landscape is completely dwarfed by the mountainous bundle of human anxiety, composed of various limbs and geometric shapes behind.

The figure pulls this bundle behind her with a thin stream of string. She stands passively, her face is inactive and the image displays the fears and baggage everyday, average people carry constantly inside themselves.

Sillman’s work has the uncanny ability to connect to audience members as she cuts through the smoke and mirrors of appearance to reveal the uncomfortable and at times debilating emotions that wreak havoc on one’s existence. This engaging exhibition is on view till the 5th of January.

OPEN MIC

Coluzzi performs for Waltham

By EMILY WISHINGRAD JUSTICE EDITOR

Friday night, Prof. Seth Coluzzi (MUS) performed the feature act at the openmic night at More Than Words, an independent bookstore in Waltham. More Than Words is not your typical bookseller. This used bookstore was founded as a non-profit business and is run by at-risk youth with the goal of helping them create a positive trajectory for their careers.

Every third Friday of the month, More Than Words hosts an open-mic night.

There is always one featured guest and 12 available slots for anybody who comes in to sign up that evening.

The bookstore provided a very cozy atmosphere for the show. The audience sat in armchairs, surrounded by books while the smell of freshly baked cookies wafted in from the bookstore’s café.

Coluzzi, who has played at More Than Words before, seemed to know the regulars and fit right in with the community. When I asked Coluzzi if any of his students ever come, he said he’s not very good at promoting himself. Coluzzi simply loves playing for the regulars, the performers and whoever shows up.

I noticed that there was a strong sense of community among the performers.

When a musician asked another musician if he could borrow his guitar for a song, the man enthusiastically said of

course and that he would even tune it again for him before his performance.

The audience cheered each other on and yelled out complements at the end of all of the performances.

The night was very eclectic. There were musicians who had written their own music, singers who sang along with songs on their iPods and there was even a man who played a miniature harp.

The first performer, a guitarist and singer, prefaced his song by saying that he wasn’t much of a musician and more of a poet. He confessed that this was his first time playing in front of a crowd and asked the audience to be understanding if he made mistakes.

There were some amazing youth that performed, including a girl, maybe 10 or 12, who sang Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” with passion that I didn’t know was possible for such a young girl.

She very confident on stage and her voice was beautiful and powerful. The audience sat forward in their seats, mouths open. I will be looking for this girl at the top of the iTunes charts in 10 years or so.

Coluzzi played last, dressed in understated clothing: a baseball hat and jeans.

His songs were sincere and soulful and they featured his instrument, the guitar, and his vocals equally.

You could clearly hear the lyrics, which was nice because they were as beautiful as the vocal and instrumental

melodies. Coluzzi reminded me of singersongwriter Jackson Browne in that his songs were poetic and heartfelt.

Coluzzi’s second song, “Weekend Respite,” or “Blue Ridge Parkway,” as he affectionately calls it, was an upbeat song about a road trip. The song was about a singular trip but also about the journey of life. Coluzzi sang, “[I will] never stop ‘till the day I reach my grave.”

Coluzzi told the audience that he would “slow things down” with his next song, “Volatile Moments.” This song was indeed more melancholy.

It had a slow and steady beat and the lyrics talked about misunderstanding and communication between lovers as they tried to, as Coluzzi sang, “sit down and talk.”

Coluzzi ended with a song called, “City Lines,” my favorite of the set. The song was a political song about cities in relation to the world and Coluzzi illustrated this idea with poignant lyrics, demonstrating the interplay between city and earth. He sang, “city gets bigger, earth gets smaller” and, “city spins faster, earth turns more slowly.” The beat was very catchy and had me tapping my feet.

More Than Words’ open-mic night is definitely something I would go to again.

It’s a mellow way to spend a Friday evening and a surprise every time—you never know who will walk in the door and take the stage.

PHOTO BY MICHELLE LANDSTORM

LITERARY HEAVEN: Surronded by books, Prof. Seth Coluzzi (MUS) sang his own, original, meditative songs with poetic lyrics at More Than Words’ open mic night.

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ALBUM REVIEW

Australian band creates mellow tunes LOOKING AHEAD: The Paper Kites, started by singers Sam Bentley and Christina Lacy, performs trance-like music with a hipster vibe.

CREATIVE COMMONS

By JESSIE MILLER JUSTICE EDITOR

Getting into my car Sunday morning, I slipped States, the new album by indie-folk band The Paper Kites, into the CD player. It was the perfect fall day—a gentle breeze, radiant sunlight and colorful leaves. As I drove through town, I enjoyed the beautiful morning and melodic music.

This is the third album for the five-person band from Melbourne, Australia. The Paper Kites have done several tours, mostly focused around Australia, but are currently on a U.S. tour and are coming to Boston in November. Though they are widely successful in Australia, the band has yet to build as extensive of a fan base in the U.S. However, their song “Featherstone” appeared in the season eight finale

of Grey’s Anatomy and, like many songs featured on the show, boosted their image immediately.

States maintains a consistent sound throughout the album, mostly harmonious and folky. The music is almost mind-numbing in a way that it quiets your mind and you can really feel the music in your soul. Sam Bentley and Christina Lacy are the two main vocalists, and it is obvious the two have extensive experience singing together. Their voices blend and complement each other perfectly, producing a soft, emotive sound with instrumentals to match.

David Powys, Josh Bentley and Sam Rasmussen make up the rest of the band, each playing several instruments. The music focuses heavily on acoustic guitar, keyboards, various percussion sounds and synthetic tunes with

a slower-paced tempo. Songs like “In Reverie” stand out for their use of bolder, louder and heavier instrumentals. Although I use the word heavy only in comparison to the softer nature of the rest of the album.

In high school, Bentley and Lacy played and wrote music together until 2009, when they informally founded The Paper Kites. After playing shows in their hometown of Melbourne, the duo was invited to perform at a local music festival, and from there, the three other members joined the group.

Their first show was a success and the quintet decided to stick together, releasing the Bloom EP in 2010.

The songs all have interesting titles—“Malleable Beings,” “Cold Kind Hand” and “Tin Lover” to name a few—but I found myself not really listening to the lyrics.

I feel like if the album lacks anything, it is the emotional connection that could have been created by lyrics because they were often hard to hear or understand. From the general content, I’m guessing the lyrics are deeply philosophical, but who knows. I enjoy the instrumentals enough, and it will definitely be good music to listen to while doing homework.

States’ trance-like, ethereal sound is reminiscent of Bon Iver, though the vocal complexity and tension of some songs (think “Skinny Love”) doesn’t compare.

The Paper Kites also kind of sound like a less “emo” version of Bright Eyes with less grave, rough qualities. Overall, the best musical comparison is English rock band The Verve, known for its chill, psychedelic music and widespread drug use. “The Drugs Don’t Work,” by

The Verve perfectly characterizes the group’s persona and marks an interesting comparison to The Paper Kites.

My two favorite songs on the album, “Tin Lover” and “A Lesson From Mr. Gray,” represent the two opposite ends of the spectrum of the album. “Tin Lover” is melodic, trance-like and soothing while “Mr. Gray” is more upbeat and has a stronger guitar part.

In its entirety, States is very experimental, diverging into different, introspective sounds that aren’t mainstream or on the top charts—but I appreciate this unique quality.

The Paper Kites is a refreshing discovery that I stumbled upon; though not pump-up exciting music, States fits into its own niche of music that is perfect for quiet moments or studying.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Tapas restaurant brings Spanish heat to Waltham

By CATHERINE ROSCH JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

CREATIVE COMMONS

HOT POTATO: Patatas Bravas are a big hit at Solea, served with vibrant spices and topped with a cool, creamy sauce.

The first thing anyone will notice when walking into Solea Restaurant and Tapas Bar in Waltham is how many people there are. That’s not to say the restaurant is uncomfortably crowded or loud; the restaurant is huge with numerous rooms and, while there is Spanish-sounding music, it is very easy to have a conversation with your dining partners. Despite the number of diners, it is quiet.

But atmosphere does not make a restaurant. Food does. And at Solea, the offerings do not disappoint. Although there are paellas, a Spanish rice dish with either seafood or meats, I suggest sticking to the tapas.

My waiter suggested getting three per person, which we did. While Solea is pricier than some other restaurants in Waltham, according to Tyler Friedman ’16 who dined there in January 2013, “portions are reasonably priced,” given the amount and quality of food. This is the sort of place that is perfect for a birthday dinner, a night out with parents, or a date.

A nice starter is the tostadas de alcachofas, or crostini with artichoke, mushroom and goat cheese. The combination of artichoke and mushroom, with a layer of goat cheese, is flavorful and rich. Unlike some places, Solea manages to get the proportions of bread to topping just right so there is never too much or too little per

bite. The crab, mango and avocado timbale works well with the crostini.

The sweetness of the mango contrasts with the saltiness of the crab and the avocado adds some nice texture and creaminess.

The seafood tapas were, for the most part, very tasty. The camarones a la plancha, or grilled shrimp with a spicy dipping sauce, were perfectly cooked. I learned the hard way that while the sauce was tangy and flavorful, the spice is a little overwhelming if eaten too quickly. The mussels, in a steamed wine and tomato sauce, were equally flavorful and had a delicious warm broth. However, the fried calamari did fall short. While quite tasty, there was nothing about the dish that stood out compared to calamari at cheaper places.

My favorite tapas were some of the vegetarian dishes. Solea’s poblano relleno, a poblano pepper stuffed with corn, zucchini, mushroom and other vegetables and breaded with almonds, was a mix of textures from the fried exterior to the warm and gooey interior. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a sweetness underneath the pepper and vegetables. Patatas bravas, spicy potatoes, were one of my favorites. They are very flavorful and have just the right amount of spice that makes you want to keep eating, even if your mouth starts to burn.

Of the meat, the beer-braised short rib was my favorite. With a sweet, almost barbeque flavor, the beef

was amazingly tender; no knife was required to cut it. The pork sausage with figs, while quite good, was the weakest point of the meal. The overly sweet fig flavor dominated what was otherwise a rather bland, although juicy, sausage.

No dinner is complete without dessert, and even though I was stuffed, I ordered both the chocolate churros and plantains in butterscotch sauce and vanilla ice cream. The plantains were rich and sweet, and the ice cream provided a nice counterpoint to the warm sauce. Any chocolate fan is sure to love the churros, a traditional cinnamon dessert that, at Solea, are served with a dipping sauce of dark chocolate. The two deserts complemented each other nicely, as the bitterness of the chocolate offset the sweetness of the churro.

For the most part, the service was pretty good. Our waiter was more than willing to answer our questions and bring us drink refills, but when asked for specific recommendations, he balked. At times, he also would only take one person’s order and then leave before the rest of the party could place their orders. Other than that, the service was polite, attentive and made our dining experience pleasant.

If you are looking for a nice Spanish restaurant that serves delicious, flavorful food in an enjoyable environment, I could not recommend Solea more.

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TUESDAY, october 22, 2013 | THE JUSTICE

Brandeis TALKS

TOPof the

ARTS ON VIEW: punk’d

CHARTS

Quote of the week

Top 10s for the week ending October 21 BOX OFFICE

“[Director of Public Safety] Ed Callahan estimated that 10 percent of the parkers on campus are unregistered, and those are the majority of people who are being ticketed,” Ricky Rosen explained.

“So part of the solution from a Union perspective is to educate people on how to apply for a pass, and the consequences of not applying for a pass.”

— (News, p. 4)

1. Gravity 3D 2. Captain Phillips 3. Carrie 4. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 5. Escape Plan 6. Prisoners 7. Enough Said 8. The Fifth Estate 9. Runner Runner 10. Insidious: Chapter 2

If you could teach any class, what would it be?

NYT BESTSELLERS

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSEPH ROBINOW

Austin Koenigstein ’17 “It would be cool to teach a film class. Not that I know anything about film but I think it would be cool.”

THROWING PIES: Two weeks ago, the boys of Brandeis Zionist Alliance staged a fundraiser where they let passersby throw pies at them for three dollars per throw to fundraise for breast cancer awareness month.

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CROSSWORD

Debora Trierweirler ’15 “I would teach a literature class. Dramatic literature.

Something like that.”

Guy Mika ’17 “I’d teach a class about Marxist analysis of films. And when I’m teaching that class I’ll say ‘so on and so on’ a lot.”

Alexios Ladikos ’17

“How alcohol affects people’s behaviors. Like we don’t already know! Learning through personal experience.

Experiential learning.”

ACROSS 1 Jerk 12 Casting leader?

15 1925 musical based on the play “My Lady Friends” 16 Stumble 17 Expanse seen from Point Barrow 18 Draw 19 Check out 20 Shatner’s “__War” 21 Snickers 23 Cole Porter and Rudy Vallée, e.g.

25 Thing to do in style 28 Hurts, in a way 29 Glare 31 Connecting line 33 Make an example of 34 Food found in rings 36 Starfleet uniform wearers 38 Twerpz and Strawz candy brand 40 Actor honored with a memorial statue in Hong Kong 43 Heavyweight 46 Bill’s first Supreme Court appointee 47 Pencil holders?

49 __ Hall 51 Hitched behind 53 1924 Darrow client 55 Value 56 Pitman users 58 DOJ part 60 Rebuffs 61 White wine apéritif 62 Reason to make a stand?

66 Subj. for an au pair 67 1993 movie co-written by Quentin Tarantino 68 Commandment word 69 Back-to-the-land movement practitioner DOWN 1 Jacks 2 Razor handle?

3 Balm 4 Where a guest may rest 5 Loop together 6 Tied together 7 Japanese mushrooms 8 Lawman Ramsey of ’70s TV 9 Haitian season 10 Rat-__ 11 Brightest star in Cygnus 12 18th-century teenage Russian emperor 13 Region of eastern Ecuador 14 Clothing store hangers 22 Peddler

Nonfiction

1. Killing Jesus—Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 2. David and Goliath—Malcolm Gladwell 3.The Reason I Jump—Naoki Higashida 4. I Am Malala—Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb 5. My Story—Elizabeth Smart with Chris Stewart

iTUNES

1. Lorde—“Royals” 2. Miley Cyrus—“Wrecking Ball” 3. Katy Perry— “Roar” 4. Avicii — “Wake Me Up” 5. Drake feat. Majid Jordon— “Hold On We’re Going Home”

BILLBOARD

24 Activate, in a way 26 Los Angelesbased ISP 27 Hall of Fame running back Campbell 30 “The West Wing” Emmy nominee 32 Fulfill 35 Shade of green 37 Songwriter Kristofferson 39 Fire 40 Common entrée at 48-Down 41 Scrawny 42 Altogether 44 Finished 45 Never 48 Rituals including the Cup of Elijah 50 Bird, for one 52 Value 54 Inebriate 57 Prefix with -tonin 59 Words of lament 63 Giant word 64 Lough __, second-largest lake on the River Shannon 65 Pasture plea

1. Miley Cyrus—Bangerz 2. Panic! At The Disco—Too Weird To Live, Too Rare to Die! 3. Drake— Nothing Was The Same 4. Pusha T—My Name Is My Name 5. Justin Timberlake—20/20 Experience (2 Of 2) 6. Lorde—Pure Heroin 7. Soundtrack—Glee: The Quarterback (EP) 8. Korn— Paradigm Shift 9. Cassadee Pope—Fame By Fame 10. Mayday Parade—Monsters In The Closet Top of the Charts information provided

by Fandango, the New York Times, Billboard.com and Apple.com.

STAFF’S TOP FIVE

Autumn Drinks

By LILAH ZOHAR JUSTICE STAFF

Solution to last issue’s crossword Crossword Copyright 2012 MCT Campus, Inc.

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

Marta Baran MA ’14 “I’m into empowerment and collaboration, so I would think it would be that or intercultural communication in building peace. I’m all about interconnectedness.”

—Compiled by Morgan Brill/the Justice

Fiction 1. Storm Front—John Sandford 2. Doctor Sleep—Stephen King 3. The Longest Ride—Nicholas Sparks 4. Gone—James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge 5. Dog Songs—Mary Oliver

Solution to last issue’s sudoku

Sudoku Copyright 2012 MCT Campus, Inc.

I love to be inventive when it comes to food and beverage choices. Fall is a great time to be creative with not only food but with drinks too.

Here are some of my favorites that can inspire you to try on your own: 1. Apple Cider—An essential fall favorite. To spice things up, add something cinnamon i.e. schnapps or simply a cinnamon stick.

Personally, I like it better cold.

2. Hot Toddy—Tea of choice with a shot of rum, honey and a ton of lemon. Great way to get rid of a cold!

3. Pumpkin Spice Latte—A Starbucks original with espresso, nutmeg and pumpkin puree.

4. Hot Peppermint Patty—A twist on hot chocolate. Add either peppermint syrup or mint liqueur.

5. Eggnog Latte—Basic latte made with the classic holiday quaff. Delicious for any time of the year!