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ADMINISTRATION

REOPENING THE ROSE

Admin salaries revealed in 990 ■ University President

Frederick Lawrence’s salary was publicly released for the first time in the University’s 2011 Form 990.

By MARISSA DITKOWSKY JUSTICE EDITOR

University President Frederick Lawrence’s total compensation for 2011 calendar year came in at $758,735, according to University tax forms. This is the first time that Lawrence’s full salary has been released since he became Brandeis’ eighth president in January 2011.

Lawrence received a base pay of $539,446 and $166,397 in other reportable compensation, and an estimated additional compensation of $52,892, according to the 2011 Form 990. The form also shows that his salary includes a housing and travel allowance.

University President Emeritus Jehuda Reinharz was also included on the 2011 form, making $591,253 in reportable income and $34,135 in es-

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Viewers admire a print of Joan Collins at the Andy Warhol exhibit during the opening ceremony of the Rose Art Museum. See page 20 for more coverage of last Tuesday’s event.

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timated additional compensation.

Reinharz made $1,536,401 in salary, benefits and other compensation in 2009, according to that year’s Form 990. According to the 2010 Chronicle of Higher Education ranking, Reinharz was the 43rd-highest paid private university president in the nation and fourth in Massachusetts that year.

Reinharz was University president from 1994 to 2011. He announced his resignation in 2009 following controversy with the Rose Art Museum and remained in the position until Lawrence took over on Jan. 1, 2011.

According to Senior Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Marianne Cwalina, a portion of the listed salary is deferred compensation that Reinharz earned while he was president. “It is common for university presidents to defer some portion of their compensation to the future,” Cwalina wrote in an email to the Justice.

Cwalina declined to comment on the specifics of Reinharz’s contract.

Reinharz is currently employed

University hosts Mass. event to address sexual violence Vacant positions filled

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STUDENT UNION

■ The Feminist Sexual Ethics

Project held an event for college administrators at Brandeis last week.

By BRITTANY JOYCE JUSTICE EDITOR

Last Tuesday, Sept. 17, Brandeis hosted “Massachusetts Steps Up: Key Sexual and Domestic Violence Issues for College Administrators” in the Hassenfeld Conference Center.

The program was aimed at educating administrators from across the state about sexual violence issues and policy on college campuses.

The event was organized by the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis, which is directed by Prof.

Bernadette Brooten (NEJS), and sponsored by the Governor’s Council to Address Sexual and Domestic Violence Higher Education Working Group and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The same event

was also held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst the following day. It focused on “how to translate policy into practice, and practice into policy,” as Peggy Barrett, director of prevention and innovation at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, said during the event.

The event called for Massachusetts college administrators to create clear-cut policies, as well as for ways to educate students on them. Michelle Bowdler ’82, senior director of health and wellness at Tufts University, said that “it is fitting we are here today at Brandeis because [sexual and domestic violence are] the social justice issue of our time.”

Barrett cited administrators’ moral and legal responsibilities to enact change on campuses, saying, “Our campuses are unsafe. They are unsafe for many of our students, and we need to take this on as our responsibility ....

Administrators can do a lot to change what is happening on our campuses.

We need to stop excusing sexual aggression, stop excusing ourselves for

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not knowing what to do; we need to take action here. We need to hold students accountable for their behavior, and we need to figure out how to do that.”

The event highlighted issues from prevention to support, and featured panels of those experienced in this area. Beth Devonshire, director of student conduct at Bridgewater State University, outlined investigation techniques, as well as a clearly defined misconduct policy, that would best allow a board to make decisions regarding misconduct.

“I encourage a student-friendly policy that encourages reporting,” said Devonshire. Though she said that instances of assault occur regardless of policy, she said that making what is covered in a school’s policy clear will improve instances of reporting. This can include granting amnesty to witnesses or creating a system in which students do not judge these types of cases, according to Devonshire.

■ Micah Lehmann ’15 was

elected to replace Sunny Aidasani ’14, who resigned from his position as treasurer.

By MARISSA DITKOWSKY JUSTICE EDITOR

Last Wednesday, elections for vacant Senate and Executive Board positions, including the newly-vacated position of treasurer, took place. The results of the election were released late Wednesday night.

Roughly 1,132 students voted in this election, according to the Union’s calculated results.

Micah Lehmann ’15 was elected

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Fact or Fiction

Men see mixed week

Lemberg to move

The history and legends of the Castle are untangled.

 The men’s soccer team beat one opponent before losing to another.

A new children’s center will be built on Old South Street.

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treasurer, with 35 percent of the vote, or 359 votes to runner-up Harry Greenberg's ’15 323. Lehmann could not be reached for comment by press time.

Naomi DePina ’16 was elected senator-at-large. The other senator-atlarge seat was filled by Daniel Schwab ’14 at the end of the spring 2013 semester. DePina wrote in an email to the Justice that she would like to become active in both diversity and club initiatives. “As a committee member I will plan events to embrace the diversity we have at Brandeis. Moreover, in the clubs and club support committee I will try my best to make it easier for clubs to get funding, and make it easier for students to start new clubs,” she wrote.

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House passes government funding bill

Medical Emergency

WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives approved a contentious $986 billion short-term measure Friday to keep the federal government running through mid-December and defund the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s legacy accomplishment.

A victory for conservative House Republicans against some party elders, the 230-189 vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government temporarily also stripped funding for the health care law and retained the automatic domestic and military budget cuts known as sequestration. It was the first move in a complicated political chess match that could lead to lead to a government shutdown Oct. 1.

Obama, speaking at an economic event at a Ford plant in Liberty, Mo., accused House Republicans of threatening to put the nation’s economy into “a tailspin” by using the continuing resolution and the pending debate on whether to raise the nation’s debt ceiling to kill off the health care law.

“They want to repeal all that, and they’re saying, ‘We’re going to hold our breath and if you don’t repeal it’—which I’ve already said I’m not going to do—‘we’re going to send the economy into default,’” the president said. “I’m not going to allow them to inflict economic pain on millions of our own people just so they can make an ideological point.”

House Democrats denounced Friday’s vote, calling it bad political theater. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the Republican-sponsored bill a “wolf in wolf’s clothing.” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Republicans had displayed a “destructive obsession” with Obamacare by linking it to the continuing resolution.

Only two Democrats—Reps. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Jim Matheson of Utah—voted for the bill.

One Republican, Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia, voted against it.

At a post-vote rally, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., declared that the pressure is now on the Democrat-controlled Senate, which is expected to take up the continuing resolution next week.

Cantor dared Senate Democrats in Republican-leaning states to join them in scuttling the health care law.

“I want to know where Sen. Pryor stands on protecting the middle class from the consequences of this horrific law,” Cantor said, referring to Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor. “How about Kay Hagan in North Carolina?

Does she understand the consequences that Obamacare is having in her state?”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., proclaimed the effort to defund Obamacare as “dead” in his chamber and called Friday’s House vote the work of “tea party anarchists.”

“Sadly, Republicans appear willing to put the nation’s economic recovery at risk to make an ideological point,” Reid said Friday.

The likelihood of the House measure surviving the Senate intact is slim. In addition to strong Democratic opposition, Republicans such as Sen. John McCain of Arizona have said that linking defunding of Obamacare to funding the federal government won’t succeed in the upper chamber. Still, Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah have vowed to push the House measure.

Cruz said Thursday, “I will do everything and anything possible to defund Obamacare,” including a Senate filibuster. That was something of a turnaround for Cruz, a champion of the effort who earlier in the week had said the measure had little chance in the Senate but was vigorously upbraided by several House Republicans for doing so.

Cruz’s latest promise gave conservative House members such as Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., hope.

“It is important for folks like myself who ran on this issue and who said they would do everything they could to stop Obamacare,” Huelskamp said. “I think it’s critical for Republicans to say, ‘Hey, this is what we’re about.

We’re following through on what we told the American people we’d do in November 2010.’ Now, it took three years to get to that point in time.”

Sept. 15—BEMCo was called to respond to a nine-year-old boy in the Mandel Quad who had been stung by a bee. The child was treated and refused further care.

Sept. 15—A female student slammed her right ring finger in a door in Usen Hall and requested BEMCo’s attention. The student refused further care.

Sept. 15—A male student in Reitman Hall reported that he had a fever. The student was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Sept. 17—A student outside on Turner Street reported that he fell in a pothole and suffered a cut to his arm. He requested treatment from BEMCo, but refused further care.

Sept. 17—An elderly woman slipped and fell outside Slosberg Music Center. University Police and BEMCo responded.

The woman was transported to

Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Sept. 18—BEMCo staff reported a student with a head injury outside Golding Health Center.

The student was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Sept. 19—A student stated that a male individual lost consciousness while rehearsing in the Spingold Theater Center.

University Police and BEMCo responded while the person refused further care.

Sept. 19—A student stated that her friend had flu-like symptoms in Renfield Hall. BEMCo responded and treated that person, who then refused further care.

Sept. 20—A student suffered a head injury in a parking lot outside the Golding Health Center.

BEMCo treated the student, who then refused further care.

Sept. 21—A student entered the police dispatch lobby in

Stoneman with an injured finger. BEMCo treated the student, who then refused further care.

Larceny

Sept. 20—A faculty member reported that her iPhone was stolen from her unlocked office in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. University Police compiled a report on the theft and advised Library and Technology Services to track the phone.

Traffic

Sept. 16—A Brandeis Facilities van outside the main entrance slipped out of gear and lost control. No injuries were reported and a tow was requested.

Sept. 17—A student reported that a car accident occurred outside of Tower Lot. University Police determined it had resulted in a flat tire on the curb. The operator of the vehicle could not be located.

n An article in News listed Jennifer Almodovar ’17 as the sole Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program senatorial candidate. She did, in fact, have a competitor, Arianna Zelley ’17. (Sept. 17, p. 7) The Justice welcomes submissions for errors that warrant correction or clarification. Email editor@ thejustice.org.

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Miscellaneous

Sept. 19—A person observed a suspicious male lying down in a spot adjacent to the Sherman Dining Hall loading dock. University Police approached the individual. He was a contractor for the University.

—compiled by Adam Rabinowitz

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n An article in News identified Hee Ju Kang ’17 with the pronoun “he” when in fact, it should have read “she.”

(Sept. 17, p. 7)

Sept. 17—University Police noticed loud noise occurring from the woods outside Sachar International Center. Officers dispersed the 75 students and put out a bonfire on-scene.

Sept. 21 – A caller stated there was loud music around the Foster Mods. A movie had been playing and students were told to quiet down.

Sept. 21—A caller stated there was loud music after quiet hours in the Foster Mods. University Police arrived and dispersed loitering students.

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PROTECT YOURSELF

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Disturbance

The University held a self-defense clinic in the Red Auerbach Arena in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center last Thursday to teach attending students how to defend themselves in real-life situations.

Newly-elected quad and Class of 2017 senators, as well as the new senator-at-large and Class of 2016 senator, attended their first Senate meeting of the year on Sunday.

New members were sworn in while previously elected members congratulated the new members and watched the swearing-in process.

Student Union Vice President Charlotte Franco ’15 made several announcements during her report.

Training for senators will take place on the annual retreat next weekend.

In addition, she said that Senate committee chairs will hopefully be selected by this weekend. The interview process started yesterday.

Non-senate committee chairs will also hopefully be selected by this weekend, Franco said during the meeting.

Under new business, the Senate passed a by-law amendment that combined the Social Justice and Diversity Committees, as well as the Outreach and Services Committees.

In addition, the amendment proposes would add a Sustainability Committee.

Executive Senator Annie Chen ’14 explained that typically diversity and social justice had a very small amount of senators, and that diversity worked with social justice for certain events.

Chen explained that although the committees would be combined, they could still maintain separate purposes and work on different projects.

All three of these changes were initially a part of one amendment.

However, several senators suggested that due to the variation in support between each section of the amendment, that the amendment be broken into three separate amendments.

All three sections passed through the Senate, effectively amending the by-laws, combining the aforementioned committees and adding a Sustainability Committee.

Chen then delivered the Executive Officer report, stating that training for how to propose Senate Money Resolutions will occur soon. She also stated that senators must set office hours as soon as possible.

—Marissa Ditkowsky

ANNOUNCEMENTS Lemberg Groundbreaking Ceremony

The parents, children and staff of the Gersh and Sarah Lemberg Children’s Center, cordially request your presence at the official groundbreaking for the construction of the New Lemberg Children’s Center.

Refreshments will be provided.

Today from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Old South Street.

aware and prepared for careers in business, consulting and finance through direct interaction and discussions with alumni and other professionals in related fields at Brandeis University’s third annual Business, Consulting & Finance Forum.

Today from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Hassenfeld Conference Center in Sherman Function Hall.

Germany Voted. Now What?

The Syrian Catastrophe

Join political scientist Carina Schmitt from the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University for a presentation and discussion about the outcomes of the recent elections in Germany and their implications for the future.

Please RSVP to cgees@brandeis.edu in order to attend this event, as space is limited.

Today from noon to 2 p.m. in the Faculty Club Lounge.

Join us for a lively and engaging discussion with Frederic Hof of the Atlantic Council, Mona Yacoubian of the Stimson Center, Joseph Bahout of Sciences Po, and Profs. Eva Bellin (POL) and Shai Feldman (POL) of the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Middle Eastern appetizers will be served. Free and open to the Public.

Tomorrow from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall in the Goldfarb Library.

Business, Consulting and Finance Forum

Natick Day Away

Interested in business-related careers but not sure where to start? Become more

Get off campus for an afternoon to shop and dine at New England’s largest mall! $5

refundable deposit required at Brandeis Tickets box office . Bus leaves from the Theater Parking Lot at 1 p.m.

Thursday from 1 to 5 p.m.

The Axes of Revolution

This event will feature Doris L. Garraway (Northwestern University), Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire) and Lynn A. Hunt (University of California, Los Angeles). This symposium is part of the yearlong seminar “Rethinking the Age of Revolution: Rights, Representation, and the Global Imaginary,” sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at Brandeis University.

Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Mandel Center for the Humanities.

Murder Mystery Event

In a village filled with backstabbers and buccaneers, there is little reward for honesty and a high price to pay for deceit.

Friday from 8 to 11 p.m. in the Irving and Edyth Usen Castle Commons.

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Lemberg Center will move into a new home ■ The Children’s Center will

move into a 6,000 square foot, 2.5 million dollar facility early next year.

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The Lemberg Children’s Center, currently located at Lemberg Hall next to the Brown Social Science Center, will move to a new building in late winter or early spring, according to Howard Baker, executive director of the center. The new center will be on a large area of land between Old South Street and South Street, facing Gordon Field.

Today, there will be a groundbreaking ceremony at the construction area. Baker said that University President Frederick Lawrence will open the ceremony.

Baker said in an interview with the Justice that he expects the mayor of Waltham, Jeannette McCarthy, to attend. Baker also said he expects Massachusetts State Sen. Mike Barrett and two state representatives for Waltham, John Lawn and Tom Stanley, to attend.

About 30 Lemberg students wearing hard hats and shovels in hand will help the honored guests make the first cuts into the soil over which the new center will stand.

The ceremony will also feature songs by the children and speeches

about the opening.

According to Baker, the building itself will be 6,000 square feet and is estimated to cost about 2.5 million dollars. The project is to be funded largely by the childcare tuition costs as enrollment increases. Once Lemberg moves, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies will move into Lemberg Hall.

The new building will provide various services that Lemberg Hall has been unable to host. It will have two stories and will be fully handicap accessible, according to Baker.

The interior will hold six classrooms instead of the two that are currently in Lemberg Hall, as well as three smaller rooms for meetings and activities. The building will also have observation windows that look into the classrooms and a research lab.

Baker said that the research lab was “an original feature of [the older] facility, which we lost a long time ago because we needed space for a kitchen.”

The observation windows are intended for “anyone who wants to observe what the teachers are doing or what the children are doing in the classrooms,” he said.

Baker also envisioned expansion of the building’s functions. He discussed using the new building as an evening and weekend children’s activity center for outside events.

“I was thinking it would be a great place for … classes in learning how

to play various musical instruments,” as well as art, painting, dance and other classes taught by University students.

According to Baker, Lemberg sent the first proposal for the construction of a new building as early as 1980. “I have felt for a long time that we should have toddlers and young kids and that we should expand in that direction,” said Baker.

According to Baker, long waiting lists to get into Lemberg are evidence of need in the community for expansion in toddler care.

“It has been common for people to … apply to Lemberg for their two-year-old when the child hasn’t even been born,” added Baker.

Lemberg’s maximum group size of toddlers, which had already been limited by the small size of classrooms, was reduced from nine to six. This change impacted Lemberg’s ability to provide care, and added to the need for remodeling, according to Baker.

“We found that the renovations to Lemberg Hall would be so costly that … we decided the best thing to do would be to build a new building from scratch,” said Baker. He added that support from the administration was instrumental to the project as well, particularly from Mark Collins, the vice president of administration, and Provost Steve Goldstein ’78, who helped plan funding and arranged faculty committees to review the center.

Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel surprised the 24-hour musical audience when he made a guest appearance. See page 19 for full coverage on Beauty and the Beast: Tale as Old as Torah.

BRIEF Handbook, assault policy revised This year’s edition of the Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook contains revisions to the special examiner’s process and other minor additions to various sections of the handbook.

Last Friday, Dean of Students Jamele Adams released the changes in an email to the Brandeis community.

The special examiner’s process, which is the University’s procedure to address allegations of sexual misconduct or harassment, was first included in the 2012 to 2013 iteration of the Rights and Responsibilities handbook.

Among the changes to the process in the 2013 to 2014 handbook is a new panel to be composed of three administrators and/

or faculty members who will receive the special examiner’s report and make a recommendation about the outcome of a case.

The recommendation will then be sent to a senior student affairs officer or designee for a final decision. Previously, the dean of student life would make a final decision without any outside recommendations.

Other changes to the special examiner’s process include the fact that “the University Appeals Board composition will include only the faculty members of that pool, not student members” and “an Advisor may not also serve as a witness,” as stated in Adams’ email.

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A NEW CENTER: Sketches of the new Lemberg Children’s Center, to be built on Old South Street, have already been completed.

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SALARIES: Top executives net $4.41 million CONTINUED FROM 1 by the University as the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, where he is responsible for leading the institute’s programs and research direction. Reinharz also works closely with Lawrence, the Board of Trustees and other senior administrators as president emeritus, Cwalina explained.

The current national trend shows university president salaries are on the rise. According to Tufts University’s 2011 Form 990, former president Lawrence Bacow received about $793,715 in total compensation for that year. Bacow was replaced by Anthony Monaco in 2011, but the forms that would indicate Monaco’s full salary have yet to be released.

Boston University President Robert Brown received $1,381,264 in total compensation for the 2011 calendar year, according to Boston University’s 2011 Form 990. Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust received $875,331 in compensation that same year, according to the university’s 2011 form 990.

President John Sexton of New York University, which now is ranked number 32 in the nation along with Brandeis and the College of William and Mary by U.S. News & World Report, received $1,476,625 in total compensation for 2011, according to the university’s 2011 Form 990.

The Chronicle of Higher Education executive compensation rankings for 2011 have yet to be released.

However, Lawrence would be placed at about 69 in the nation in comparison with other presidents’ salaries on the 2010 rankings.

Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff David Bunis’ reportable income was listed on the Brandeis Form 990 as $467,263, with an additional estimated compensation of $3,824.

Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel’s salary is unlisted on the Form 990. According to Cwalina, this is because he “did not receive sufficient compensation in 2011 to be considered a key employee for IRS reporting purposes,” as he officially started working at Brandeis on Sept. 1, 2011.

However, Cwalina did explain that neither Flagel nor Lawrence earn additional compensation for the courses that they teach.

According to Cwalina, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Susan Birren and former Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Michaele Whelan are not included on the Form 990 because they report to Provost Steve Goldstein ’78 and, therefore, “are not considered key employees or officers under IRS reporting guidelines.”

In total, the University spent $4,414,815 on compensation of current officers, directors, trustees and key employees, according to the 2011 Form 990.

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AN EVENT TO EDUCATE: A session to educate college adminisrators from across the state on sexual assault was held at Brandeis.

CONFERENCE: Brooten helps organize informative event CONTINUED FROM 1 In addition to focusing on how to make the best policy, the event also focused on prevention, particularly in changing the attitudes present on campuses.

Christopher Gilbert, a prevention specialist in the Office of Sexual Assault and Prevention at Harvard University and organizer of the student group Harvard Men Against Rape, said getting men involved was one way to change culture on campus. He said that it is key to approach “gender violence as a men’s issue, not to view men on your campus as hostile offenders, because 95 percent are not.”

“Be explicit that they’re not the problem, but that the guys who are the problem use their silence or their apathy to perpetrate,” said Gilbert.

“We need to change ‘I’m not doing anything wrong, that’s how I’m going to stop rape on my campus,’ to ‘what am I going to do from here?’”

As part of a Women’s and Gender Studies course titled “When Violence Hits Home: Internship in Domestic Violence,” students Samantha Daniels ’16 and Evelyn Milford ’16 assisted at the event as part of their internships within the Department of Public Health.

Milford said in an interview with the Justice that the event attracted

many people from the area, not just Brandeis administration. “It’s focused on a lot of outside people, like from the state department, crisis centers and other universities,” she said. Milford also noted that there were more men at the event than she expected to see.

Daniels said in an interview with the Justice that she hopes in light of the event, “the responsibility to educate about and prevent sexual assault falls less on students, like [Students Talking About Relationships] … and more on administration.”

She said she also hopes for the creation of a men’s involvement group and more resources for survivors on campus.

ELECTIONS: New senators prepared with ideas, but seek student input CONTINUED FROM 1 Kathy Nguyen ’16 won the Class of 2016 senator seat, which was originally won by Andrew Chang in the spring 2013 elections. However, Chang transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after the elections occurred.

Nguyen could not be reached for comment by press time.

Erica Barnett and David Heaton won the race for Class of 2017 senator out of the seven candidates. Barnett received the most votes at 110, while Heaton received the second-highest number of votes at 107. Each of the candidates received about 29 percent of the vote.

Barnett said that she plans to start talking to students to find out what she should work on as a member of the Senate. “I want to start focusing on developing that community aspect of my class and promoting interaction,” she said in an interview with the Justice.

She said that she has no specific plans as of now, but wants to talk to members of her class to address concerns as well as create events to increase communication.

Heaton could not be reached for comment by press time.

The position of racial minority senator was filled by Wei Qian ’17, who took 65 percent of the vote. Qian was the sole declared candidate.

Qian said that he wants to start a YouTube talk show to get students from different backgrounds to interact and understand each other. “People from different races and cultural backgrounds don’t know each other that

well … and I hope to bring people of different cultures together to talk,” he said in an interview with the Justice.

Andrew Savage ’16 filled the East Quad senator position. Savage could not be reached by press time.

Henry Snow ’17 won the Massell Quad Senate seat.

Snow wrote in an email to the Justice that he is excited to start receiving feedback from other students and members of his quad. “[W]hile I was a candidate I wished to keep a relatively simple, easy-to-understand platform, and thus limited my ideas to a select few, but now that I actually have the job I am even more interested in seeking out every possible idea and issue that needs addressing,” wrote Snow.

Brian Hough ’17 won North Quad senator. He could not be reached by press time.

Eden Zik ’16 was elected as Rosenthal Quad senator. Zik said in an interview with the Justice that he wants to add a weight and cardio room to Rosenthal Quad that more resembles the new fitness room in North Quad.

In addition, he said he wants to hold a barbecue for the quad.

Ellen Parker ’16 was elected Castle senator and Michael Stein ’14 was elected as Charles River Apartments/567 senator. They could not be reached by press time.

Ethan Levy ’15 was elected as Ridgewood Quad senator.

Levy said that he first wants to talk to constituents to get a better idea of what they want to see. “I definitely know what to expect in terms of going to the meetings, and what I can and

cannot get done. I think I was a little too ambitious last year,” he said of his past experience in an interview with the Justice.

Wonhee Choi ’15 was elected as Ziv Quad senator. Choi wrote in an email to the Justice that he plans to “start integrating [himself] into a couple committees and beginning to collaborate with the Ridgewood quad senator to get some events going between our two quads.”

Haley Orlofsky ’14 was elected as Foster Mods senator. She could not be reached by press time.

Positions remain open for Village senator, off-campus senator and associate justice. Abstain received the most votes for all three of these positions.

The winner for Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program senator could not be concluded due to a technical error. “[F]or some reason, likely a tech glitch, the ballot did not send,” wrote Union Secretary Sneha Walia ’15 in an email to the Justice. “I wasn’t told about this until after 5 p.m. and, because tech glitches were being worked out collaboratively between me and a woman from the Registrar, I was unable to fix it because the Registrar closes at 5 [p.m.].”

A special election will be held on Oct. 2 to determine who will fill this position. According to Walia, no additional candidates will be allowed to run. Only Jennifer Almodovar ’17 and Arianna Zelley ’17 will be on the ballot.

—Tate Herbert, Sam Mintz and Jake Silverman contributed reporting

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In 1890, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced polygamy.

Disney cartoon animal Donald Duck’s middle name is ‘Fauntleroy’.

Feeling like a Phony Science scholars spoke about the imposter syndrome phenomenon

By ADITI SHAH JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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IDENTITY ILLNESS: Sue Lindquist discusses feeling like an imposter for much of her scientific career.

Do you feel insecure because you feel less experienced or knowledgeable than your peers? Even for some wildly talented and successful people, feelings of worthlessness and incompetence follow them throughout their careers.

Such feelings are symptoms of a psychological phenomenon known as “imposter syndrome,” a condition in which people have a difficult time recognizing their achievements. Although it is currently not considered a psychological disorder or listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, more research is being conducted on it and treatment is available in the form of therapy.

On Monday, Sept. 16, the Women in Science Initiative at Brandeis held an event entitled “Imposter Syndrome Panel.”

The event was originally scheduled to be held in the Gerstenzang Science Library but was moved to a neighboring classroom due to the very high volume of attendees.

More than 40 people attended the event. The speakers at the event included Sue Lindquist, Ph.D., of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the National Medal of Science, and Prof. Judith Herzfeld (CHEM), Prof. Gabriella Sciolla (PHYS) and Prof.

Daniel Ruberman (MATH).

The panel consisted of the professors sharing instances their lives when they felt like “imposters” and advising students on how to overcome moments of insecurity that can be experienced by graduates and undergraduates of all disciplines, though given their backgrounds much of their advice was geared toward students in the sciences.

Lindquist spoke first and shared her anxieties as a graduate student, fearful she did not belong among her more intelligent peers. “Applying to schools like Harvard University, MIT University and Stanford University for graduate school scared the Jesus out of me,” she said.

Eventually, Lindquist rose above her fears. “If you have a passion for what you’re doing, just keep on going and eventually you will realize that you are not an imposter,” she said.

Sciolla also shared her experiences with imposter syndrome on her path to success. Sciolla, who studied at the University of Turin in Italy, spoke more specifically about the challenges that she faced as she was studying to be a physicist, such as the difficulties she faced because she was not a native English speaker.

Sciolla also explained how insecurity carries on after being a student, by mentioning that competition does not fade once the GPA disappears and that measuring one’s comparative success only becomes more difficult.

In spite of the fact that she still encounters insecurity

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on occasion, she has changed her mind set. “Nobody asks you to do something that you are not ready for,” she said.

Next to speak was Herzfeld, who expressed gratitude for receiving a college education at Barnard College, an institution that encouraged women to succeed in science.

As Herzfeld shared her story, she described the advice she received from her mother when she was struggling. “You can’t expect more than the best from yourself and no one else can either,” she said.

Ruberman continued the panel discussion by sharing his experience with imposter syndrome when he began graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He expressed how nervous he felt while discussing his first math test with his peers, who seemed much more confident with their performance.

Ruberman also said “throughout high school and college, [he] realized that [he] was actually very lazy.”

He further explained that because he did not want his peers to find out that he was lazy, he “decided to work hard to hide [his] laziness.” This sparked laughter among the audience.

After this portion of the event, the panelists answered questions from the audience. One question that arose was from a student who asked how he could know if he was in the right field.

Sciolla encouraged students to ask their professors whether the professors can imagine the student in that field, with which Lindquist disagreed, claiming that professors may not always give the most accurate answers to such questions.

Another student asked for advice on how to get past the obstacles they may face while studying. The panelists said that mistakes will always occur, but what is most important is to learn from one’s mistakes so that they are not repeated. “It is good to be ambitious, but you should not hold unrealistic expectations for yourself,” Ruberman said.

The speakers also discussed the benefits of collaboration and shared how they were often afraid of asking questions when they were in class, which the panelists said was a common fear among students. “I always tell my students that you can email me your question if you are too shy to ask in class and then I post the question without the name for everyone to see,” Sciolla said.

Brittney Gardner (GRAD) a student studying Neuroscience, attended the event. “It was really good to hear professors share their experiences and to know that they also had a hard time to be successful. It was nice to hear them be honest and open,” she said.

Attendee Sara Gelles-Watnick ’17 said that “It enlightened me as to what the future might bring if I continue to pursue science. “In advanced math class with upperclassmen, [I related with] the words of Lindquist since I often feel worried to speak up. I would like to see more symposiums like this in the future and more Brandeis professors in this type of setting,” she said.

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PROFESSOR PLIGHT: Profs. Judith Herzfeld (CHEM) (left) and Gabriella Sciolla (PHYS) (right) became confident in their scientific niches.

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BRANDEIS BEGINNINGS: The Castle was constructed over a period of 12 years to be the flagstone structure of Middlesex University.

Usen Castle

This iconic campus structure is constantly being reinvented

By CASEY PEARLMAN JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Irving and Edyth Usen Castle is one of the most well-known buildings on campus.

Whether or not you’ve actually visited the Castle, you have probably heard rumors of its stairs that lead to nowhere, creaks and cracks on the floor, and the pie-shaped rooms.

The legend, often told on prospective student tours, begins with John Hall Smith, the quirky founder of the Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery, and a visit to Scotland.

According to the tale, Smith came across a castle while in Scotland and decided he wanted to recreate the castle on the campus of his school. Smith approached the owners of the castle for blueprints, but they refused to give them to him because the castle was a family heirloom. Smith hired artists to draw the outside of the castle, with the intention of reconstructing it from the outside in. Once he approved the drawings the artists made, Smith hired architects to build the castle according to the pictures he gave them. The tour guide talking points go on to assert that the “architectural quirks” are a result of its construction based on images of the outside and not actual floor plans.

This legend, told on tour after tour, is not quite accurate, however. It blends history and myths to created a kind of “mythistory.”

Middlesex University was an outgrowth of the smaller Mid-

dlesex College, which was absorbed into the larger university in 1914. Up until the late 1920’s, it shared a campus with University of Massachusetts. When the shared campus got too crowded for both universities, John Hall Smith purchased 100 acres of land for the college in 1928. This land would eventually become the campus of Brandeis University.

An ambitious man, Smith “wanted to build a structure with a distinct architectural style that would assert a strong presence for the university at its new location,” according to a 1998 senior thesis, “Unlocking Doors to the Past and the Future: An Architectural and Social Exploration of the Irving and Edyth Usen Castle”, written by Amy Debra Finstein ’98.

Contrary to the myth told on tours, he did not choose one castle to replicate.

Instead, the castle combines a plethora of features from different buildings and castles throughout England and Ireland. Considering Smith was not a trained architect, his construction of the castle was extraordinary.

Historical records say little about the Castle as being devised from the outside in, but its construction is unique nonetheless. Instead of using stone-upon-stone construction as the exterior suggests, the building is actually rein-

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THROUGH THE AGES: Today, the Castle is used as housing for sophomore students. In past decades, it has been used for everything from science laboratories to lecture halls, an infirmary and a gymnasium.

forced with poured concrete.

The castle was completed over a period of 12 years, due to financial crises that impeded the building from being completed all at once.

The oddly shaped rooms probably came about through renovations done over the years since Brandeis acquired it. During the years of World War II, the university suffered from severe financial crises and in the 1944-1945 school year, the university was forced to discontinue most of its courses. Middlesex University had its last graduating class in 1947, and Brandeis was founded in 1948.

As it is used today, the Castle houses sophomores in a variety of different living arrangements that range from singles to suites.

However, when John Hall Smith first had the Castle built on his campus, it was used for many things. Among its uses were science lecture halls, laboratories, libraries, and administrative offices.

However, when Brandeis acquired the campus, most of it needed renovations, including the Castle. In fact, founding Brandeis president Abraham Sachar claimed the Castle was an unacceptable location for labs due to its poor ventilation. As a result, it instead was home to an infirmary, dining hall, and at one point even a gymnasium.

Brandeis has made many renovations to the building in the past few decades. They’ve plastered over what were originally intricate ceilings, replaced ornate wooden

doors and arches with metal panels, and painted the walls.

Josh Spiro ’13 worked in the archives in the library and grew interested in how the Castle became what it is today. From his perspective, the way the castle is today is a result of these renovations. Spiro speculated that, “the complete Castle in the ’40s, pre Brandeis, probably made perfect architectural sense. Everything connected inside and there were probably no stairs to nowhere or other bizarre features,” he said.

The admissions office creates the script the tour guides use when giving their tours.

Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel addressed in an email to the Justice the frustration of never being able to know the whole story of how the Castle came to be with 100% certainty. “By definition, a myth is not incorrect. To my knowledge what is suggested to be minor discrepancies in the story seem to be either honest errors or misunderstanding, or they are, potentially, correct,” he wrote.

Flagel also stated that “I was not aware [the castle myth] was an issue.”

Despite the historically questionable story told on admissions tours, students enjoy living in the Castle, which, no matter how it was built, remains Brandeis’ most iconic piece of architecture. Max Shpilman ’16 said that “choosing the Castle for housing was a superb choice.”

— Jaime Kaiser contributed reporting.

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Sexual assualt policies impress Last Tuesday, Brandeis hosted a statesponsored program aimed at educating college administrators about sexual violence issues and policy on college campuses. The event brought together administrators from Massachusetts universities and members of other relevant organizations.

This editorial board commends the University for taking on a leading role in encouraging discourse on the important subject of sexual assault—one that has come up repeatedly over the last few years both on our campus and at many other colleges across the country.

In particular, we thank Prof. Bernadette Brooten (NEJS) for her hard work as director of the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project, which organized the event. Brooten has long been a tireless advocate for the prevention of sexual assault, both on campus and off, and deserves recognition.

Last week, directly addressing sexual assault on a level more immediately relevant to the student body, the University announced changes to the special examiner’s process as part of the annual revision of the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook.

The special examiner’s process was instituted last year as a way to separate sexual assault proceedings from the usual Student Conduct Board process that governs rule violations by students.

While this board agrees with the majority of these common-sense changes, one in particular deserves closer attention.

The revision states: “A group of three University administrators and/or faculty, appointed by the [Senior Student Affairs Officer] or designee … will receive the Special Examiner’s report (when the Accused is found responsible for one or more charges) and make a recommendation to the SSAO/D as to the outcome(s) for the

Continue to reevaluate Accused during the Deliberations Phase.”

The panel should not be appointed by the senior student affairs officer, the same person that will eventually make a decision based on the recommendation of said panel, as is currently mandated in the handbook. This has the potential to lead to conflicts of interest and bias on the panel.

Instead, the panel should be convened by a separate process and remain unattached to the senior student affairs officer. Additionally, there should be the possibility of recusal for appointed panelists who may be unable to make an unbiased decision.

We feel that the added layer of a panel of three individuals is an improvement over the previous system, where the special examiner reported directly to the dean of student life. However, it is imperative to continually ensure that every effort is taken to form an independent and unbiased panel.

The other important changes are positive, including the rule that an advisor in the process cannot also be a witness; a provision that parties may change their initial course of action at any time during the process; and allowing only faculty members to serve on the University Appeals Board if someone appeals a special examiner’s process.

All of these changes, while small, will make the process more fair and thorough.

Despite our concerns about the new panel setup, we commend the University for continuing to evaluate and update the Special Examiner’s Process.

A process as delicate, yet important as this needs continued reexamination. We hope that the University continues to assess its practices in relation to sexual assault.

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Before the start of the 2013 to 2014 season, the National Football League made headlines by settling a lawsuit with over 4,500 of its former players for $765 million, putting an end to the players’ lawsuit accusing the league of hiding the dangers of concussions. New research surrounding traumatic brain injury is the biggest threat to the future of America’s most popular sport, as adults and children alike are increasingly dissuaded from playing. How can football ensure the safety of its players at all levels while still maintaining the integrity of the game?

Tom Rand The NFL and football leagues at all levels have incorporated rules recently to try to reduce the potential for concussions. In reality, however, it is a physical game and the risk always exists. The significance of this lawsuit and recent medical research is that now the information about the dangers and long-term effects of concussions is out there. People can now make informed decisions about whether or not to play (or whether or not to allow their children to play).

Tom Rand is the associate director of Brandeis Athletics.

Aaron Schluger ’14 It does not seem surprising that repeated blows to the head could cause some form of damage to the brain. Yet we are far upfield when it comes to understanding the potentially harmful effects of football. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there may be considerable danger to the brain from playing football. There is a need for more systematic study on the danger of repeated high intensity collisions in the sport. First, rigorous research regarding the intellectual functioning and neurological status of football players must be conducted at all ages and levels of competition to gain a clear picture of the spectrum of potential dangers to athletes in high school, college and professional leagues. Second, based on the results of these studies, amendments to official rules of play and drastic improvements in helmet design and other protective equipment should follow to limit risks that may lead to devastating conditions in older age. Football is enormously popular in America and certainly, this new knowledge could threaten the future of the game and of those benefitting from the big business of football.

However, the integrity of the game is grounded in the safety of its players.

Buildings improved efficiently The Lemberg Children’s Center has been in an unusual situation for the past several years: a top-ranked day care housed in a facility that, due to recent code changes, had potential to violate state building codes. Similarly, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, a renowned research center on campus with several prominent faculty members, graduate students and fellows, has been relatively hidden in a section of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, an institution with which they have no concrete affiliation. It is a welcome change, then, to see that the Lemberg Children’s Center will be moving into a brand-new facility off campus on South Street and that the Crown Center will, after renovations, move into the former Lemberg building.

The new facility of the Lemberg Children’s Center will be up-to-date with state building codes and also provide six classrooms for the center, a notable improvement from the two in the previous facility. This board endorses the move, for the additional space will allow for an increase in daycare enrollment and, ultimately, the resulting tuition will help pay for the construction costs.

Currently, Lemberg has a very long waiting list for new students, making this construction all the more beneficial for the Center’s students. The Lemberg Center is a known amenity of Brandeis,

Little cost to University which is a potential attraction to faculty and we are pleased to see that the University has given proper attention to this valuable institution.

The Crown Center, which has lacked a permanent home since its founding, will now have its own facility.

This is especially important given the recent donation to the Center from the Crown family for three endowed faculty chairs, one of which has already been awarded to Prof. Naghmeh Sohrabi (HIST). The increased space will allow the Crown Center to make additional faculty hires without worrying about space, supplementing the institution’s increasingly prominent research.

This initiative will effectively address two needs in just one focused project; it provides a sorely needed new building for the Lemberg Children’s Center and creates a new facility for the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. This editorial board is pleased to see that the University is carefully reallocating its physical space—at minimum cost to the University. Both the Crown Center and the Lemberg Children’s Center make substantial contributions to Brandeis and, ultimately, they should be housed in appropriate facilities to reflect the importance of those contributions.

Aaron Schluger ‘14 is president of the Brandeis Pre-Health Society.

Jeffrey Boxer ’13 If there were an easy answer to that question, the NFL wouldn’t be in the mess that it is in right now. On the one hand, our understanding of concussions has improved tremendously, as has the equipment used to protect against them. Fans no longer applaud bone-jarring hits—those plays now draw penalties and fines. In many ways, football is moving in the right direction. Unfortunately, these are all Band-Aids, not solutions. Today’s players are much stronger and faster than yesteryear’s and that leads to harder collisions and more opportunities for injury. Some have suggested widening the field of play so that players are more spaced out. Others have argued that contact should be reduced even further. Whatever happens, the NFL, NCAA and youth leagues across the country are going to have a difficult time maintaining the integrity of the sport while simultaneously ensuring the safety of its participants.

Jeffrey Boxer ’13 is the marketing and promotions coordinator for Brandeis Athletics and a former editor of the Justice.

Max Bernstein ’15 I feel like it’s common sense, but it is extremely dangerous to receive blunt force trauma to the head. The brain is an absolutely amazing organ, but it’s fragile and needs to be protected. Football is a dangerous sport in this regard, but you can’t get rid of it. It’s too American, like apple pie and beer.

What would we do as American citizens if we couldn’t sit on our couches watching people exercise when we don’t want to? In truth, the best way to protect the integrity of the game and the players simultaneously is to improve the protective capabilities of the helmets and reduce the amount of possibly dangerous contact during training so the only time there is significant contact is during games. If practices limited the amount of potentially dangerous tackles, the players would have a better chance of avoiding brain injury while still entertaining us during televised games.

Max Bernstein ’15 is a research assistant for Prof. Don Katz (PSYC), a Neuroscience and Psychology double major, and a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi.

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READER COMMENTARY U.S. cannot remain neutral in Syria To the Editor: Nelson Gilliat ’14 paints a deceptively simple picture of the separation of powers. He suggest a bright line between the executive and legislative branches’ authority to engage in military intervention. No such line exists. Yes, the Congress is vested with the authority to declare war, but the president is named commander in chief. So the question actually becomes how we define war. Here, again, it is not so clear.

Surly Mr. Gilliat would not consider a single bullet fired by a service member an act of war?

In reality, the president’s authority to order military intervention, such as President [Bill] Clinton’s mission in Kosovo, is very much an open question, to my knowledge yet to be interpreted by the Supreme Court.

Neutrality by the world’s only superpower is anything but neutral—something the parents of the over 400 children that Bashar al- Assad gassed to death would likely attest to, assuming they survived. It is wrong to draw a moral equivalency between the Assad regime and the opposition. There are extremist elements in the opposition. We should actively strengthen the secular, moderate parties against them as former Sec. [Hilary] Clinton and Former CIA Directors [David] Patreous and [Leon] Panetta all advised. On the other hand, the regime they are opposing uses WMDs (real, not imagined) against it’s own civilians, has slaughtered over 100,000 people, and displaced millions. I see no equivalence.

Finally, civil wars rarely remain civil. As United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power thoroughly documented in her Pulitzer Prize winning book, A Problem From Hell, a dictator who is willing to visit atrocities on his or her own people usually ends up lashing out beyond their borders, which in Syria’s case are shared with American allies. It’s reasonable to suspect that we may later eventually be drawn in anyway, at a much higher cost.

—Ethan Kaminsky ’14

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Proper diversity is based on ideas, not race Aaron

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Diversity, by its nature, is often found at the center of many hot-button issues. Recent Supreme Court cases, criminal controversies, and political posturing have boldly redrawn racial dividing lines between people, forcing diversityrelated issues to the forefront yet again. This is completely bewildering to those of us who happily accept racial differences among people, and simply want to move on to more civilized topics.

We should always fight back against intolerance here at Brandeis, where we are not only tolerant of differences, but also hold diversity itself as a value. It is a worthy pillar of our community and we ought to do it justice. In order to do so properly, however, we must address the meaning of diversity and how to properly achieve it as a value.

There are two commonly accepted approaches to diversity: the race-based approach and the character-based approach. A purely race-based approach strives for a community of people who represent the full spectrum of skin colors, whilst a purely character-based approach would seek out a community of people with the widest possible array of different ideas and outlooks.

Most institutions in the United States, including Brandeis University, favor a hybrid approach, but the dominant aspect of the mixture is undoubtedly the race-based approach.

The prevalent concept of a diverse workplace or community is based on race—people tend to envision diversity as a full rainbow of skin tones.

This is a false view that corrupts the true nature of diversity. A diverse community is one with many different kinds of people—but people

differ most by their character, not by their race.

What makes any given person different from others is the sum of the actions they take and the values they choose, not the pigment in his or her skin. Diversity does not come from a wide variety of appearances, but rather from a multiplicity of ideas and traditions that shape the different ways individuals in a group can approach the world.

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At Brandeis, we share the common goal of being among a student body of diverse thinkers.

Often times, skin pigment becomes a factor for innocent, well-intentioned reasons. Diversity-seekers who intend to create a vibrant community regularly get trapped into pitfalls that result from using skin color as a shortcut to diversity. This is because people from different cultures tend to approach the world differently, and there are many cultures that coincide with racial groups. It is crucial to note when a culture and a race coincide, the color of peoples’ skin is not the cause of their unique approach to life, but rather a mere side variable.

In other cases, tactics encouraging racial diversity are adopted in order to combat past or present racial discrimination. While this action is laudably well-intended, it is misguided.

Diversity-seekers understand that it is evil to discriminate against a human being’s character according to the color of his or her skin. To fight this, they must adopt the inverse of that view, in the hopes of countering it out of existence: they choose to positively evaluate people who have been discriminated against based on skin color.

But, by doing so, they cede the high ground to racists. Both approaches—the discriminatory and the anti-discriminatory—stem from the same corrupt premise: the idea that a human being’s character can be evaluated strictly through the color of his or her skin. This contradicts and undercuts the moral base of the diversity-seeker’s position.

We can—and must—do better. Here at Brandeis, we share the common goal of being among a student body of diverse thinkers. While we understand this implicitly, we sometimes approach our goal with the wrong means. No reasonable person can consider the notion of skin color as a character attribute to be anything except absurd, if not outright evil. We ought to accept this premise explicitly, and put it into practice.

By having checkboxes on our applications that ask prospective students to indicate the color of their skin, we are fighting against our own mission to achieve a diverse campus. A person’s race is not a character consideration, nor is it an academic consideration. This practice must be eliminated.

When our Student Union has a racial minority senator, it implies that none of its other senators are capable of representing racial minorities.

This goes against everything that Brandeis University embodies and contradicts the attitude our student body regularly practices toward racial majorities and minorities, which is: “We are all Brandeisians, and differences in skin are only skin-deep.” This position is redundant, and its existence is an insult to our already diverse, tolerant and inclusive community.

Our approach to diversity cannot be based on fighting racists. We should counter hatred and division in the same way we countered the Westboro Baptist Church in 2011—by showing that people are united by common values and ideas.

This crucial distinction will allow us to push the idea of diversity out of its current trappings, and toward an approach that truly embraces each individual’s unique qualities.

Reaction to Boston bombing proves morality to be subjective

By KAHLIL OPPENHEIMER JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The bomb squad trucks sped, sirens blaring, through our innocuous, earthy-crunchy streets, and most of us could think only one thought—kill him. Last April, bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring an estimated 264 others.

The alleged bombers, Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, went to the same high school as me.

Shortly after the bombings, a police officer was killed 50 feet from where I had eaten a burrito the day before. The car chase that followed was through the streets I grew up on; I heard the explosions of the make-shift bombs thrown during the pursuit as I biked home that night. A picture surfaced on my Facebook newsfeed of a friend of mine from school surrounded by 20 FBI officers, their guns pointed at him—he was Dzhokar’s neighbor. About halfway through the chase, Tamerlan was killed, but Dzhokar got away, and the chase continued. Kill him. All of us were scared in liberal Cambridge.

All of us who picketed the U.S.’s torture of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib, the infamous American war prison, just a couple of years ago were now glued to the TV and online news feed. We huddled in living rooms and neighbors’ houses for hours on end, yelping with excitement every time we thought the police might have killed Dzhokar. We were peace-loving when the war was overseas, but not when it was on our streets. When Dzhokar was finally detained (alive, but with gunshot wounds on his head, neck and hands) everyone cheered; mission accomplished, we got him. We celebrated our police’s accuracy in killing Tamerlan early on, and some of us even celebrated Dzhokar being alive because we thought death was too quick and easy. Our non-violent values were tried and proved to be conditional. Our disgust with the national security budget quickly turned into appreciation when hundreds of police and FBI officers swarmed our streets. Our liberal values proved to be privileged, existing only because we had never had to be afraid before.

Right, wrong, moral, immoral, secure, paranoid—the distinctions are entirely conditional.

Because I grew up in a place where I was never afraid that a bomb would go off on a bus or train,

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I would have cried “dictator” and “imperialist” if I ever had to walk through a metal detector in the subway station. But what if buses and trains were being blown up? Would I still think that it was an infringement on my privacy or liberties? Are we capable of unconditional feelings?

In the infamous Stanford University prison experiment from 1970, 24 male students were selected to participate in a mock-prison scenario. They were each randomly assigned the role of either prisoner or guard. The experiment spiraled out of control within days; prisoners were subjected to psychological torture, among other things, and the experiment had to be shut down preemptively. Everyday people turned into monstrous

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jail guards, no better than those at Abu Ghraib.

In Cambridge, we looked at Abu Ghraib and said that our soldiers were immoral. What do we say when we look at ourselves?

The people selected for the Stanford prison experiment (though it was a small sample) were just college students, no different from most of us. Are we all monsters because we’re capable of the same things? How much of ourselves is inherently “bad” and how much is inherently “good”?

How much is just human, susceptible to what’s going on around us? Would we all have been the admirable abolitionists in slave times? Would we have been the slave owners? Can we even predict who or what we are?

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I believe in non-violence as much as I believe in any social justice. But if I wasn’t steadfast in my values now, could I have held on to any similar values in different situations? I’d like to think that I’d have been a freedom fighter in slave-time America, Nazi Germany or Rwanda not even 20 years ago, but the hard truth is that I wouldn’t have been. Many argue that Dzhokar deserves the death penalty, or worse. It absolutely terrifies me that while I disagree logically, I agree emotionally. I do not object to people condemning Dzhokar’s life. I do not object to myself feeling the same, even though I tried to hide it. I’m no philosopher king, but I’m no monster either. I’m just like you.

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Democratic party must not sway too far left Noah M.

HORWITZ CIVIL AFFAIRS

The United States is, by most accounts, significantly skewed to the right in terms of its political positions. What would be considered “conservative” in the United States is significantly farther to the right of the cultural equivalent in Europe, namely the United Kingdom.

According to many ultra-liberals within the Democratic Party, this is a tragedy. But is this really a bad thing?

The Democrats, of course, are in one of the best electoral positions they have been in generations. The party has won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, and has demographics on its side, particularly the invaluably increasing Hispanic voting percentage. When most political pundits agree that the only way for the Republican Party to survive is for it to take a leftward step, it would appear that the ostensibly center-left political party, the Democratic Party, holds the leverage in the future of this country’s political discourse.

The Democrats are now attempting to use this newfound leverage to usher in more liberal control of the party, and a much more liberal agenda for this country. Such an attempt, though woul be misguided and unwise. The United States is a center-right nation politically, but this is not because there is no viable left-wing alternative.

The recent mayoral election in New York has been a fine example of this lurch to the left by the party. Christine Quinn, the City Council speaker who was supported by much of the Democratic establishment, came in an embarrassing third-place finish in the Democratic primary as her more liberal opponents berated her alleged centrism. Quinn supported many items of incumbent Michael Bloomberg’s agenda, including those that made die-hard liberals uneasy, such as her support for education reform. Bloomberg, a former Republican, may not have been the best endorser himself for Quinn. The victor of this primary, Bill de Blasio, is significantly more liberal on many of these issues.

Other examples of this phenomenon have been seen in the last month, like when fast food workers throughout the nation went on strike in search of higher wages. Ultra-liberals throughout the country flocked to stand in complete solidarity with the strikers’ demand of a $15.50 minimum wage. While many in this country, including myself, agree that the minimum wage is too low, the amount demanded is somewhat excessive. Similarly, ultra-liberals have fought any and all attempts of military intervention, however limited, in Syria. The new tactic has apparently conflated a desire of the party for only just or reasonable wars with a dovish foreign policy reminiscent of George McGovern.

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These cries from the left-wing are growing louder, and are being heeded more often.

Cory Booker, the charismatic mayor of Newark, N.J. and Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in New Jersey, has been panned heavily by the left for not being liberal enough.

Elizabeth Warren, the junior senator from this Commonwealth, is now being talked up by the left as a serious candidate for president in 2016, following an unwillingness by many ultra-liberals to consider Hillary Clinton. In an article from last December, Salon Magazine already castigated Clinton’s future candidacy that blasted her “entitlement” and declared that “the left wing of the Democratic Party has gotten stronger.” However, while Cory Booker and Hillary Clinton are feasible candidates for national office, their significantly more liberal counterparts are not.

The ultra-liberals must face the fact that the United States does not, and will not, sup-

port ultra-liberal candidates for office in swing states and on national platforms, just as the American people do not and will not support Tea Party Republicans in those circumstances.

One does not have to go beyond the crushing defeats of recent Republican Senate candidates, such as Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, who both took ideological extreme positions on social issues, to know how abundantly obvious this is.

A pacifist foreign policy and a $15 minimum wage are wonderful sound-bites for winning a Democratic primary in a blue state, but they are not realistic opinions shared by the majority of a country with center-right political views. Have these ultra-liberals forgotten the era of Richard Nixon & Ronald Reagan, when it was the Republicans who won the national popular vote in five out of six consecutive presidential elections? One of the reasons for this is that the excessively liberal positions of

the Democratic Party of the time were increasingly out of touch with the American people.

Candidates in this era, such as George McGovern and Michael Dukakis, lost not necessarily because they ran poor campaigns (though the jury is still out on that question), but because they held positions on issues that were out of step with most Americans. McGovern endorsed dangerously drastic cuts to our military and Dukakis actually allowed a program to continue under his watch that allowed weekend passes from prison to murderers, rapists, and other severe criminals.

We have seen ugly resurgences of these views in recent months, as more and more in the Democratic Party have turned to pacifist positions.

Such extreme ideological positions are what have been tearing the Republican Party apart in recent years. I hope the same fate will not occur in the Democratic Party.

Education at all levels should be a hands-on experience

By JENNIE BROMBERG JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

While I usually would not use Fox News as writing inspiration, a recent article was both too interesting and relevant to let go.

The article explained how the Ohio State University College of Medicine has changed its curriculum to adapt to rapidly expanding medical knowledge and technology by focusing on teaching students how to learn through a more individualized approach with more hands-on aspects than the traditional route of medical school. OSU College of Medicine’s progressive curriculum is one example of how the face of education is finally changing to keep up with societal and technological advances. But the changes that are finally being put in place are long overdue and not extensive enough. From students at an elementary school level to students at a graduate school level, there should be greater incorporation of hands-on learning and more focus on how the individual learns.

According to OSU College of Medicine’s website, their new curriculum, titled Lead.

Serve. Inspire., focuses on self-directed learning to tailor the medical school experience more to the individual. The LSI curriculum integrates interacting with patients into the beginning of medical school, rather than the path that most medical schools follow: textbook learning for the first two years and more experiential learning in the last two years.

Each student is given an iPad on which they can access class lectures and other resources.

Furthermore, health care economics classes are included in the curriculum to prepare students to become a doctor beyond treating an illness, such as managing a practice.

The integration of experience with textbooks and lectures is equally important on an undergraduate level, because an undergraduate education should prepare students for a career or for graduate school. Hands-on experience provides students with the opportunity to explore career paths and apply what is learned in the classroom to real-life situations. And, although the experience may not be career-specific like it would be on a graduate level, it still helps students gain work experience and make connections with people outside of their university.

The purpose of the changes in OSU College of Medicine’s curriculum and method of teaching is to adapt to “the shift in the nature of disease from acute illness to chronic multisystem disease, the technological explosion, and an ever-increasing knowledge about disease and management,” according to the OSU College of Medicine website. The way illness is perceived has shifted and the range of knowledge regarding health and illness is constantly expanding. OSU College of Medicine’s new curriculum is set up to work with these changes. Additionally, the curriculum change will help future doctors provide a better experience for patients by having medical school students interact with patients earlier on than in the traditional medical school route. Instead of focusing on just classroom learning during the first two years of school,

medical school students are “trained as medical assistants in the first six weeks, and within eight weeks they are seeing patients as health coaches,” according to the article.

The expansion in knowledge and accessibility of information extends beyond just medical education, and methods of education are slow to adapt. The most common way of teaching is still sitting in a room with one person lecturing. And we still see this in college lecture halls where a professor talks at you while you sit and scribble down some notes if you’re interested enough. While the information you need from textbooks (physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, etc.) is important in becoming a doctor, equally important is a more hands-on aspect: early exposure to patients. This kind of philosophy and method of education could and should be applied in other fields and areas of study.

Brandeis is also moving in this hands-on learning direction, albeit slowly and maybe not as effectively as it potentially could. Some classes like “General Biology Lab” and “Deconstructing War, Building Peace” are experiential learning courses, which according to the Brandeis website let students develop “knowledge, skills, and values from direct experiences.” Some of the majors even require an internship and students also have the opportunity to participate in a Justice Brandeis Semestery. While these are great, they have their limitations. They are difficult to fit into a busy schedule and can only accommodate so many students.

Brandeis could offer more EL courses and

make more hands-on education opportunities available. This can be done by making EL meeting times when most students don’t have class or by having a quasi-JBS that takes place on Tuesdays and Fridays so that students can still take other classes. It is especially difficult for science students to take advantage of Brandeis’ hands-on opportunities, which can be fixed by creating a sciencespecific JBS or something of a similar concept that works with the science classes.

When Brandeis students are able to take advantage of these more interactive experiences beyond the lecture hall, it provides more than just knowledge. According to the OSU College of Medicine’s website, one of the key aspects of the new LSI curriculum is the early integration of the information learned in textbooks with the hands-on aspects of being a doctor. For all levels of education, handson experiences also keep students grounded and motivated when the studying and paper writing gets overwhelming. Additionally, the experiences provide an opportunity to learn what cannot be taught through a textbook or a lecture.

Curricula across the various levels of education should follow in the steps of OSU College of Medicine and other institutions like Brandeis that are shifting the way students learn.

The hand-on experience is invaluable (especially with much of what we learn in the classroom so easily accessible) and prepares students just as much if not more for what will come after graduation.

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MSOCCER: Men endure setback following win CONTINUED FROM 16 scoring in nature, this game proved to be an exception. And the fourth goal arrived with 2:58 before halftime, as forward Michael Chaput ’16 finished a cross from Livadaru for his first collegiate goal.

Feather marked the beginning of the second half with a delicate finish, lofting the ball into the topright corner to give the Judges a commanding advantage.

Lasell’s boisterous fans would finally have reason to celebrate in the 82nd minute, when freshman midfielder Lance Mayo finished from close range to cut the advantage to 5-1.

However, it was too little, too late, as the Judges were able to run out the clock and celebrate a massive victory.

Following that game, Coven hailed Feather’s finishing ability.

“Kyle is finding the frame this year,” he said. “He’s always been involved in the attack. He’s probably worked on his shot, because

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he’s getting stuff on goal and he’s just attacking better.”

In addition to having praise for Feather, Coven complimented Ocel—who scored 14 goals last year and was named a Third Team AllAmerican—on his willingness to sacrifice his goalscoring in order to drop back and help him out in the midfield.

“We’ve been playing him back to help slow the game down, because he is very helpful there with all of our injuries. I asked him ‘Does it bother you [that you’ve been dropping back and not scoring as much]?’ He said, ‘Coach, I couldn’t care less how many goals I score, I just want then team to win.’ The team comes first for him.”

“But, when push comes to shove in the big games, in the [University Athletic Association] games, he’s going to be the one up top finishing up the chances for us.”

Brandeis returns to action tomorrow night, hosting the Wentworth Institute of Technology at 7 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL

Squad sees mixed results in matches ■ The women fell in straight

sets to Colby-Sawyer after playing Emmanuel to four sets in competitive matches.

By JESSE FELDSTEIN JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Judges hosted a three-team tournament this weekend, competing against the Emmanuel College Saints and the Colby-Sawyer College Chargers. The Judges failed to pick up a win, falling to 6-8 on the season, having beaten Wheaton College 3-1 earlier in the season.

The Judges’ first match went to four sets. Brandeis lost the first two sets 25-20, and 25-19, respectively.

However, the hosts rebounded in the third set with a 25-13 win, adding 14 kills and a sense of momentum going into the final set.

However, the Judges could not claw back to tie the Saints. Emmanuel won the set by 25-14 and sealed the match.

In their second match, the Judges lost in straight sets to the Chargers. The Judges surrendered the first set by a 25-18 score. In the second set, both squads went back and forth but the Chargers were able to scratch out a 25-23 win before wrapping up the victory with a 25-16 triumph in the third set.

Despite falling in both of the matches, the Judges featured some notable individual performers.

Outside hitter Liz Hood ’15 recorded a combined 29 kills on the day, while libero Elsie Bernaiche ’15 added 33 digs in the defeat.

Setter Maggie Swenson ’15 posted 34 assists in the first match and managed to tally up another 19 in the second match.

“Liz gets a big kill whenever we really need one,” said Bernaiche, who, for her part, led both matches in digs.

Though the Judges did have some standout performances in both of the matches, head coach Michelle Kim said she believed that the Judges didn’t play to their full potential during the tournament.

“We didn’t play as a team today,” Kim said. “We just didn’t have it.”

Kim said that the team did “okay” with a lot of things, but that

ultimately “okay” won’t lead to many wins.

“It’s important that we don’t get too comfortable with the way we are playing. We always have to be pushing,” Kim said.

Co-captain and outside setter Yael Einhorn ’14 thinks that attitude is a big part of the winning formula. She additionally noted that the Judges need to make a few adjustments in that area.

“If we don’t improve our attitude from this past weekend, we are going to have trouble in conference games,” she said.

According to Einhorn, volleyball is a sport filled with enthusiasm and encouragement.

However, she also acknowledged that it is hard to stay positive when each member of the team is highly competitive and in conflict with one another.

Despite the challenges that the Judges have faced in that particular area, she said she believes that the team has the potential to improve the issue and, as a result, become more successful.

“Still, the team chemistry is fantastic and we all get along great,” she continued, “even if sometimes it doesn’t totally show when we play together.”

Earlier in the week, the Judges downed the visiting Lyons of Wheaton. In that game, Hensley stood out for Brandeis, recording a double-double for the second time this season by notching 15 kills and 11 digs. Hensley’s kill total was her best this season and second on the team to Hood.

When asked about what goals the team had for the year, Einhorn said that the team wants to make it to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships, and improve their record in the University Athletic Association.

“We also want to have more fun when we play, which will lead to more wins,” Einhorn said.

According to Coach Kim, the goal is for the team to “play [its] best volleyball.”

The Judges will play their next match tonight at 7 p.m. at Simmons College.

— Henry Loughlin contributed reporting

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TRYING TO WIN IT: Forward Dara Spital ’15 attempts to keep a loose ball in bounds during the Judges’ 3-0 win on Sept. 15.

WSOCCER: Judges suffer first defeat of new year CONTINUED FROM 16 Though the concession of the goal was demoralizing in nature, the Judges continued to push for the tying goal.

Forward Holly Szafran ’16 had a shot in the 82nd minute, but Gordon sophomore goalkeeper McKenzie Dion stonewalled the effort. Additionally, Spital and defender Alec Spivack ’15 sent shots in the final minute that were high and wide, respectively, as Gordon—though outshot by a significant 23-6 margin—closed out the game for a seismic victory.

Despite falling for the first time

this season, Spital said she believes that the team’s unity and character has helped it perform well in its other opening games. “[Aside from the loss to Gordon], we have been having a great season so far,” she said. “Our team has a lot of confidence in each other and we have great team chemistry both on and off the field. It makes it easier to win games when you have trust in your teammates.”

However, as any defeat will do, the loss did make the Judges reflect a bit on their team’s mission and consider changes.

Spital said that the team, which has kept shutouts in four of its first

six matches, will return its focus to strong defense.

“Our biggest focus is keeping the ball out of the back of our net,” she said. “We have been working a lot on defending corner kicks and quick counterattacks. We try not to look too far ahead down our schedule. We are focusing on one game at a time. We’ve been getting better with every practice and are very excited for our big games [against Wellesley College and Bowdoin College] this week.”

The Judges are back in action tonight, hosting Wellesley at 7 p.m. before going to Bowdoin on Saturday for a 1 p.m. contest.

X-COUNTRY: Teams compete well in second meet of current season CONTINUED FROM 16 side those places. First-year Ashley Piccirillo-Horan ’17 just missed the top 20 while rounding out the Judges’ scoring on the day, finishing in 23rd, a mere two seconds behind Whitaker at 19:25.

Additionally, Maggie Hensel ’15, whose finish in 20:45 placed her in the top 100, provided depth for the squad.

The men were also successful in their pursuit of having quality performances in the team’s five leading runners.

Behind Harrigan and Hoey, they received impressive performances from Michael Rosenbach ’15 and Matt Doran ’17. Rosenbach averaged five minutes, 26 seconds per mile to finish the eight-kilometer race in 27 minutes even, good for

33rd place. Doran’s pace of five minutes, 30 seconds per mile saw him finish in 41st place at 27 minutes, 11 seconds.

Scoring for the men’s team— which was made more challenging by the fact that they were one of only three schools to bring the minimum five competitors to the competition—was rounded out by newcomer Daniel Leon ’17, who finished 108th out of 210 racers, covering the distance in 29:03, which was an average of five minutes, 49 seconds per mile.

Although the Judges finished just outside the top five as a team, the showing was impressive considering the small number of competitors they featured.

With these early-season successes, the men’s and women’s cross-

country teams have reason to be confident about their future performances. As a result, Evans looks at these performances as a metaphorical stepping stone to something bigger and better.

“It was a promising start,” he said. “We will move on to the next race [on Oct. 5], and we’re going to hopefully be in the mix at the end of the season.”

Both teams will have opportunities to prove themselves when they each travel to Keene, N.H. for the Keene State College Invitational on Oct. 5.

A week after that, on Oct. 12, they will find themselves competing against the best teams from all division in the region at the Open New England Championships to be held at Franklin Park in Boston.

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MEN’S SOCCER UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS Goals

2013-2014 Statistics UAA Conf.

W L D JUDGES 0 0 0 Carnegie 0 0 0 NYU 0 0 0 Rochester 0 0 0 Case 0 0 0 WashU 0 0 0 Emory 0 0 0 Chicago 0 0 0

Overall W L D Pct. 7 1 0 .875 7 1 0 .875 6 1 0 .857 5 1 1 .786 3 0 3 .750 3 1 1 .700 5 3 0 .625 3 2 1 .583

Kyle Feather ’14 leads the team with six goals.

Player Goals Kyle Feather 6 Tudor Livadaru 3 Sam Ocel 2 Michael Soboff 2

Assists Michael Soboff ’15 leads the team with four assists.

Player Assists Michael Soboff 4 Tudor Livadaru 3 Ben Applefield 3

UPCOMING GAMES: Tomorrow vs. Wentworth Tues., Oct. 1 at Wheaton Sat., Oct. 5 at Case

WOMEN’S SOCCER UAA STANDINGS

FINAL TEAM STATS

2013-2014 Statistics

Goals

UAA Conf.

W L D WashU 0 0 0 JUDGES 0 0 0 Carnegie 0 0 0 Chicago 0 0 0 Emory 0 0 0 NYU 0 0 0 Rochester 0 0 0 Case 0 0 0

W L 6 1 5 1 5 1 5 2 5 2 3 3 3 3 3 4

Overall D Pct. 0 .857 0 .833 1 .786 0 .714 1 .688 1 .500 1 .500 0 .429

UPCOMING GAMES: Tonight vs. Wellesley Saturday at Bowdoin Tues., Oct. 1 at Smith

Sapir Edalati ’15 leads the team with six goals.

Player Goals Sapir Edalati 6 Dara Spital 5 Holly Szafran 2 Kelly Peterson 1

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

Player Assists Dara Spital 4 Mary Shimko 2 Holly Szafran 2

VOLLEYBALL UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

2013-2014 Statistics

Kills

UAA Conf.

W L Emory 0 0 NYU 0 0 Carnegie 0 0 WashU 0 0 Chicago 0 0 Case 0 0 JUDGES 0 0 Rochester 0 0

Overall W L Pct. 14 1 .933 11 1 .917 11 3 .786 9 3 .750 10 5 .667 8 9 .471 6 8 .429 4 13 .235

UPCOMING GAMES: Today at Simmons Friday at Colby-Sawyer Saturday at Bowdoin

Liz Hood ’15 leads the team in kills with 193.

Player Kills Liz Hood 193 Carly Gutner-Davis 84 Si-Si Hensley 74 Rachael Dye 47

Digs Elsie Bernaiche ’15 leads the team in digs with 230.

Player Digs Elsie Bernaiche 230 Liz Hood 131 Si-Si Hensley 112 Amaris Brown 78

CROSS COUNTRY Results from Saturday’s Shriners Invitational at UMass Dartmouth.

TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)

TOP FINISHERS (Women’s)

RUNNER TIME Jarret Harrigan 26:22.0 Quinton Hoey 26:23.0 Michael Rosenbach 27:00.0 Matt Doran 27:17.0

RUNNER TIME Amelia Lundkvist 18:15.0 Maddie Dolins 18:39.0 Victoria Sanford 18:39.0 Kelsey Whitaker 19:25.0

UPCOMING EVENTS: Sat., Oct. 5 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Saratoga Invitational Sat., Oct. 12 at Open New England Championships (at Franklin Park)

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SEEING THE FIELD: New England Revolution right-back Andrew Farrell (left) has become a fixture in the Revs’ lineup.

Farrell has made right defensive spot his own ■ Andrew Farrell, the top pick in the 2013 MLS Draft, has played often in his first professional campaign.

By HENRY LOUGHLIN JUSTICE EDITOR

The New England Revolution was quite excited to acquire the numberone selection for the Major League Soccer draft in January.

It turns out the squad made a wise investment in right-back Andrew Farrell.

A right-back who has started 27 games this season, the 21-year-old Farrell has gained valuable experience in his first year in the MLS, having been drafted after his junior year of college.

“Growing up in Peru, where soccer is the biggest sport, I played every day after class,” said Farrell, a Louisville, Ky. native who lived in South America from ages five to 15 with his parents. “I just played a lot of soccer.”

Despite his young age, Farrell’s pedigree is impressive. A former National Soccer Coaches Association of

America First Team All-American at the University of Louisville, he was named Big East Player of the Year as a junior and was an integral part of a team that took part in the NCAA Division I Championship all three years that he played.

However, it is his adaptability that is arguably Farrell’s biggest asset.

After starting his collegiate career as a defensive midfielder, he was switched to center-back and now plays right-back.

“I got my technical ability from playing in Peru,” he said, explaining that a lot of defenders are mostly known for their physical side of the game.

“It’s a pretty good level of soccer there, and it’s very competitive.

Overall, developing that technical ability has helped me throughout my career.”

When asked who his main influences were, Farrell cited the Revs’ head coach Jay Heaps. “[Heaps] played that position in his career,” said Farrell. “A lot of what we’ve talked about is timing. If [leftback] Chris [Tierney] is staying back, I have to go forward and support the attack. When he goes forward, I stay

back. When we’re chasing the game, we have to support the offense and go forward. [Opponents] can get broken down by us having more numbers up top.

“It’s kind of like an accordion— when one of us goes somewhere, the other shifts to help out.”

Though a title such as “numberone draft pick” might come with prestige, Farrell does not let that go to his head. His down-to-earth, driven personality is evident and suggests that his focus and drive have not been altered by the accolades he has received.

“At some point, I’d love to represent my country,” he said. “Being able to play for my national team would be incredible. As far as my [individual] game goes, I just want to grow offensively—I think my game can still increase a lot in that area.

And I’ll hopefully get the chance to play in Europe if that opportunity comes.”

Despite his ambitions, Farrell isn’t getting too far ahead of himself, and is appreciative of his current challenge.

“I’m happy where I am right now,” he said. I’m in a good place.”

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Red Sox and Dodgers prove they can overcome adversity by clinching respective division titles The Boston Red Sox entered the 2013 season after a last-place finish in the American League East and three consecutive absences from the playoffs.

Likewise, two years ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers were an organization in shambles. The squad had a controversial owner, Frank McCourt, who bought the team on borrowed money and was forced to sell the team to the Guggenheim Baseball Management group with former Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson as a prominent figure for two billion dollars.

Last week, both franchises made a resounding statement following a long road of failure and adversity. Boston clinched the American League East for the first time since 2007 on Friday night, while on Thursday night, the Dodgers clinched their first National League West division title since 2009.

It may seem likely, after a sluggish start, that both teams will cross paths in the World Series. So—how formidable are the Dodgers?

A slew of injuries had the Dodgers off to a rocky start to the season.

Shortstop Hanley Ramirez, all-star center fielder Matt Kemp and free agent signee pitcher Zack Greinke all missed significant time. On June 21, the Dodgers were 30-42 and nine and a half games behind the first place Arizona Diamondbacks. On Aug. 17, though, they were 69-50 and well on their way to securing a first place finish in the National League West.

That win on Aug. 17 topped off an unheard-of 42-8 run, the best 50-game stretch for the Dodgers in the last 100 years. In fact, that is the most notable stretch of victories in the live-ball era.

Outfielder Yasiel Puig could be the

biggest reason this run occurred.

During those 50 games, Puig’s onbase percentage dipped below .400 once—to .398—and was consistently around .425. He played center and right field at an exceptional level, especially while his all-out style of play fueled the team on a nightly basis. Just a month into his baseball career, he was the center of a television advertisement marketing baseball on ESPN. He is not only important for the Dodgers—he is making the sport more popular.

After recovering from injuries, Ramirez and Greinke played tremendously this year. They have both put up all-star numbers since the middle of June. Greinke is 15-3 with a 2.45 earned run average on the year, good for fourth in the league. Ramirez is batting .351 with 20 home runs and 57 runs batted in despite battling injuries all

season. First baseman Adrian Gonzalez has 98 runs batted in and has been a force in the field and in the third spot in the lineup during the season.

Clayton Kershaw, the ace of the pitching staff, currently has a 1.94 earned run average. He has drawn comparisons to former Dodger Sandy Koufax, one of the greatest pitchers of all time. His 14-9 record is deceiving because he has pitched so well. A little bad luck has contributed to the oddly mediocre winning percentage.

Nevertheless, he is on pace to win his second Cy Young award and has made a strong case for the National League Most Valuable Player award.

The bullpen has been a huge boost. A formidable bullpen makes a good team great, and therefore, that’s exactly what has happened for these Dodgers.

Closer Kenley Jansen has led the staff

to post a 1.69 earned run average since the all-star break.

The biggest contributing factor, though, is money. Led by Johnson, the group has infused a large amount of cash into the organization. After an unprecedented trade with the Red Sox in July 2012, in which the Dodgers acquired $220 million in salary, Los Angeles also extended Kemp and outfielder Andre Ethier’s contracts. With the additional signings of premier starting pitcher Greinke as well as No. 3 pitcher Ricky Nolasco, the Dodgers boast a $220 million payroll, tops in the league.

The Dodgers have championship aspirations, and ultimately, it’s looking as if this surging squad will draw the Red Sox in the World Series.

That would be quite a turnaround.

— Jacob Moskowitz

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HOLDING HIS OWN

Judges’ winning streak cut short ■ The team outshot Gordon

23-6, but ultimately fell 3-2 in a game which was decided by a goal in the last 10 minutes.

By HENRY LOUGHLIN JUSTICE EDITOR

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QUICK FEET: Forward Michael Soboff ’15 dribbles past a Lasell defender during the Judges’ 5-1 home win over the Lasers.

Men lose at Tufts after big win against Lasell ■ After blowing out local foe Lasell in a home rout, the men lost to Tufts, which ended their unbeaten streak.

By HENRY LOUGHLIN JUSTICE EDITOR

Having survived tests against regional rivals Babson College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the No. 12 men’s soccer team would have hoped for a similar result against Tufts University on Saturday.

However, the Judges were not able to pick up the win, falling to Tufts 2-0 at Kraft Field in a hotlycontested game.

Earlier in the week, Brandeis, currently sitting at 7-1-1 for the year, downed visiting Lasell College in dominating fashion, beating their local opponents 5-1.

“We talked in training about not giving away stupid fouls, especially in the attacking half of good teams,” said head coach Michael Coven, referring to the first goal that the team ceded against Tufts. “We were over-committing in the midfield and losing the ball. We did a good job creating some chances, but we can’t give them opportunities to score like we did.”

Against Tufts, the Judges opened as the better of the two teams, putting significant pressure on the Jumbos’ defense. Forward Sam Ocel ’13 had the first real chance of the game in the fifth minute, getting

his head to a free kick from leftback Ben Applefield ’14. Though he made clean contact, he sent the looping header over the bar from six yards. Despite being away from their home field, the Judges had played at a higher level in the first few minutes.

However, the home team—after being offsides a couple of times— found the net in the 21st minute of the game. After the Judges were called for a foul, Tufts junior forward Gus Santos took a free kick from the left wing, which, despite goalkeeper Joe Graffy ’15 getting a hand to it, found its way into the net for a 1-0 advantage.

Though Brandeis’ initial response was bright, as forward Michael Soboff ’15 shot wide, the team would be undone again just six minutes later. The Judges’ defense was caught out for playing a high line, and Tufts sophomore midfielder Connor Brown sent in a low through ball, which evaded the defense and was finished by junior forward Max Hoppenot.

The two goals had an impact on the team’s play; they shocked Brandeis and galvanized Tufts. The Jumbos hadn’t played particularly well, but were suddenly orchestrating the midfield action. Meanwhile, Brandeis was frazzled, and only took two shots on goal, a driven effort from midfielder Tudor Livadaru ’14 and another header from Ocel that were stopped by Tufts freshman goalkeeper Scott Greenwood.

Looking to come out of the break strong, the Judges were instead on

the defensive and almost conceded a third goal in the 56th minute. Running away from goal, Tufts sophomore forward Tal Smith hit a shot that caromed off the underside of the crossbar. Three minutes later, Brandeis forward Evan Jastremski ’17 was set in on goal, but sent his effort over the bar.

Aside from the last 10 minutes, where the Judges had a couple of chances, Tufts dominated play in the second half, ending the game as deserving winners.

“When you lose a game, you go back and pick things apart and see what you did wrong,” Coven said.

“That’s what we’re doing right now and I’m hoping that we are able to do that here.”

Wednesday’s game was a vastly different story.

Against Lasell, the Judges wasted no time getting on the board, scoring the first goal of the match in the 11th minute. Right-back Foti Andreo ’15 sent a throw-in from the right wing, which bounced before being headed home by midfielder Kyle Feather ’15.

The second goal arrived 15 minutes later. Livadaru applied the finishing touch to a ball that bounced around in the box, hammering home to make it 2-0.

In the 38th minute, rookie midfielder Mike Lynch ’17 scored a superlative goal to make it 3-0, slamming a driven shot into the top-left corner which put the Judges three goals to the good.

While soccer is generally low-

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Though the No. 8 women’s soccer team started the season in undefeated fashion, winning its first five games and outscoring its opponents by a 16-2 margin, it was on the receiving end of a tough loss last week at Gordon College.

After drawing level twice, the Judges ultimately fell after ceding a goal with less than 10 minutes left in the game. And while the team had ample chances to draw level, Brandeis wasn’t able to find the back of the net once again, falling in a cruel 3-2 defeat.

“Gordon was a tough team, but we also had a hard time adjusting to the grass field,” said forward Dara Spital ’15, who scored the second equalizer against the host Fighting Scots.

“It was a well-battled game and we created many chances [outshooting the hosts 23-6] but were a bit unlucky.”

The Judges didn’t start the match in ideal fashion, as—despite outshooting Gordon 5-1 in the first 10 minutes—they conceded the first goal just 13 minutes, two seconds into the game.

Gordon senior midfielder Hannah Woudenberg crossed the ball from the left flank into the middle of the penalty box, where Fighting Scots’ junior midfielder Hannah Midwinter then recorded a goal for a 1-0 advantage.

Showing resilience, Brandeis equalized less than three minutes later through an unlikely source.

From a corner kick, center-back Kelly Peterson ’14 slammed the ball home, stopping the clock at 15:54 to knot the game at 1-1.

Given the Judges’ ranking as the top Division III team in New England—according to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America—one might have expected the Judges would take the initiative and grab the go-ahead goal.

However, the opposite fate proved true, as Gordon grabbed the advantage in the 29th minute.

Sophomore forward Lauren Hayes finished a cross from Woudenberg, who notched her second assist of the game for a 2-1 advantage.

After falling behind, the Judges tied the game once again, this time in the 35th minute.

Spital, one of Brandeis’ chief offensive threats who had been held scoreless for the previous two games—even with assists in both of those contests—got on the board, as she finished a hard shot from inside the box into the far side of the net to tie the game at 2-2.

The second half was a tepid affair, as, for significant amounts of time, neither team was able to breach the other’s goal.

However, the game was turned on its head in the 81st minute, as Gordon took the lead in dramatic circumstances.

Having been played a ball by senior defender Julia Miller, Midwinter found herself at the top of the box. She took a touch and curled a shot beyond diving goalkeeper Michelle Savuto ’15 in the right corner of the net.

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CROSS-COUNTRY

Women place second in competitive event ■ The men also took sixth in a meet highlighted by a win in the varsity competition by Amelia Lundkvist ’14.

By AVI GOLD JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The Brandeis University men’s and women’s cross-country teams got their respective seasons off to strong starts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Shriners' Invitational on Saturday.

Without captain Ed Colvin ’14, who usually sets the pace for the men’s team, the Judges still finished sixth out of 28 teams at the competition. Jarret Harrigan ’15 and Quinton Hoey ’17 who finished 21st and 22nd, respectively, paced the Judges. Both competitors averaged just under five minutes, 20 seconds per mile and impressed coach John Evans.

“We’re a young team, with three first-years, and it’ll be a transition year for them. They all came together pretty well,” he said.

In addition to the men’s success in their races, the women—much to the delight of Evans—took second out of 29 competing teams in the five-kilometer run.

The Judges took three of the top

six overall times, five of the top 25 times, and an individual win from co-captain Amelia Lundkvist ’14, who covered the five-kilometer course in 18 minutes, 15 seconds.

The variety of strong results led the Judges to a second-place finish behind Rowan University, which won the meet with 45 points, which was six better than Brandeis’ tally of 51 points.

Lundkvist was not the only strong performer for the women’s squad, though. Maddie Dolins ’17 had an impressive day, edging cocaptain Victoria Sanford ’14 for a sixth-place finish in 18:39, giving the Judges three runners in the top 10 overall places.

“The women ran really well,” said Evans. “It was a big step up from previous years and I was really pleased.”

In addition to the three runners in the top 10, the Judg- es snuck one more into the top 20, which was rounded out with Kelsey Whitaker ’16, who finished in 19:25.

“Amelia ran incredible and Dolins stepped in. [Those two and Sanford] give us a really great top three,” remarked Evans.

Putting four runners in the top 20 is certainly a notable achievement, but the Judges were lucky to have runners finishing right out-

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JustArts Volume LXVI, Number 4

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

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Waltham, Mass.

Tale as Old as Torah

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In this issue:

MFA Photography Exhibit Review of Middle-Eastern works

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Rose Art Museum

Scandal from Disney and beyond P. 18

RECEPTION P. 20-21

Curator of Warhol Exhibit talks art P. 18

Pop Culture

FALL OPENING A SUCCESS

Interview Column

ARTIST SUZANNE HODES

WSRC hosts local artist P. 22

Photo Contest This week’s theme: Almost Illegal P. 24

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ON-CAMPUS EVENTS ‘The Great Gatsby’

Leonardo DiCaprio does not disappoint in this fantastic movie—the latest of a legacy of film adaptations of the classic American novel. Join us for the second movie in Student Events’ Fall Film Series. This is a must see if you are a DiCaprio fan and love lots of crazy colors and wild actors.

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

Harold Shapero: A Tribute

A celebration of the beloved Brandeis professor emeritus and acclaimed neoclassical composer.

Sally Pinkas ’80, Ph.D ’91, pianist-inresidence and professor of music at Dartmouth College, and her husband, pianist Prof. Evan Hirsch (MUS), also known as the Hirsh-Pinkas Piano Duo will perform Shapero’s music for Toccata Classics.

Program includes Shapero’s “FourHand Sonata (1941),” “Sonata in F minor (1948)” and “Variations in C minor (1947).” The two have also premiered and recorded the music of George Rochberg, Daniel Pinkham, Peter Child, Thomas Oboe Lee and Kui Dong for the Naxos, Arsis, Albany and Otherminds labels.

Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Slosberg Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

Joseph Ketner Curator of the Rose Art Museum’s Andy Warhol exhibit Photo courtesy of Joseph Ketner

This week, justArts spoke with Joseph Ketner, the former director of the Rose Art Museum from 1998 to 2005, who is currently the Henry and Lois Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice at Emerson College and also curated the Rose’s Andy Warhol exhibition.

JustArts: Would you tell us a bit more about your background with Warhol’s work and why you chose to curate this exhibit?

Joseph Ketner: I’ve been working with Warhol seriously for maybe 10 or 12 years. I’ve done a series of exhibitions, three or four, and published three or four books on Warhol. And when the Warhol Foundation, with whom I have a close relationship, offered the gift of 150 photographs to Brandeis—that gift comes with the stipulation that the University produce an exhibition with them—I made a proposal to do such a show. I gathered my colleague in Cincinnati, Raphaela Platow, who used to work with me at the Rose Art Museum, and we joined forces with [Head Preparator] Roy Dawes, who produced this.

Har Mar Superstar at Cholmondeley’s

Come rock out to Har Mar Superstar at Chum’s this weekend. Har Mar Superstar has performed on the talk shows of Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and George Lopez. He recently toured with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and also dance battled Ben Stiller in Starsky and Hutch as Dancin’ Rick and now he is performing for Brandeis!

Saturday at 9 p.m. in Cholmondeley’s. Admission is free and this event is open to the public.

JA: So, a little bit more about your background—we’re curious as to what you do at Emerson College.

JK: I have the Foster Chair in Contemporary Art, the same Foster whose name is on the wing that houses the Warhol exhibition at the Rose, and I teach, and I also function as an independent curator, curating exhibitions around the world.

JA: How did you first get started learning about art history and interested in curating exhibits?

JK: I’ve been doing it for 35 years now, and I went to school to study history and European history and literature, and just one of those moments where I took a course and the light bulb went on, and I realized art history was what I wanted to do. And I wanted to be more active and less academic, so I chose to go into the museum profession.

JA: So, according to your website, you’re currently working on a publication about post-World War II art. Could you talk a bit more about what is in this time period and what categorizes this sort of art?

JK: It’s a subject that not many Americans know; Europeans know this particular niche that I’m dealing with.

It’s the German group zero, and a variety of artists, who ... were the people who decided to break away from the French and American painting traditions of Pollock, de Kooning and some of the more famous French tradition of Picasso, Matisse, etc.

It begins to break down painting; it began to introduce kinetic work, light work, new materials, video television, performance. And in my estimation, they should be better known because they were doing this in advance of most of the trends that are in the traditional narrative of art history.

JA: Would you tell us a bit more about what goes into the process of curating an exhibit, specifically the Warhol exhibit at the Rose?

JK: The idea. With contemporary artists, you don’t start with an idea and look for the artist. With historical things, you should have a familiarity with the work done, and sometimes, like in the case of this show, the most obvious thing is the one that is hardest to find. For me, the obviousness of Warhol’s use of photography had not really been treated in a critical, scholarly way. Yes, Christoph Heinrich, a few years ago, did a big publication, but I was surprised when I used the Warhol archives to find that he missed about 15 years worth of photography and the entire connection of Warhol’s use of photography to his development of pop art.

And that idea took some years to really refine to a point where I could articulate it this quickly on the telephone to a couple of young women from Brandeis interviewing me.

It took a couple of years to get to that point. And then you start seeking the works that most appropriately realizes this idea. And then you create a visual experience.

One of my hopes for many people—they’re not going to go in there and read those labels, and try to get into the information, that’s fine, I’m comfortable with that—but I want them to go in there and have an exciting and dynamic visual experience.

—Rachel Hughes

Views from Home and Abroad

Catch a glimpse of the lives of Brandeis seniors in both their home environments and their journeys abroad. This week, art that students from the Class of 2013 created over the summer will be on display in this show.

This is an ongoing exhibit in the Goldman-Schwartz Art Studios, room 112. This event is free and open to the public.

The Rose Art Museum Fall Exhibitions—Andy Warhol and More

The Rose opened with five new exhibits, including Image Machine: Andy Warhol and Photography. This is a groundbreaking exhibition featuring images of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Gianni Versace, Cheryl Tiegs and Jackie Kennedy, examining the central role of photography in Warhol’s art and its relationship to his portrait painting and documentation on the artist’s social life.

Other new exhibits on view include Light Years: Jack Whitten 1971-1973, Omer Fast: 5,000 Feet is the Best, Collection in Focus: Al Loving and Minimal and More: 60s and 70s Sculpture from the Collection.

On view through Dec. 15 at the Rose Art Museum. The exhibits are free and open to the public.

OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS Throwback Thursday: A “Hippie Chic” College Welcome

Welcome back, college students.

Join us on Sept. 26 for Throwback Thursday and study the art of peace, love and fringe.

Dress up in your funkiest threads, take your picture with vintage Volkswagen vans, make your own tie-dye, tune into some groovy music on the jukebox and check out the far-out “Hippie Chic” exhibition. The exhibition showcases the colorful and fun spirit of “hippie” style that informed the beautifully-made garments of

“chic,” in 54 ensembles complete with paisley, velvet and far-out wigs.

Thursday from 6 to 9:45 p.m. This event is free for university students at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Artist Talk: Designer Duo Proenza Schouler

Designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez met while studying at the Parsons School of Design in New York and launched their distinctive clothing brand Proenza Schouler shortly thereafter.

Notable for an intriguing and inventive use of fabric, their designs are inspired by influences ranging from the Himalayan region of Nepal; the coy urban youth culture of New York; and artists Cy Twombly, Mark Rothko and Gerhard Richter.

Since launching in 2002, Proenza Schouler has received an extraordinary number of accolades and awards, including the coveted Council of Fashion Designers of America Womenswear Designer of the Year Award three times, most recently in 2013. McCollough and Hernandez will discuss their designs and inspirations with the Barbara Lee Chief Curator Helen Molesworth.

Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

Admission is $15 for members and students and $20 for nonmembers.

‘One Man, Two Guvnors’

Richard Bean’s award-winning play is a glorious celebration of British comedy: a unique, laugh-out-loud mix of satire, songs, slapstick and glittering one-liners. Based on The Servant of Two Masters, Carlo Goldoni’s 18thcentury Italian comedy, One Man, Two Guvnors gives you “a funhouse parade of fools, lovers, clowns, parents, and pompous asses,” according to the New York Times.

Showing through Oct. 12 at the Lyric Stage in Boston. Tickets range from $32 to $65.

POP CULTURE n

ww You’ve probably heard the expression the “Disney star curse,” an epithet that people use to describe the number of former Disney stars who have had brushes with scandals, breakdowns and rehab stints. Now, yet another celeb has been added to this so-called cursed statistic—Zac Efron. That’s right, the former High School Musical star apparently completed two stints of rehab treatment this year. Earlier reports speculated that Efron, 25, was struggling with alcohol addiction, but on Wednesday, TMZ broke the news that what he was really battling was an addiction to cocaine that started two years ago.

His second rehab stint came after a major relapse that he had in April while filming the upcoming Seth Rogen comedy Neighbors. Efron recently made appearances around the Toronto International Film Festival, looking happy and in a good place, so here’s hoping that he has gotten back on the right track.

Another former Disney star, Miley Cyrus, also made headlines this week.

But, come on, is that really all that surprising? Relatively fresh off her scandalous Video Music Awards performance that sent mothers across the country up in arms, the “We Can’t Stop” singer, 20, is back in the news, this time for splitting with Aussie actor Liam Hemsworth.

Reps for both Cyrus and Hemsworth, 23, confirmed to People magazine that their engagement has indeed been called off.

The duo met while filming 2010’s The Last Song, and after a rocky period of break ups and make ups, they got engaged in May 2012. News of their engagement ending surfaced just last Monday, but it didn’t take long for additional reports to come out, stating that both Hemsworth and Cyrus have moved on. Last Tuesday, Los Angeles photographers captured Hemsworth in a passionate embrace with Eliza Gonzalez, 23, a Mexican actress. Miley has been linked to the 24-year-old producer of her new album Bangerz, Mike WiLL Made It—yes, that is his full professional name. Seeing as it took them no time to rebound, Miley and Liam have proven that they could—and

By Mara Sassoon

Abaca Press/MCT

WRECKING BALL: Celeb couple Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth recently called it quits. did—stop.

In news not associated with former Disney Channel stars, Miami Heat player LeBron James married his high school sweetheart Savannah Brinson in California on Sept. 14. The wedding was a long time coming as James and Brinson got engaged in January 2012. The couple also has two young sons together.

The four-time MVP ensured that their nuptials were kept private—weddinggoers could not have their phones for the ceremony or reception.

Last of all, just what you wanted … an update on former reality television star Jon Gosselin! Gosselin, 36, who starred

along with his ex-wife Kate and their eight children in the TLC reality series Jon and Kate Plus 8, made headlines this past week not once, but twice. For some reason, he became the talk of the town for taking a job as a waiter at a Beckersville, Penn. restaurant. Maybe this reemergence into the spotlight was just too much for Gosselin to handle because on Friday, he supposedly pulled a gun on a female photographer who had been following him home from the restaurant.

TMZ claims that Gosselin confirmed to them that he fired off a warning shot to the photographer and he maintains that he had the legal right to do so.

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Theater

Tradition lives on in 24-Hour Musical

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COME TOGETHER RIGHT NOW: The town sings to Belle, played by Margot Grubert ’17, in the beginning of the performance.

By Emily WISHINGRAD Justice EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

On Sunday night, more than 150 students starred in the 24-Hour Musical, possibly the most hyped-up and talked-about theater event of the year. A musical produced within the span of 24 hours is an annual Brandeis tradition. Every year, the musical to be performed is kept secret until the 24-hour rehearsal period starts. This year, the musical that was released to the Brandeis community—and to the actors at 8 p.m. the night before the show—was Beauty and the Beast: Tale as Old as Torah to be directed by Jason Dick ’14, Melanie Pollock ’14 and Katie Doody ’14.

As one might expect, the 24-Hour Musical productions are not exactly polished. The performances are understandably full of comedic mishaps due to the short span of time the actors have to prepare. However, the fact that the musicals are rough

around the edges is what makes the 24-Hour Musical all the more enjoyable. The audience is encouraged to laugh right along with the actors.

Even though the show was not perfect; it was amazing that such a coherent performance was accomplished in 24 hours. In Sunday night’s performance, the actors made their characters come to life.

It was also hard to imagine musical numbers could be prepared in such a short amount of time, but nevertheless, the actors put on numerous lively and extravagant numbers, many of which looked as though they had been prepared for months.

The show started off with some technical difficulties. In the first two scenes, the microphones were not working, but halfway through the third scene, to everyone’s relief, the problem was fixed and the actors became audible. Quickly and effectively fixing fumbles proved to be a theme throughout the night.

There were entrances missed, lines

lost and on-stage collisions, but the actors recovered from all these mishaps beautifully. Actors would improvise lines, wait out awkward silences in order to get back on track or help each other out with cues. At one point, Margot Grubert ’17, playing Belle, sang a line three times to get back on cue. The crowd clapped loudly as she once again became in sync with the music.

One of the highlights of the night—and there were many—was in the opening scene when the narrator and rabbi, Jason Kasman ’16, told the backstory to the musical: the tale of how a young prince turned into a beast. In the scene, the young prince, Ricky Rosen ’14, refuses an unattractive woman in a cloak who subsequently puts a spell on him to transform the man into a beast. Once the woman completed the spell, she pulled off her cloak only to reveal the actor: Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel. The crowd

went wild.

Some of my favorite musical numbers were “Be Our Guest,” which included nearly the whole cast, “Gaston” sung by Gaston, played by Levi Squier ’14, Lefou and the villagers, and “Beauty and the Beast” sung by Mrs. Potts, played by Miriam Goldman ’15. “Be Our Guest” was one of the largest musical numbers and was amazingly executed. The choreography, which included high kicks, was almost in sync, an amazing feat considering there must have been more than 70 people on stage, all in large and bulky costumes. “Gaston” was near-perfect and Bethany Adam ’15, playing Lefou, Gaston’s extremely awkward and subservient sidekick, barely used her script once during her sizeable solo. In “Beauty and the Beast,” Goldman beautifully sang a heartwarming, melodic refrain as Belle and the Beast shared an intimate moment at dinner.

The Jewish spin on the annual musical is a Brandeis tradition; last

year’s performance was The Little Mermaideleh and the year before, The Wedding Tzinger. This year, the theme of Jewish culture was definitely not overlooked; throughout the show, there were copious references to both the culture and tradition. Lumieré, played by Chris D’Agostino ’17, was represented in the shape of a menorah instead of the conventional candelabra. Belle makes her father a kippah and at one point, Cogsworth, played by Ian Carroll ’15 suggests that Belle’s rations for the night should be some water and a little challah.

I have to give my most sincere compliments to all the actors. They accomplished a seemingly impossible task—a play in a day. I sometimes forgot that these actors had slept little in the last day because they were so animated and involved in their roles. After the finale, “Be Our Guest,” a number which included the whole cast, the audience gave a standing ovation.

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THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES: Belle sees the gentle creature within the Beast, Steven Kline ’14, for the first time.

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MARRY ME: The Silly Girls fawn over the play’s handsome antagonist, Gaston, played by Levi Squier ’14 in the village pub.

LAST DANCE: Beauty and the Beast share a slow dance after a romantic dinner.

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Rose Art Museum Opening 2013

ROSE ART MUSEUM

Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971-1973 PHOTOS BY OLIVIA POBIEL/the Justice

HUMAN TOUCH: Museum-goers view a piece in the Warhol exhibit, Screen Tests, in which Warhol tries to, as he says, “catch people being themselves.”

Andy Warhol: Image Machine What can you say about Andy Warhol that hasn’t already been said about him by every hipster art junkie a thousand times? Sure, we could talk about post-World War II consumerist culture and its influence on Warhol’s pop art-era pieces. We could allude to a culture of objectification and Warhol’s exposition of it, or his critique of cultural commodification of celebrity and social calamity.

But that’s been said already.

The new Rose Art exhibit, Andy Warhol: Image Machine, reveals Warhol in both old and utterly new lights, celebrating his more prominent art but also disclosing a unique breadth to Warhol’s work for which he is seldom recognized. Dubbed the “Pope of Pop” by his fans, Andy Warhol is often synonymously connected to the ’50s and ’60s Pop Art movement, a period that marked a transition from elitist and moralistic themes in art to the utilization of popular cultural objects as the subject of art.

Image Machine, curated by Joseph Ketner, a professor at Emerson College and a former director of the Rose, is electric and eccentric, freakishly funky, gritty and graphic, erotically evocative and vividly provocative. It showcases his more prominent pieces, such as his screenprints of Cheryl Tiegs, Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins—which, in their highly-edited color manufacturing and repetition, portray the notion of celebrity as a manufactured commodity that our culture is not only fascinated with, but wholeheartedly consumes. Paintings like “Saturday Disaster,” which duplicates two identical images of a car crash, highlight a cultural fixation on tragic events and the twisted pleasure our society takes in constantly absorbing such images. Using techniques of repetition and color variation, his depictions of nudity and of the sexed body expose a cultural fascination regarding sex as commodity, and the human body as valued by only its sexual worth.

The exhibit’s notable display of Warhol’s “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century,” featuring pop-art pieces of the Marx Brothers and of our very own Louis Brandeis, relays Warhol’s commitment to exploring and exposing the social and cultural tensions of his time. Additionally, the homoerotic themes prevalent in many of the exhibit’s pieces, and the images of 1960s underground gay and transgender culture, attest to Warhol’s rejection of the era’s social conventions.

Yet the immense range of Warhol’s work, and his significant departure from the chiefly manufactured image, is perhaps the exhibit’s most compelling feature. The exhibit features his less glorified experimentation with film and the moving image, called “Screen Tests.”

The inclusion of these pieces lends a unique amount of rawness and humanity to an exhibit of an artist most famous for his lack of realism. The black-and-white nature of the “Screen Tests” differs significantly from the “color-mania” that distinguishes his more prominent pieces. The unedited nature of the Screen Tests and their lack of embellishment surround the subjects in each film with a poignant amount of realness.

Indeed, Warhol described his motivation for using film as “to catch people being themselves.” The use of film, a medium inherently susceptible to error, seems to not only allow, but embrace, human flaw. Each film consisted of extreme close-ups on the subject’s face as the subject stares into the camera. In contrast to his pop art pieces, which use cultural objects as the subjects, Warhol’s “Screen Tests” use humans as human subjects instead of commodifying them. The authenticity that permeates these films marks a departure from Warhol’s fixation with celebrity and actors as subjects, who base their careers on how well they can play a character and mask their authentic selves.

The most emotionally stirring of these “Screen Tests” is that of poet Ann Buchanan, whose commitment to not blinking for her entire roll of film brought tears to her eyes, and she spent the latter half of the film silently weeping. This moment was both organic and harrowing, as the image of silent tears trickling down her forlorn expression underscored a fundamental sadness inherent in human nature. The inclusion of such candid moments in the exhibit added an element of realness to Warhol’s breadth of work for which he is less commonly recognized, and gave significant depth to the entire exhibit.

Warhol’s venture into more realist territory was also apparent in his unedited Polaroid photos of celebrities and prominent social figures, juxtaposed on the wall next to his popart era screenprints of various celebrities.

The washed-out, decolorized appearance of the Polaroids starkly contrasts to his images of Joan Collins and Cheryl Tiegs, in which he embellishes the lips and eyes, isolating the most sexualized aspects of a woman’s face (a commentary on objectification of woman’s body parts in popular culture). In his engagement with more unedited and unembellished media, such as the Polaroids and the films, Warhol notably does not force a commentary on cultural norms or fixations. Rather he allows the various manifestations of the image to speak for themselves, without politicizing or commercializing them.

If Andy Warhol: Image Machine revealed any overriding theme, it was that Warhol was much more than just an image machine.

He was an image genius, knowing when to manipulate an image, but also completely attuned to when to simply leave an image alone.

His depictions of celebrity and commodity are skillfully modified to disclose a component of consumerist culture that is acutely intoxicating and equally tragic.

Yet his portrayal of humanity reveals an element of authenticity in Warhol’s work that is perhaps most poignant of all. The heart of the exhibit rests in the images that are most meaningful in their bareness. However brilliantly he may compose a picture, the genius of Andy Warhol is not found in his capacity to manufacture an image. In this exhibit, Andy Warhol’s genius lies in his ability to allow his images just to be.

—Arielle Gordon

The Rose has experienced some serious redecorating. A year ago, the Rose Art Museum exploded with colorful, vibrant artwork and mirrored floors covering the entire front room. But now, the Gerald S. and Sandra Fineberg Gallery, the first exhibit upon entering the museum, features Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971-1973, curated by the Rose’s new curator-at-large, Katy Siegel. This exhibit is far less exuberant than its predecessor and the fun glass floors have been replaced.

The abstract painter fits the contemporary atmosphere of the Rose, and it is hard not to be taken aback by the sheer immensity of Whitten’s work. Standing at the front of the room, the exhibit is very symmetrical and balanced: two medium-sized works hang on either side of the door on the back wall; the side walls each feature one huge work flanked by smaller pieces, and each side has a glass table display of small works.

I think that the symmetry reflects the clean-cut nature of the artwork and also adds balance to the complex colors.

Though Whitten has an impressive array of work dating back to the 1960s and was educated at the Cooper Union in New York, the Rose features his work from the early ’70s, called Slab paintings because of their size. At this time, he began to further experiment with alternative creative processes and unconventional materials, ultimately creating an artistic technique where he dragged an oversized T-shaped piece of wood across a canvas to create the desired effect of lines. The Alabama native was able to create his own version of abstractionism while escaping from the typical hand-brushed canvas art style.

The selection of works are diverse in appearance yet still maintain a sense of continuity.

They all have a feeling of austerity, simplicity and organized abstraction, especially in comparison to Walead Beshty’s exhibit— the shatteredmirror floor—that previously occupied the space. One work on display, “Third Testing,” created in 1972, has a texture similar to concrete pavement, and the brown color with subtle lines running through almost looks like a rock formation. Though simple, the acrylic painting is a good example of Whitten’s style and its placement right next to the exhibit description is an ideal introduction.

Two of the largest works are entitled “The Pariah Way” and “Asa’s Palace,” both created in 1973. Both are breathtaking to stand in front of, and you feel fully absorbed by their immensity and beautiful detail. Whitten has a way of maintaining simple and monochromatic works, yet also introducing pops of color that add another layer to the piece. In “The Pariah Way,” the use of green, blue and rust color splotches in horizontal layers up the painting creates what looked to me like a skyline. It was my favorite piece in the exhibition and I loved the dark background with patches of muted colors.

“Asa’s Palace” is a demure pinkish-purple with abstract blobs of yellow throughout. To me, the name is particularly interesting, and I’m left wondering what the story or inspiration is behind it: whether it represents a specific place Whitten has visited or an abstraction of an idea.

“The Eighth Furrow,” a medium-sized work, stands out with its copper coloring and pounded

texture. It is very monochromatic, but the texture offers an interesting depth. Of the smaller works, a set of six “Acrylic Collages” hangs on the walls—colored acrylic pieces arranged abstractly on light brown linen. The collages are pretty much the definition of abstraction, meaning the pieces are open to interpretation of each individual viewer—maybe you see an eye or a bird.

The two sets of small series in the exhibit tables on opposite sides of the room are entitled “Cut Acrylic Series” and “Dispersal ‘B’.” The former are three works of pastel and powdered pigment on paper and are mostly black with patches of blue, purple, green and red. A varying amount of the white background is seen, and some areas are darker in color. “Dispersal ‘B’” is four works of dry pigment and reflects Whitten’s interest in spray and splatter techniques that basically create themselves on the paper. However, in both collections, the glass of the case added a layer of glare and detracted from the overall viewing of the pieces.

Whitten’s exhibit offers a unique addition to the Rose this semester and is definitely different than its usual modern and contemporary exhibits. While abstract, the paintings all have an air of timelessness and romanticism stemming from the rich, yet muted colors and simplicity.

I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit and am looking forward to Jack Whitten’s upcoming visit and symposium to the Rose in October.

—Jessie Miller

Minimal and More: ’60s and ’70s Sculptures from the Collection

COLOR CRAZE: Viewers at the opening of the Rose Art Museum last Tuesday examined pieces in Andy Warhol: Image Machine.

The Rose Art Museum, true to form, has offered an exhibit that unites both the past and the present while expanding the viewer’s idea of what can be considered “minimalist art.”

Looking back to the era of counterculture, the new exhibit Minimal and More: 60s and 70s Sculptures from the Collection, curated by Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum, features an eclectic combination of abstract sculptures from artists of those years.

The history of Minimal and More is uncommonly relevant to its current production. In 1996, the Rose put together an exhibit entitled More than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the ‘70s, which displayed the work of 11 female sculptors whose “commitment as feminists coexisted with the strong influence of the 1960s artistic movement, Minimalism,” according to the Rose’s website.

The current exhibit provides a new twist by including the works of male sculptors from the countercultural era alongside works from three of the female sculptors of the original ’96 exhibition. The inclusion of works by the four male artists, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Carl Andre and Anthony Caro, alongside works by the three female artists, Jackie Ferrara, Mary Miss and Jackie Winsor, forces the viewer to consider questions about gender in art, especially in the context of feminism.

At first glance, the sculptures, with their diversity of materials such as painted steel, wood, cast concrete and plastic, look like they belong outside. Upon closer examination, however, the different materials create a unique narrative about the exhibit—the sculptures by female artists are all produced from wood, a material that is natural, strong and versatile.

In contrast, the sculptures by male artists were made from the commercial materials of plastic, steel and cast concrete. The placement of the

sculptures mixed together allows each visitor to notice this pattern independently and appreciate each piece on its own before focusing on the artistic distinction in gender.

The pieces also share the common theme of being complicated in design but simple in style, a unique contrast that can be found in minimalist art. There are no flashy accessories or conspicuous coloring on any of the sculptures, leaving a bare-bones artwork that has little to hide. Caros’ two sculptures of painted steel, “Horizon” from 1966 and “Octave” from 1971, for instance, stand sturdy in burnt pink and muted green, respectively. The bent metal of both sculptures conveys a visual complexity within the simplicity of a single material.

Similarly, Miss’ “Stake Fence” takes the form of a long wooden fence with large wooden stakes poking out of it. The use of a few pieces of wood is able to create the danger and intricacy of the stake fence without color or a labyrinthine technique.

The chosen space—the lower level of the Gerald and Sandra S. Fineberg Gallery—seems too small to appropriately stage the exhibit. Walking space is limited, and I often found myself coming very close to colliding with a sculpture.

Furthermore, sculptures are best viewed from all angles, and the exhibition space does not comfortably permit a full 360-degree inspection of each work of art. A larger gallery would allow for a closer examination of and less physical risk for each sculpture.

Minimal and More reintroduces abstract sculpture to the Rose and, with it, a series of provocative questions about gender and minimalist art. It offers a valuable contribution to the lineup of new fall exhibits and, most importantly, reminds the viewer that the definition of “art” is always evolving.

—Phil Gallagher

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THE THINKER: A student pensively examines “The Pariah Way” in Jack Whitten’s exhibit at the opening of the Rose Art Museum last Tuesday.

5,000 Feet is the Best In preparation for the Rose Art Museum’s fall opening reception last Tuesday, the fine arts community on campus has been eagerly anticipating the new exhibitions and the special events that accompany them. From classrooms to bulletin boards, club meetings to email announcements, it’s been hard to go far on campus this semester without hearing the name of one of the five artists whose exhibitions just opened. Take, for example, Israeliborn, American-educated film and installation artist Omer Fast—his film project installation, 5000 Feet Is The Best, is one of the five new exhibitions and the first of a series of video art to be exhibited at the Rose. The artist kicked off last Tuesday’s events by giving a talk about his work immediately preceding the museum’s opening reception.

Fast’s talk quickly packed the Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque by its scheduled start time of 4 p.m., attended largely by students of Fine Arts classes.

Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum, gracefully introduced Fast, whose laidback, personable disposition put the audience at ease as he began to speak. Bedford has organized two of Fast’s previous solo exhibits.

For the past 12 years, Fast has been using video as a medium to comment on current events, producing works that are both politically and emotionally charged.

After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College, Fast first embarked on unsuccessful and amateurish attempts at video projects, he told the audience with a laugh.

He reminisced about taking a trip to the small town of Glendive, Mont., using a school travel grant, with the intention of buying television advertisement airtime to show his art to a captive audience. He was denied the airtime by the small-town cable company, and went on to show what he produced instead during his time in Glendive: an approximately 12 minute long video showing each of the 5,000 homes in the town at the time. Fast then showed the audience another short video—of him, making the sounds of wind, barking dogs, cars whizzing by into a microphone—that

comprised the audio track of the Glendive video. At the time of filming, he wasn’t aware that he hadn’t turned the camera’s sound on, so he creatively provided his own audio.

Though the style Fast uses in his videos evokes the realist, first-person point of view style that is characteristic of documentary films, he contests the stylistic designation: “I don’t think of myself as a documentarian, but I do rely on the document … to give a sense of the real.” Fast began to talk about how he first started manipulating bits of filmed conversations to compile a narrative that was, as it was shown to the viewer, very different from what actually happened— but the seamless integration of multiple film bits into one work led to a radically different final story.

The work 5000 Feet Is The Best uses this style of film integration to establish a narrative around a conversation that Fast had with a man who worked as a U.S. Air Force Predator drone operator, whose job was, literally, to watch the damage of Predator drones and determine the best method of placement for the drones so as to maximize their potential to harm. Playing on loop at the Mildred S. Lee Gallery in the Rose, 5000 Feet Is The Best bombards viewers with a story whose conclusion is unfathomable.

“In 5000 Feet,” Fast said at his artist talk, “we’re presented with something that is not completely understood…. There is no closure for this particular person, and there is none for us as viewers.”

Often, with film and video installations, museum goers tend to walk in and out of a viewing area. But in the case of Fast’s installation in the Rose, viewers are drawn in and the piece demands attention. The filmed conversations Fast conducted with his subject are spliced by dramatic reenactments of the traumatic events that the man discusses.

Perhaps the success of the 30-minute video is that it is one that viewers cannot simply walk away from. It works toward what Fast calls “a poetic truth, a resonance.” He said reverently, toward the conclusion of his talk, that “in its best moments, art can do that.”

—Rachel Hughes

TALK ABOUT IT: Artist Omer Fast discusses his exhibit 5,000 Feet Is The Best at an artist talk before the opening of the Rose Art Museum.

Design by LILAH ZOHAR and REBECCA LANTNER/the Justice

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ART exhibit

Exhibit evaluates themes of motherhood

Photos by JENNY CHENG/the Justice

WOMAN IN THE WOODS: This artwork, “Self-Portrait (After G. Bellini),” was created in 2004 and done in charcoal, Conté and pastel on paper.

A MOTHER’S LOVE: In this piece, entitled “Mother in Her Orange Robe” and created in 1989, a mother figure in casual clothing smiles shyly.

ART IN DIALOGUE: Suzanne Hodes spoke about her Family Matters exhibit on Sept. 18 at the Kniznick Gallery of the Women’s Studies Research Center.

By maia rodriguez-semp justice contributing writer

This summer, from June 20 through Wednesday, Sept. 25, the Kniznick Gallery of the Women’s Studies Research Center is hosting Suzanne Hodes’ collection of pieces entitled Family Matters: Three Generations of Women. The collection on display in the gallery is only a small portion of Hodes’ life’s work.

Hodes is originally from New York City, though she has lived in the Boston area for many years. Both metropolitan regions have left their mark in some of the small details of her paintings and charcoal work. The backgrounds of the pieces in Family Matters provide an abstract urban setting—apartments and small spaces. Sometimes the image could represent an actual memory of a place, but some backgrounds are vague, swirling around the primary characters to create feeling rather than fact.

Contrary to her past styles, Hodes’ current exhibition at Brandeis is far more intimate. The artist is well-versed in social and political commentary as shown by her previous works depicting topics such as environmental catastrophe of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the 9/11 tragedy. Family Matters takes up most of the floor and ranges from charcoal pieces to bright paintings. Every piece is tender and truthful in its depiction of the women in her family.

One painting in particular, “Memory of Mother in Her Apartment at Dusk,” displays a layered deep purple skyline beyond a window. The artist’s mother stands to the side of the frame next to a work table, as if waiting for her daughter to finish capturing the scene. The viewer is brought into the small world created by the pot of flowers and the lamp on the table, but the city world outside that enclosed space is just as important. One world cannot be appreciated without the presence of the other; the world outside holds infinite possibilities because there is the small, safe place to land.

Each of the women in Hodes’ work is shown in what the viewer must assume is their natural state. Hodes captures

their expressions before they alter them to a more socially acceptable state. One of the more striking pieces, “Metamorphosis,” a charcoal and pastel work, is also the only nude. The rest of her work involves bundled-up figures, with bodily shapes obscured by many layers and robes. In “Metamorphosis,” however, the middle-aged subject sits directly facing the viewer with hands folded, mouth neutral, in an attitude of complete acceptance of femininity without pretense.

When Hodes’ pieces include motherly figures fully clothed, however, the result is somehow more intimate. Each moment captured is relatable for every person with a mother or a grandmother. For the series of works entitled “My Mother Three Times,” the viewer peers through three doorways into a small apartment kitchen. The mother figure bends over the stove and the counter, unaware of any other living thing. This is not a depiction of the ultimate maternal moment in the kitchen; it is a true moment of a woman in her private life. The viewer is a voyeur; the woman does not look up or perform for others.

One of Hodes’ brightest paintings, “Mother in Her Orange Robe,” is a perfect moment in time. Unlike her other pieces, the subject, “Mother,” is almost smiling. Her hand grips the edge of a counter and seems to walk toward the viewer. There is a suggestion of possibility of motion in her other hand, resting actively by her side in the painting.

Hodes creates warmth in this work not just in the color palette of the orange robe but in the feeling inevitable in the viewer that they will be welcomed into this woman’s world.

Part of Hodes’ feminism in her work is that she does not shy away from wrinkles or imperfections in the women.

There is more strength in slight vulnerability than in smooth skin. Her paintings and charcoal drawings are like magnifying glasses that the viewer uses to peer into a delicate moment. However, even more beauty exists if the viewer makes a mental connection between Hodes’ family, and the viewer’s own memories of maternal figures.

THREE-IN-ONE: This triptych work, entitled “My Mother Three Times,” includes three charcoal, Conté and pastel drawings from 1989.

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MUSEUM

Photography challenges cultural notions

Photo Courtesy of Lalla Essaydi and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

GOLDEN BEAUTY: ‘Bullets Revisited,’ by Lalla Essaydi, is a triptych photo series conveying the ongoing violence in the Arab World.

Photo Courtesy of Rania Matar, Carroll and Sons, Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: This work, ‘Alia, Beirut, Lebanon’ was taken by Rania Matar in 2010. It is currently on display as part of an exhibit about women in the Arab world at the Museum of Fine Arts.

By KIRAN GILL

JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will deconstruct the Western world’s preconceived notions of the Arab world with the exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World. Utilizing the work of a dozen female photographers from Iran and other Arabic countries, the exhibit works to create a multi-layered narrative. With over 90 photographs and two videos, one could easily feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of images. Yet the curator, Kristen Gresh, organizes the images into three sub-themes: Constructing Identities, Deconstructing Orientalism and New Documentary.

Constructing Identities explores contemporary identity in a region that is in flux. Rania Matar’s series A Girl and her Room offers intimate portraits of young women on the cusp of womanhood. Cocooned within the safe space of their bedrooms, these adolescent females are introspective in their highly distinct spaces. Though each photograph is unique and personal to the subject, as a whole the series highlights the shared, collective experience of transitioning into adulthood in the urban context.

While Matar’s series offers her lens to growing pains, Newsha Tavakolian’s fine art photography series Listen showcases the faces of professional female singers. These women are comfortable as singers, yet are forbidden from publically performing in Iran. While a dichotomy exists between the public and private personas of these women, they are, in this one instance, beautifully frozen in a moment of rapture. Eyes closed, lips parted, heads covered and total-

ly absorbed in singing, these women are not only unconscious of the glittery, glamorous backdrop behind them—but are also completely defined by the act of singing. The power of these women’s singing voices are diminished in the public sphere.

Likewise, while viewing the images, we, as viewers, are incapable of hearing the voices of these women, but are nonetheless impressed by both the beauty and purity of their talent through the photographs before us.

She Who Tells a Story also grapples with the lasting legacy of Orientalism. The Orientalist tradition developed as a result of European and North American intellectuals’ and artists’ romanticized fantasies of the lands to the East. In the 21st century, Lalla Essaydi revisits the exotic, female other in her triptych Bullets Revisited. Rather than depicting the famous odalisque, Essaydi’s subject lays flat across a bed. At first glance, one is captivated by the intricate gold and silver motifs that cover the wall, the floor and the bed. Yet, a closer inspection reveals that the gold and silver decorations are actually bullet casings. By using bullet casings Essaydi is able to not only refer to the current physical violence in the Arab world but also comment on the cultural violence and wounds of the seemingly benign Orientalist tradition. In that moment, when the viewer realizes the ornamentation in the imposing triptych is bullet casings, the entire power of the piece changes as it takes greater significance. This is no longer a sexualized image of an Arab woman. This is a response to cultural, structural and direct violence.

Meanwhile, New Documentary explores the various ways the medium of photography is being used to represent the current political

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and social climate of Iran and the Arab world. In the series NIL, NIL

by Shadi Ghadirian, the public and private, female and male, are juxtaposed in photographs that connote the style of still life paintings. A light and vibrant silk scarf is hung next to a clunky, grey metal hard hat. Atop a dining room table, a fruit basket masks the hiding grenade. This series, which combines the soft elements of the domestic space with the hard and cold objects of war, questions how the two extremes can coexist in one space.

In an equally surprising series of photographs, Women of Gaza

by Tanya Habjouqa, the artist explores how the inhabitants of occupied Gaza experience everyday life while living in such a confined and limiting space. The images are not depressing or upsetting. They are the opposite. Infused with wonder and joy, viewers gaze at a young girl soaring into the air on a swing in her garden. Another woman eagerly turns her camera toward the viewer and a gaggle of girls take to the sea as they giggle and water sprays into their faces.

She Who Tells a Story runs until Jan. 12, 2014 and also features the following artists: Jananne AlAni, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam and Shirin Neshat. Photographed by women from Iran and the Arab world, these images capture the moments and tell the stories that are forgotten in the everyday news of the world. With the aid of their cameras and the various facets of Iranian and Arab culture and life at their hands these women photographers are able to display the stories and voices of a people who are frequently misunderstood and misrepresented.

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Brandeis TALKS

TOPof the

ARTS ON VIEW: SUKKOT

CHARTS

Quote of the week

Top 10s for the week ending September 23 BOX OFFICE

“Administrators can do a lot to change what is happening on our campuses. We need to stop excusing sexual aggression, stop excusing ourselves for not knowing what to do; we need to take action here.”

1. Prisoners 2. Insidious: Chapter 2 3. The Family 4. Instructions Not Included 5. Battle of the Year 3D 6. We’re the Millers 7. Lee Daniels’ The Butler 8. Riddick 9. The Wizard of Oz: An IMAX 3D Experience 10. Planes in 3D

— Peggy Barrett, director of prevention and innovation at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.

(News, p. 1)

What is your favorite hidden spot on campus?

NYT BESTSELLERS

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Jesse Freeman ’14 “There’s a little bench in the woods near the science building. It’s a nice place to go and sit to clear your head.”

IN THE SAME VEIN: Justice Photography Editor Olivia Pobiel ’15 couldn’t believe it when she captured this photograph of a leaf of lettuce on a lightbox with a macro lens during the time off for the Sukkot holiday.

NEXT Issue’s PHOTO CONTEST THEME: ALMOST ILLEGAL Submit your creative photo to photos@thejustice.org to be featured in the Justice!

CROSSWORD Munis Safajou ’16 “There’s a pathway if you walk behind the round English building, near where the math building joins G-zang. It’s really quiet and peaceful.”

Ryan Jordan ’15 “There’s a room in the castle called the Graffiti Room. It is full of quotes and paintings and cool stuff like that. Every time I go there I’m amazed by what I see.”

Dora Chi ’16 “There is a really peaceful bamboo garden no one knows about. It’s in Mandel up a couple flights of stairs, down a hallway and through a magical door, leading to this magical garden.”

ACROSS 1 Least ancient 7 Some TVs 11 This second, briefly 14 Forward, to Fiorello 15 City SW of Buffalo 16 Christian sch. since 1963 17 Extra effort 19 Shoofly __ 20 Skittish NBC show?

21 “That’s rich!” evoker 23 Jellied item in British cuisine 25 “Days of Grace” memoirist 26 Relaxed 27 GRE components 30 Doubter’s question 32 Note promising notes 33 Letter-routing letters 36 Big-eared flier of film 40 Take on responsibility 43 Finish 44 It may be spare 45 “Progress through Technology” automaker 46 “Awesome!”

48 Original Speed Stick maker 50 Awesome, in a way 53 Used to be 56 Giant of note 57 It usually involves rapping 60 Rock’s __ Fighters 63 Maker of Steel kitchen products 64 Filing option, or what can be found in four long answers?

66 Beret, e.g.

67 __ Accords: 1993 agreement 68 Having trouble 69 Charles V’s domain: Abbr.

70 Light submachine gun 71 Forgetful, maybe DOWN 1 Murphy’s and Godwin’s, for two 2 Shakespeare’s flower?

3 Carving area 4 It’s bigger than the neg.

5 Unwavering 6 Buster Brown’s dog 7 Causes a stink 8 Collide with 9 Where the slain roll?

10 “I __ beautiful city...”: Dickens 11 Dad 12 Preserves, in a way 13 Editor’s request 18 Genetic letters 22 Prone to snits 24 Grab a sandwich, perhaps 27 65-Down shade

—Compiled by Olivia Pobiel/the Justice

Nonfiction

1. Si-Cology 1 — Si Robertson with Mark Schlabach 2. Still Foolin’ ’Em — Billy Crystal 3. The Liberty Amendments — Mark R. Levin 4. Empty Mansions — Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr. 5. Zealot — Reza Aslan

iTUNES

1. Katy Perry — “Roar” 2. Robin Thicke — “Blurred Lines” 3. Lady Gaga — “Applause” 4. Miley Cyrus — “We Can’t Stop” 5. Luke Bryan — “Crash My Party”

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BILLBOARD

28 Women 29 __ Miguel: Azores island 31 Suffix with ox34 Like many a brisk 45-minute walk 35 General on a menu 37 View from Tokyo 38 Wished 39 Valhalla chief 41 Reuters competitor 42 “I wonder ...”

47 Breakfast cereal magnate 49 With 50-Down, when modern mammals emerged 50 See 49-Down 51 “Brave” studio 52 “Fingers crossed” 54 Bad sentence 55 Round no.

58 Parts of la cara 59 1978 Booker Prize recipient Murdoch 61 Kind of exam 62 “I got it” 65 Darken in a salon

1. Keith Urban — Fuse 2. The Weeknd — Kiss Land 3. 2 Chainz — B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME 4. Luke Bryan — Crash My Party 5. Janelle Monae — The Electric Lady 6. Arctic Monkeys — AM 7. Sheryl Crow — Feels Like Home 8. Tamar Braxton — Love and War 9. Ariana Grande — Yours Truly 10. John Legend — Love In The Future Top of the Charts information provided

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

STAFF’S TOP TEN

Senior Shoutout

By ADAM RABINOWITZ Justice editoR

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.

Rachel Starr ’15 “If I tell you it won’t remain hidden!”

Fiction 1. W is for Wasted — Sue Grafton 2. Never Go Back — Lee Child 3. The Cuckoo’s Calling — Robert Galbraith 4. The Mayan Secrets — Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry 5. Inferno — Dan Brown

Solution to last issue’s sudoku

Sudoku Copyright 2012 MCT Campus, Inc.

Even though it’s only September, I can’t help but already be nostalgic about my Brandeis experience.

It seems like just yesterday that I was a first-year heading to Shapiro Hall. Three years later, I’m a senior, (ironically) back in Shapiro as a CA, and ready to make the most of my last year.

Meanwhile, here are the songs that have followed me throughout college!

THE LIST 1. Rob Thomas — “Someday” 2. J. Cole — “Crooked Smile” ft.

TLC 3. Kanye West — “All of the Lights” 4. Third Eye Blind — “Can’t Get Away” 5. Vertical Horizon — “Everything You Want” 6. Mat Kearney — “Runaway Car” 7. Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis — “Can’t Hold Us” 8. Goo Goo Dolls — “Big Machine” 9. Christina Perri — “A Thousand Years” 10. Augustana — “Boston”