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Students walk out in remembrance of Parkland

By Celia Young and Hannah Schuster editors

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STUDENT WALK OUT Josh

Moll ‘19 reads the names of students killed in Parkland, FL at an event organized by Brandeis

Never Again.

Hundreds of Brandeis students gathered around Chapels Pond at noon Wednesday to stand in solidarity with victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and to express support for gun control reform.

Attendees filed in along a narrow path and spread out around the heart-shaped pond. The crowd held a 17-minute moment of silence to signify the 17 lives lost in Parkland, FL exactly one month prior. At the start of each minute, Josh Moll ’19 read the name of a victim.

The newly formed group, Brandeis Never Again, organized this event as part of the National School Walkout, joining thou-

sands of students across the country who walked out of class to demand legislative action on gun control.

Brandeis Never Again began with two students, Renee Korgood ’20, and Sagie Tviezer ’19, who began contacting students at Brandeis, as well as the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, about possible actions to support gun control reform. The organization now has 12 main members with a listserv of about 40 people, according to Korgood, and is planning five upcoming events to support gun control and the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

National walkouts were scheduled for 10 a.m. on March 14, but Tuesday night, Brandeis announced that there would be a See NEVER AGAIN, page 4

Candidates run for Student Union in spring elections

By Hannah Schuster, Emily Sorkin Smith and Celia Young editors

Students are running for seven positions on the Student Union in the first round of spring elections.

This week, The Hoot interviewed the candidates for president, vice

president and junior representative to the Board of Trustees.

Hannah Brown, President Hannah Brown ’19, this year’s Student Union Vice President, is running unopposed for president, having served on the Union since her first year at Brandeis. Brown was the North Quad senator her freshman year and served as chair

of the Dining Committee in the spring. During her sophomore year, she was a Class of 2019 senator as well as the Executive Senator and chair of the Services and Outreach Committee.

Brown’s role as vice president involves holding office hours, attending e-board meetings and leading weekly Senate meetings.

She also meets regularly with administrators and works on the

Union’s major initiatives. This year, Brown is also chair of the Union’s constitutional review committee.

Over the past three years, Brown has been involved with projects like the Midnight Buffet, a large-scale Union tradition. She introduced vendor sponsorships that helped reduce the event’s cost and invited student performers to make the night more enjoyable.

Brown also helped organize the first spring shuttles to and from campus for April break last year and contributed two new Union bylaws: one establishing an international student senator an the other, the Senate Health and Safety Committee.

Brown has created a three-part See UNION, page 3

Faculty and students compete in ‘Hoops for Help’

By Celia Young editor

The faculty team was victorious in a faculty versus student basketball game that helped fundraise for the World of Work internship funding program (WOW), which provides stipends for students who take unpaid internships in the summer. A large student and faculty crowd attended the basketball game on Thursday, March 14 in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.

Students who made a donation received a T-shirt. Last year, 49 students received WOW grants

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of up to $5,000, according to the Hiatt Career Center website. The Hoops for Help fundraiser will benefit the Internship Access Campaign, a fund which aims to support high-need students such as international students, students who entered Brandeis under DACA and low-income students.

There is also an online fundraiser.

The faculty team was comprised of professors as well as administrators, most notably Dean of Students Jamele Adams. The student team was composed of students on the Brandeis basketball team, students from the Toxic MajorSee HOOPS FOR HELP page 2

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HOOPS FOR HELP

Rock

Page 2 Page 11 Climbing Page 15 Rock climbing team Page 8 reaches new heights.

EDITORIAL: Support Hannah Brown for president Page 10 FEATURES: PAGE 7 News: Ethics Center celebrates 20 years Ops: Corporations are not people Arts: The Young Fathers release new album Sports: Runner Emily Bryson first at NCAAs

Basketball player Joelle MarkAnthony scores a point for the student team at “Hoops for Help.”

‘Celo’ Marcelo Brociner connects through hip-hop ARTS: PAGE 13

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International Center for Ethics celebrates 20th anniversary with symposium and performance

By Sabrina Chow and Olivia Ellson staff

The International Center for Ethics celebrated its 20th anniversary on Monday, March 12, with the event “A Powerful Fire: Performances to Energize Our Next 20 Years,” which contained a variety of performers, panelists and a symposium.

Seventeen Brandeis students, faculty, administrators and guests gathered for the symposium: “Democracies in Peril: The Role of the University.” Panelists addressed issues such as anti-intellectualism and its threat to higher education, the role of colleges and universities in both widening and closing gaps of inequality and whether educators have a duty to instill democratic values and knowledge into their students. The panel also touched on key issues including the debate on free speech and safe spaces.

“A Powerful Fire” was hosted by Dean of Students, Jamele Adams, and celebrated those involved in the International Center. Performers of the night included Voices of Today, Marcelo Brociner ’18, Elizabeth Bradfield and Germaine Ingram. Dr. Babu Ayindo was scheduled to perform but was unable to due to the impending snow storm.

Jay Kaufman, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, brought up the negative effects of fear, including those of “international terrorism, rising sea levels, and climate change.”

“We’re profoundly threatened as a way of life that we have known, is a way of life no more,” Kaufman said, “and it is not unprecedented to go crouch in cover in the face of that global threat.”

Another panelist, the president of Wheelock College, David Chard, responded by bringing up the importance of discontent in democracy and in inciting general progress.

After a short break, the panel reconvened, and began with addressing the role of universities in engaging students in the democratic process. Elaine Wong, Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, mentioned the recent

changes to Brandeis’ General Education requirements that were intended to include skills for civic engagement in the curriculum as an integral part of a Brandeis education. “[The university’s] biggest resource is the students,” said Ángela María Pérez Mejía, a member of the Ethics Center’s International Advisory Board and the Chief Cultural Manager of Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia.

“And the students have a lot of answers, and have a connection with the outside world that can be very helpful.”

The panel went on to discuss the need for student agency over their own education and the creation of opportunities for students to get involved and have their voices heard.

Panelists referenced Brandeis’ history of social justice and the continuation of that legacy through the 2015 Ford Hall student movement and student involvement in the national #NeverAgain movement for gun control. The panel concluded with a question and answer session.

After each panelist gave a short closing remark, everyone was invited to attend the reception in Shapiro Academic Complex Atrium, after which they would attend the next event, “A Powerful Fire: Performances to Energize Our Next 20 Years.”

Adams gave a brief introduction, saying, “one of the wonderful reasons we’re here this evening is to celebrate 20 years of majesty… 20 years of whole movement, progression, and doing the unexpected and making it expected.”

Voices of Today opened and closed the event. Jane Sapp, a musician who specializes in gospel music in the southern United States and music of the Civil Rights Movement, was joined by two of her former students, Michael Carter and OJ Martori, to form the trio. As a musician who travels all across the United States, many of Sapp’s lyrics come from students she has worked with over the years, merely adding music to the lyrics.

Their first piece was “I’m gonna let it shine,” and the audience joined in at the chorus. The next song, “If I had the world in my hands,” was inspired by the com-

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ments of fifth, sixth and seventh graders whom Sapp had met in one of her classes. The layout of the song revolved around the students’ responses to the prompt: “If I had the world in my hands…”

Students responded with phrases like “I would want to keep it for myself,” or “I’d respect it like my mother.”

Sapp will be releasing a collection of stories and songs through Brandeis University Press in Spring 2019, written by young people across the U.S. as a resource for music educators and activists. “The Ethics center has welcomed us. Given us a platform to be heard and learn from the work we’re doing,” said Sapp during her performance.

The next performer, Brociner, has been involved with the Ethics Center since his first semester at Brandeis. “Freshman year I took an introductory class for the Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation (CAST) Minor, which is housed within the Ethics center,” Brociner said. “The most concrete way that the Ethics Cen-

ter has been pivotal for me was through the Sorensen Fellowship, an amazing opportunity for me to pursue a huge dream of mine, doing an exhibition in Vietnam.

The Ethics center was amazing in helping me preparing me for that journey as well as unpacking that journey afterwards with the book that my cohort wrote. They really helped me digest that experience of being abroad as an artist and activist.” Brociner performed two poems that related to his experiences in Vietnam, presenting an art exhibition of his Cuban grandfather’s depictions of the Vietnam war.

Next, Bradfield, who is an author and environmentalist, recited a few poems revolving around issues of environmental confusion. Her first poem, entitled “Misapprehensions of Nature,” told an anecdote about a video that came out in 2008 that speaks about two men who released their pet tiger into the wild, and upon contacting the tiger years later, it remembered them.

The next performer, Ingram,

is a member of the International Advisory Board of International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life (IMPACT) and on the steering committee. Ingram performed an interpretive dance piece, representing the detrimental effects of the water crisis within the U.S. and the world. Ingram also referenced the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and Cape Town, South Africa to highlight the need for change.

Ayindo, the current artist-in-residence at the Ethics center, was unable to attend due to the snow storm. Voices of Today was the final performance. They concluded the ceremony with three songs, “There is a bright side somewhere,” “One note won’t make harmony” and “There’s a river flowing in my soul.”

The final piece included all of the audience members singing a piece in a round of three. The whole atrium was filled with voices singing, “We have come too far, we won’t turn around, we’ll fund the streets with justice. We are freedom bound.”

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ette Dance Line, Student Union president Jacob Edelman ’18 and others.

The game kicked off with the emcees, Kwesi Jones ’20, Cyril Ojlere ’21 and Rachel McAllister ’21, introducing themselves as Brandeis Beacons, undergraduate student ambassadors and school spirit leaders who sponsored the event. The game was co-sponsored by the Beacons and the undergraduate Student Union.

After the first quarter, the score was faculty 10 and students four.

During the break, Jones, Ojilere and McAllister led a trivia game with the crowd. The game was DJed by DJ Ekenedilichukwu Uwanaka ’21, whose stage name is DJ Ekenomics.

During the second quarter, the

score shot up to faculty 21 and students 17.

During the first half, students were amused by some of the antics by the faculty team, whose coach loudly sounded a megaphone during a student’s free throw shot, and Dean of Students Jamele Adams, who exaggerated a fall for a free throw.

During the halftime show, students competed in a game of musical chairs for a $50 dollar gift card, and Toxic performed.

In the third quarter the students gained a slight lead but the faculty ultimately came back to a score of 34, faculty and 32, students.

During the third period, students were again asked trivia questions, this time about who Brandeis was almost named after. The answer was Albert Einstein.

During the third period break, Roland Blainding ’21 compet-

ed and won $500 as he made a layup, free throw, three pointer and half court shot in under a minute. He was received by the audience with cheers and shock from the emcees.

The last period was neck-inneck, with the score tied at 37all at the three-minute mark.

The emcees asked a final trivia question, about what item Leo Gerstenzang, whom the Science Library is named after, invented (Q-tips).

With one minute left on the clock, the students had a two point lead. In a final two-pointer, the faculty tied the game 39 all, and it went into three-minute overtime. Students got the tip off, but Adams made the first shot with a layup. The faculty ultimately triumphed with a final score of 48-faculty to 46-students.

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platform. She is holding office hours around campus during the campaign and created an online comment form. One component of her platform is focused on the affordability of Brandeis, not just regarding tuition, but the “nickeling and diming” that she sees on campus, such as overdue library fees, for example.

In fall 2016, a marketing analyst reviewed Brandeis and found its alumni were far less likely to promote Brandeis than is typical. In thinking about what impacts students’ perception of the school, “what came to me immediately was all these unnecessary fines,” said Brown in an interview with The Brandeis Hoot.

An example came this fall, when the Department of Community Living (DCL) announced that students who got locked out of their room more than two times would be fined $10 each subsequent time. Brown and Student Union President Jacob Edelman ’18 met with Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Tim Touchette, and DCL decided not to enforce the policy.

Brown ”will work to eliminate fines as a form of punishment and will work to institute more productive means of reconciliation,” according to her platform.

She also notes the costs of laundry and printing. Earlier this year, Union members explored the whether Brandeis could offer some quantity of free or subsidized printing. They were told it was not feasible financially, but Brown may try to pick up this project; she proposed making even a student’s first 10 printed pages free. Brown also argues professors could use textbooks available in the public domain.

Brown further hopes to continue a more than year long Union conversation about student labor and how working one or multiple part-time jobs can impact students’ education and ability to be involved on campus. Brown said that in this conversation, ideas range from offering stipends to students in leadership roles or

service clubs to ensuring needbased aid is strong enough that students do not have to work too much.

“All students should be given the opportunity to participate fully in campus life, regardless of financial situation,” Brown wrote on her platform, “This can be achieved through creating needbased stipends for some currently unpaid positions on campus.”

The Student Union Senate is responsible for chartering new clubs, and this year, the Union adopted a new, more complex chartering process. “The barriers to entry to becoming a club are very high, and the barriers to staying a club are very low,” said Brown, who thinks they should be more even.

She also wants to encourage more collaboration between clubs. “Something about Brandeis is we’re all stretched very thin, and allowing this collaboration gives everybody more resources and hands on deck,” she said.

Another priority for Brown is “connecting and collaborating” with the administration. She gives Edelman a lot of credit for developing strong relationships with administrators this year.

The Union operates on hard and soft power, Brown explained. The hard power is anything they can accomplish with their own resources, but the soft power comes into play with the bigger picture items that require administrative support.

“The more you have relationships, the more they’ll come to you. You certainly have to prove yourself before they’ll listen to you,” said Brown.

The ongoing series of open forums, on topics like public safety and campus mental health, is an example of what can come from productive relations, Brown expressed. They are also an opportunity for students and administrators to engage with each other.

“It’s been a great learning experience for both sides,” said Brown of the forms, citing the mental health panel on March 1, where students called on the BCC to improve its communication efforts.

Brown has also pledged to continue the Union’s work on diversity and inclusion, maintaining the Union Diversity Officer position and supporting education and training for Union members and within the student body. Other items on her campaign platform include advocating for greater accessibility on campus and working with the Health Center, Counseling Center and the Care Team to “improve their communication, accessibility and outreach with students.”

Vice President Aaron Finkel Aaron Finkel ’20 is a Senator-at-Large, as well as the Executive Senator and the chair of the Services and Outreach committee this year. He was first elected to the Student Union as the Massell Quad Senator in Fall 2016 and served as chair of the Campus Operations Working Group (COW-G) last spring.

Finkel has expressed concerns about student life in the past, including the number of student clubs and student dissatisfaction with Brandeis social life. “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard ‘there’s nothing going on that’s fun,’” Finkel told The Brandeis Hoot. Despite weekly “What’s Happening at Brandeis” emails from Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes, Finkel believes students are unaware of fun activities or don’t feel the events suit their needs.

Finkel hopes to work with the Senate’s Club Support Committee to improve the Union’s club chartering process. During past club votes, such as the Union’s decision not to charter the Jewish Feminist Association at Brandeis (JFAB), Finkel has argued that increasing number of clubs serve to divide the Brandeis community. “I want to make sure we are united … sometimes things can seem a little disconnected,” Finkel said.

The Union, he said, should be focused on “supporting existing clubs so that they put on successful events that are well attended

and well advertised.” Finkel plans to support clubs and student life through partnerships with administrators and building community relations.

Benedikt Reynolds Benedikt Reynolds ’19 plans to address unpaid student labor and build a culture of sustainability and community if elected as Student Union Vice President. Reynolds is the chair of the Senate Sustainability Committee and Class of 2019 Senator.

Reynolds has worked with the Department of Community Living (DCL) to create sustainability programs. During this year’s Midyear Orientation, the Sustainability committee collaborated with new students and DCL staff to encourage recycling and other sustainability-related practices like turning off lights and reducing waste. He is working on a Sustainability Ambassador program to offer students academic credit or a stipend for on-campus sustainability projects.

Reynolds hopes to address student positions with BEMCo and SSIS, services he feels are essential to the university but do not pay their employees. Only students who can afford to work for free can participate and students who must take paid positions are denied important leadership opportunities, Reynolds argued. He plans to continue his work to create a framework for paying students involved in services like BEMCo and SSIS and open up these activities to students regardless of their financial standing.

Vidit Dhawan Vidit Dhawan ’19 plans to talk with students in the Senate, Union and students at Brandeis to understand what the students want out of the next Union administration if elected vice president. Dhawan is the student senator for the class of 2019.

Dhawan has worked as a senator on a disability project to provide audio cues on crosswalks for blind students. A budget has been

approved by the administration for his initiative, and the project is awaiting installation. Dhawan also works on the Club Support Committee, which decides whether or not clubs are chartered, and is on the allocations board which allocates money to clubs.

Dhawan is the undergraduate representative to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, which reviewed the new general education requirements that last year’s undergraduate committee decided on.

If elected, Dhawan hopes to increase student awareness of campus activities, and would contact club representatives to create a “priority list” for the Student Union’s future actions. Dhawan’s main goal, if elected to the vice presidency, is to better address student needs.

Zosia Buse Junior Rep to the Board of Trustees Zosia Busé ’20, director of the Office of Student Rights and Advocacy (OSRA), is running unopposed for the Junior Representative to the Board of Trustees. The position is a two-year commitment with junior representatives becoming senior representatives at the end of their first year. Students must be rising juniors to run for the position.

Busé hopes to raise issues of accessibility on campus and encourage student testimony in front of the Board of Trustees. She also hopes to improve access to the Brandeis Counseling Center (BCC), including addressing lack of communication between BCC administrators and the student body.

In her first year as Junior Representative, Busé would “create a more stable connection between the Board and the student body,” she explained in an interview with The Hoot. Though the trustees are only on campus for short periods of time, Busé hopes to create a meaningful relationship with them by introducing herself immediately and staying in contact with the trustees. Busé is also the Vice Chair of ’DEIS Impact.

Univ. hosts panel on sexual harassment

By Ariella Gentin staff

The panel, “From #MeToo to #nomore,” addressed ways in which students can respond to issues of sexual harassment in the workplace now and in the future.

The panel was sponsored by the Brandeis Rape Crisis Center, the Hiatt Career Center and the Gender and Sexuality Center and took place Monday, March 13.

The #MeToo movement is a social media campaign designed to promote awareness of the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault, both in general and in the workplace. The movement spurred women to share their own stories of sexual assault and harassment, including many well known women in different fields.

Monday night’s event aimed to explain the prevalence of sexual misconduct and articulate how to handle it when it occurs.

The event featured both a panel and then an audience activity.

The panel included Cynthia Farquhar, the training specialist in the Brandeis Office of Human Resources; Elena Louis, the director of the Student Support Services Program (SSP) and an Ombuds

staff member at Brandeis; and Eliza Campbell, the Community Engagement Specialist at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC). Sarah Berg, the director of Sexual Assault Services and Prevention at Brandeis, moderated the panel.

The speakers first addressed the question of how to deal with sexual harassment or assault as a victim, especially in the workplace, each offering their own advice.

Arquhaur made the point that if people feel comfortable directly addressing the person making them feel harassed, they should feel empowered to do so, but if that doesn’t feel safe, there are other options besides confrontation.

Louis emphasized that there are resources for students at Brandeis, including the Ombuds office. In particular, Louis made it clear that the Ombuds office does not get involved in a formal reporting or complaint processes. Rather, Ombuds staff can help students brainstorm about options for victims and explain how the process of making a report works. A report itself could be filed with the Title IX coordinator at Brandeis.

“What’s good about Obmuds is that we don’t get involved in for-

mal processes. We’re not an advocate. We’re not somebody who takes sides. We can look at a situation from a bird’s eye view and offer some feedback,” said Louis.

Campbell spoke about the need to take care of your own wellbeing in a case of sexual harassment or assault in the workplace. She explained the struggle that some women face who choose not to report harassment or assault if they need their job to support their family or if they otherwise really enjoy their job. It is important for companies, Campbell said, to have both a resource for report harassment or assault as well as a confidential resource for emotional support.

In terms of what she would say to a victim of harassment or assault in the workplace, Campbell said, “It’s a really crappy situation to be put in because you’re making really difficult choices…often there’s not an easy clear path of what to do and what you can do. And you have a right in those situations to prioritize your own wellbeing and comfort.”

The second question that panelists addressed was how to avoid being a bystander in a workplace.

Farquhar encouraged intervening directly or reporting the behavior.

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Campbell spoke about creating a workplace where even smaller examples of sexual harassment, like inappropriate jokes, are not tolerated.

The second part of the event was an activity for all of the attendees.

Each table was given a different case of sexual harassment in the workplace and discussed how to handle that scenario before their analyses with the rest of the audience.

For example, one table discussed what do if a coworker has a computer background of a nude model. Students shared their opinions on how power dynamics,

gender and other factors might influence how to handle that situation. Other scenarios presented involved asking co-workers about their dating lives or handling a boss who seems to want to spend more time with you than the rest of the office.

Afterwards, panelists offered a few words of advice and reminded attendees they have the power to make the changes they want to see.

Louis encouraged audience members to remember, “Your voice matters. It really can make a difference, even if you’re just one person.”

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delayed opening at 11 a.m. the next day due to snow. Student organizers conferred with each other and decided to push back the time, both for safety reasons and to maximize the number of people on campus.

“We thought that while it would be powerful to participate in the national movement, it would likely be more powerful if we could show that many, many members of the Brandeis community were as committed to this as we were,” said Korgood.

Students from Brandeis Never Again were in contact with Provost Lisa Lynch about their plans.

On March 8, Lynch emailed the faculty informing them of the walkout and providing contact information for Brandeis Never Again. There was no official university guidance on how professors should address students who miss class for the event, though student organizers reached out to many Brandeis department heads and encouraged them to be lenient.

Moll, who read the names at the walkout, is from Parkland. His brother, Jake, attends the Parkland high school and was in a building next to where the shooting occured. Because of his experience, Moll has become more involved in pressing for gun control reform, and has focused on organizing the walkout and Brandeis’ participation in “March for Our Lives” on March 24.

“I think several times a day, every day … what it would have been like if it was me who had to be flying to Florida to go bury my relative,” Moll said. “And I think that it’s important that as a country, regardless of your Republican, Democratic standing, anything— that as a country you have to come together to honor these people.”

“I would want someone to do it for me,” he continued. “This country is a community, as a community we have to stand with these people and let them know

that they’re not alone and that the world has not just forgotten what happened to their family member … You have to keep the conversation alive.”

Moll will bring the poster that students signed during the walkout back to Parkland when he returns for spring break, and it will hang inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas. At the walk-out, Moll concluded by saying, “Only together can we prevent a tragedy like this from happening again …

Today we stand in solidarity with Parkland, never again.” Students then chanted “never again,” before filing out of Chapels Pond.

Brandeis Never Again has planned a series of upcoming events to support gun control reform. First, they are hosting a discussion on activism with Ruth Nemzoff, a scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, which was rescheduled for Monday, March 19 at 7 p.m. due to the snow storm.

The group will also be hosting tabling sessions in the SCC where students can call or write to their representatives. The table will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. from March 19 through 23.

There will be a “Moment of Loudness” at the Light of Reason on Wednesday, March 21 which Korgood is working to coordinate. The Moment of Loudness is expected to feature student and faculty performances and to contrast the moment of silence held Wednesday.

“A moment of silence is you honor them and you remember them and you stand in solidarity,” Korgood said. “A moment of loudness is you stand up and you speak out for what you believe in.”

The Moment of Loudness is also set for the same day as Brandeis’ first active shooter training, which will test the university’s emergency preparedness by simulating an active shooter situation in the library.

This was an intentional choice of date, said Moll. “Students can’t go into the library to continue being educated for a day because we

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have to train our [university] on how they’re going to apprehend someone running through our school shooting people with an assault rifle … So yes, I think it is intentional that they are close to each other,” Moll said.

Moll explained he wasn’t pointing blame at the university. “Until policy changes, it’s very important that our [university] knows how to cope with and deal with an active shooter situation … It could happen here as much as anywhere else. But I do think that we’re using that to show that it’s prevalent, that it’s important to keep protesting to prevent an active shooter situation from reoccurring,” he said.

Finally, Brandeis Never Again is working to organize shuttle

transport to the March for Our Lives on Saturday, March 24.

Organizers are trying to arrange additional buses from campus to downtown Boston for the rally as well as shuttles to the Riverside T-station. There will be 743 events worldwide that day, according to the March For Our Lives website.

A member of Brandeis Never Again, Amanda Kahn ’20, spoke about the need for change in the wake of Parkland. Kahn is from Newtown, CT, where, in 2012, a gunman killed 27 people, most of them first-graders, at Sandy Hook Elementary.

“We haven’t seen change in the five years since then,” said Khan, but she argued this time felt different. “It feels different because the students [from Parkland] are

speaking out the way they are, and it seems like it’s really going to make a change,” she said.

With other past shootings, Korgood said, “people were like ‘you can’t act on this, you can’t politicize this,’ and then the first thing Parkland students said after was, ‘politicize this...make change out of this.’”

In the days following the shooting, Parkland students spoke out on news networks, marched to the statehouse in Tallahassee and confronted Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and an NRA representative at a CNN town hall.

The national movement that resulted from the shooting in Parkland, FL has spread to cities across the United States, and is primarily fueled by high schoolers.

Brandeis Democrats hosts voter registration drive

By Celia Young editor

Brandeis Democrats hosted a voter registration drive in the library last Friday where students could register to vote in their state and learn about their state’s primary elections. Two a cappella groups, Proscenium and Up the Octave performed at the registration drive. The Brandeis Demo-

crats will be hosting another voter registration drive on April 19.

The Brandeis Democrats hosted the event, but it was co-sponsored by Brandeis Conservatives, Brandeis Pro-Choice and the Media and Politics Leader Scholar Community (LSC). The drive was funded by the Social Justice and Social Policy (SJSP) Brenda Meehan Social-Justice-In-Action grant that the Brandeis Democrats applied for early in the

spring semester.

During the drive, anyone stopping by the library could pick up information about their state’s primary elections, research that was overseen by Miriam Berro Krugman ’20, the Brandeis Democrats president as of this year.

According to Krugman, about 15 to 20 people attended the drive to register for voting in their state, and others came to get information about primary elections.

Krugman was excited about the a cappella show, “We just thought it would be nice, it would bring people in, it would be a fun environment for people to register to vote in,” she said. Krugman is a member of Up the Octave. The drive also gave out lemonade and cookies to those who came to register.

In co-sponsoring the event with multiple clubs, organizers hoped to garner attendance from stu-

dents of all political leanings, according to Krugman.

“We thought that co-sponsoring would be great because it increases volunteers, it increases how many people come,” said Krugman. “And if you want to come in and register as a Republican that’s fine, we just want people to register.”

Krugman is hoping the next registration drive on April 19 will be a larger event outdoors.

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Double trouble: Students major in varying disciplines Riely Allen: Computer Science and Theater

By Sabrina Chow and Sara McCrea staff and editor

Lights, camera...code? Riely Allen ’18, a computer science and theater double major, with a minor in history, is no doubt one of the core definitions of a Brandeisian.

As a research university based on liberal arts values, Brandeis allows students to pursue myriad combinations of degrees, specialized to the individual.

While looking for colleges, Allen knew that he wanted to continue his theatrical career.

“I always knew I loved theater since high school when I started getting into it. I knew I had to keep doing it when I came to

college. Brandeis has a good theater program compared to other school I was looking at. But I knew that I didn’t want to only do theater. I didn’t want to be so focused on one thing,” Allen said.

Although Allen was initially interested in pursuing engineering, Brandeis’ lack of an engineering program left him in search of a new area of study. After his friend convinced him to take COSI 11a: “Programming in Java and C” with Professor Antonella DiLillo, Allen knew that computer science was the perfect medium between engineering and applicable science. Being a part of the theater and computer science departments allows him to work with both the creative and logical side of his brain, Allen said.

Allen found that having two majors without overlap to be challenging, but he also discovered many benefits. “Personally, it was really hard. It wasn’t impossible, but it was a challenge to make it fit.”

“I wonder how my life would have been different if I had just picked theater or comp sci,” Allen said. “I have friends who just focus on one and they’re a better actor or programmer than me. There has been some senior year reconciling that I’ve picked a road in between those two...I’m happy that I have both.”

When trying to figure out what majors and minors to pursue, Allen looked towards the university’s general education requirements.

During his freshman year, Allen took AMST 185b, “The Culture

of the Cold War” with Professor Stephen Whitfield, and recounts it as one of the best classes he has taken at Brandeis. This class propelled his love for history, and as he took more history classes to complete university requirements, Allen quickly realized that he had enough credits for a minor.

Within the Theater department, Allen found Professor Dmitry Troyanovsky to be one of his biggest inspirations and mentors.

“He’s amazing and a really talented individual and I’ve learned a lot from him even though I’ve only taken two classes with him,” Allen said. In the Computer Science department, Allen spoke highly of Professor R. Pito Salas and his class COSI 105b, “Software Engineering for Scalability,” which

PHOTO COURTESY RIELY ALLEN

Allen is currently enrolled in.

In his last semester at Brandeis, Allen has feels happy and fulfilled with the path he chose to take.

“If you don’t come in with a path like I did, it can be very daunting and scary to figure out how to do it all. It works out though, I promise. If you stick to it, everything will figure itself out for the most part,” Allen said. “I wouldn’t have done it any other way.”

Benedikt Reynolds: Computer Science and Anthropology

By Emily Botto and Sabrina Chow editor and staff

Benedikt Reynolds ’19 has already decided on his future career and has found a path for himself at Brandeis to accomplish his goals. Reynolds is majoring in anthropology and computer science, and is utilizing the intersection, or lack thereof, to shape a career in industrial design.

Reynolds said in an email to The Hoot that he was able to combine these two majors because Brandeis allows “students to be fluid with their curriculum.”

He didn’t come to Brandeis with this in mind, however. Instead, his choice came from his past experience with school culture, having moved 11 times as a child and been a student at many different schools. Reynolds felt that

Brandeis’ culture and students were similar to the schools he had attended which were “filled with collaborative, and cross-functional students, who believed an inclusive and friendly environment is how an individual and group prospers.” He searched for this characteristic during his college visits, and found it in Brandeis.

After deciding to attend Brandeis, Reynolds “picked the two majors that allowed me to get as close to design as possible,” he said. Reynolds uses both anthropology and computer science to build on his foundation of design knowledge. “Loosely, Anthropology is about understanding how culture affects what we value. Computer Science provides tools to take these observations and build them into a product or service. In combination, these two majors are at the foundation of design,” Reynolds said.

Anthropology plays a major

role in helping shape the person that Reynolds has become during his time at Brandeis, including his role as Senator in charge of the Senate Sustainability Committee, a Student Union-led environmental group. “Anthropology for me is to challenge the status quo, particular to understanding and influencing culture. With the committee, we work to understand what is unique about Brandeisian culture and how we can influence it with creative environmental solutions,” said Reynolds.

In regards to academics, the approach to classes is often met with the struggle to fit all the necessary classes within the max 22 credits allowed at Brandeis.

With two such different majors, one would think that maintaining a manageable class load with extracurriculars is often difficult if not impossible. But it’s a struggle worth enduring, according to Reynolds. “With

each new class, I can bring a lens from the opposite major and see things differently,” said Reynolds.

Reynolds found his love and passion for anthropology and computer science through two classes. For anthropology, Reynolds found ANTH 128b “Anthropology of Stuff ” with Professor Derek Sheridan to be extremely intriguing. “We looked at how material culture affects the way we think and behave,” said Reynolds.

In computer science, Reynolds’ favorite course was COSI 21a “Data Structures” with Professor Antonella DiLillo. “This pushed my logical reasoning and creativity through the roof,” said Reynolds.

The main difficulty with pursuing majors in departments that are polar opposites, according to Reynolds, is the lack of external resources. There are very few people who have taken Reynolds’ chosen path, so he has very little background to learn from. But he

PHOTO COURTESY BENEDIKT REYNOLDS

remains invested in his choice, saying that combining two majors is “something beautiful.”

“The most common innovations aren’t by inventing a new idea, but combining two, seemingly different ones, and doing opposite majors accelerates your thinking to do so. So my advice is to find majors that perceptively have nothing to do with each other, and push yourself to discover that that’s not the case,” Reynolds said.

Ben Rozonoyer: Computer Science and Linguistics

By Candace Ng and Polina Potochevska editors

Ben Rozonoyer ’20, thought he did not want to do anything related to math when he came to Brandeis. Now, he is a linguistics and computer science double major, and he is thinking about minoring or majoring in math.

Having multiple connections to Brandeis, including his sister and brother-in-law, Rozonoyer learned about the computer sci-

ence department and its professors from his brother-in-law, and about linguistics from his father, who was always interested in the topic. While he enjoyed literature classes in high school, combining literature with computer science in college would be difficult, but linguistics and the particular subsection of computational linguistics was very interesting for him. “[Computational linguistics involves] applying all sorts of algorithms to language, and to different problems in language,” said Rozonoyer. An example he

gave of the applicability of computational linguistics is with machine learning classifications. For example, a million movie reviews exist online but these algorithms prevent people from having to hand classify them. Rozonoyer also said that search engines make use of these strategies to extract information from sentences.

Computational linguistics is a part of the computer science department, which hints at how closely related the two subjects are. Rozonoyer explained that he is currently in a computer science

course that uses the same strategies that semantics does, a linguistics topic he studies. “Computer science is also like computer language, so you need to know about human languages,” Rozonoyer said. For example, how things are expressed are a concern both for computer scientists and linguists.

Outside of the classroom, Rozonoyer is involved in the research project “Creating a Corpus of Child Speech by Monolingual and Heritage Russian Speakers” with Prof. Sophia Alexandra Malamud (ANTH, COSI, LING,

PHIL). Malamud’s team is collecting audio files and transcripts for a one-million word corpus.

Rozonoyer assists by listening to children’s data speech and helping with the segmentation process.

As a sophomore, Rozonoyer is still unclear as to what he wants to do in the future, but hopes to either attend graduate school in the Boston area or work for a company that does natural language processing after graduation. He recommends students to take a linguistics course if they have a passion for languages.

Neeti Kulkarni: Economics and Music

By Sara McCrea and Polina Potochevska editors

Neeti Kulkarni ’21 didn’t plan on becoming a music major until she was surrounded by them. She attended a chamber music camp in Minnesota with instructors from conservatories at nearby universities, a camp where musicians of all ages practiced outside and filled the air with music. The experience inspired her to major in music as a way to continue playing the violin and the viola, instruments she has played since

she was five years old.

Majoring in music at Brandeis is a way for Kulkarni to maintain her skills and see her hard work pay off. “I don’t know how much I’ll be able to play music after college because I don’t know what ensembles will be around me and what opportunities I’ll have, so this seems like the best way for me to send it off in the right direction,” Kulkarni said.

While her other major was originally undecided, Kulkarni was always interested in economics, and decided to pursue that path alongside her music major after taking Microeconomics her

first semester. “It made sense to me, and I like learning about the way things work,” Kulkarni said.

Kulkarni added that the large number of double-majors at Brandeis make majoring in multiple subjects less daunting. “It definitely helps to know that so many people around you are double majors,” Kulkari said. “I know double majors with music [at other schools] and it’s really hard because they always feel like they have to sacrifice one thing over the other. It’s definitely hard here because there’s not any cross-listed classes, but everyone motivates you to work hard here too.”

While she had friends when she was younger who knew from an early age they wanted to do music professionally, Kulkarni does not have plans to pursue a career in the field.

“It’s a really unstable life, and I think it’s really wonderful if you can succeed at it, but it’s a game of chance when you get down to it,” Kulkarni said.

Although she is currently taking introductory courses in both subject areas, Kulkarni has not noticed much of an overlap between the two disciplines.

“Take for example what I’ve doing in Macro right now. We’re

PHOTO COURTESY NEETI KULKARNI

doing leaning about cost of living and GDP, and in music I’m learning performance techniques and Gregorian chants. So right now there’s not a lot of overlap.

In the future I’ll see if there is, but honestly I’m fine with them being completely separate.”

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Heller alumni quilt memories through Project Repat

By Sara McCrea editor

To entice students to participate in on campus events, promises of “free food” and “free shirts” are common. But after graduation, many t-shirts that sport lettering from a specific activity get thrown out or stuffed in the backs of drawers as a way to hold onto the memories. For students who are not planning to spend their post-college lives wearing their “JURY” shirts but want to keep the memories, Heller School alumni Nathan Rothstein and Ross Lohr’s company Project Repat “upcycles” old t-shirts into something a little more practical and cozy—a quilt.

Rothstein and Lohr met while in classes for the Heller School Social Management and Social Entrepreneurship MBA program.

“There were only about five men in the program, so we couldn’t avoid each other,” Rothstein said.

“We were in some classes together, and for one of the classes, I started showing up later and later each week. Ross started making fun of my lateness, so that’s how we got to know each other.”

Although Rothstein dropped out of the program after a semester, their partnership continued

when Lohr started to think about all of the t-shirts that end up overseas during his time in Kenya. While stuck in a traffic jam, he was surprised to see a Kenyan man pushing a cart of fruit wearing a shirt with the text “I Danced My Ass Off at Josh’s Bar Mitzvah.”

He was amazed by the amount of t-shirts that are sent around the world after being discarded.

When Lohr brought the idea of finding a way to upcycle t-shirts to Rothstein, they started meeting with Kenyan fashion designers to make different products out of used t-shirts to sell at local markets. However, there was one request they kept hearing from their customers.

“There were tote bags and scarves, but people kept coming up to us and asking ‘can you turn my t-shirts into quilts?’ After we heard that enough times, we started figuring out a way to do that part of the business,” Rothstein said.

Launched in the summer of 2012, Project Repat comes from the idea of repatriation, or to return something to its country of origin. The company aims to bring textile jobs back into the United States instead of overseas. In the early years of the business, the founders sold the quilts through Groupon and marketed through Facebook and

Instagram to direct customers to their site, but it wasn’t long before the project took off, with Project Repat shipping out around 60,000 t-shirt quilts a year and recycling 1.5 million t-shirts in 2017.

The newest development in the business is the Project Repat retail store in Newton, opened last month, where customers can come in and lay out their t-shirts in the exact pattern they want before sending it off to production.

“We thought that there’s some people who maybe aren’t comfortable sending their shirts away through the mail and want a little more hand holding and want to see samples,” Rothstein said, “Those were some of the assumptions we had to make before opening up the store.”

As a part of the company’s mission to bring textile jobs back to the U.S., the quilts are made in the Project Repat factories in Fall River, MA and North Carolina.

The t-shirts are first checked for size, cut into perfect squares with a die-cut machine, sorted into a grid, sewed and then backed by a sheet of PolarTec fleece, a fabric made from recycled plastic bottles, produced in Massachusetts.

Each yard of the fleece recycles 23 plastic bottles, making the product with as low a carbon impact as possible.

PHOTO COURTESY NATHAN ROTHSTEIN

“The technique is relatively simple, but the hard thing is making 1,000 to 3,000 shirts a week,” Rothstein said. “It’s a lot of shirts you have to keep with each customer, and everyone has different requests.”

At $130 for a 6x5, full-sized quilt, the most popular size, Rothstein said that the quilts are popular gifts for graduations or for other transitionary periods in someone’s life.

“We’re sitting on a business idea that can be a lot bigger,” Rothstein said. “There are about a billion t-shirts printed and sold in the U.S. every year, and so in the same way that people get a diploma... we think it’s going to become a household thing. You could get a t-shirt quilt once you’re done with a certain stage of your life. Instead of throwing [shirts] out or donating them to Goodwill, you’re going to get a quilt out of them.”

Rock climbing team engages with climbing community

By Polina Potochevska editor

When Lauren Kronheim ’20 went in search of a community at Brandeis to practice her favorite sport, she climbed to new heights to find it. That is, after discovering that the Mountain Club was not active for rock climbers, she founded the Rock Climbing Team.

Kronheim, a neuroscience and psychology major, is the founder and captain of the Rock Climbing Team at Brandeis. “I started this club my freshman year,” she said, “I wanted to create a space for rock climbers in the Brandeis community.”

As the captain, Kronheim said she does a little bit of everything, including coordinating practice times and organizing carpools.

The team also has one practice a week with their coach, Tex, at Central Rock Gym in Watertown.

“Central Rock has a really strong team, they have five or six youth teams of different levels and they also coach Northeastern, Tufts and MIT, so it’s really the place to go for coaching,” Kronheim said.

The team is for students of all experience levels. Kronheim said some of the members who joined in the beginning of the year were very inexperienced or completely new at climbing, but that it’s a space where everyone is included, regardless of their ability. The team gives all students an opportunity to learn and improve, as they practice multiple times a week, both at Central Rock Gym in Watertown or Cambridge and do lifting practices in Gosman and compete in the USA Climbing Collegiate series.

The style of rock climbing that the team practices depends on the interest of its members. Currently, the team is focused on bouldering, a style of rock climbing in which people climb a 15 foot wall without any rope and fall onto mats.

Other forms of rock climbing include top roping and lead climbing: two types of rope climbing.

In terms of top roping, Kronheim said “If you’ve ever gone climbing casually a couple times, that’s probably what you’ve done.”

Top roping is when there is a rope anchored at the top of the wall, and someone is belaying, or securing the climber from the ground and letting out slack to the line.

The other type of rope climbing, lead climbing, is when the climber takes the rope with them as they climb.

“There are things called quickdraws on the wall, which are basically like carabiners, that are attached to a small piece of rope that you would clip your rope into so if you fall above your last clip, you fall to the clip and then the distance that you were above it,” Kronheim explained.

There are three different disciplines of competitive climbing that the team is involved in.

Mostly, they participate in bouldering competitions. There are two different forms: Red Point and On-Sight. The Red Point format is when an area in the gym is dedicated to different boulder problems designated by different colors, where climbers can only use holds of one color that have point values based on difficulty.

“You basically try to rack up as many points as you can,” said Kronheim while explain-

ing the way that Red Point competitions are judged.

The other type of bouldering competition is the On-Sight format, where there are around four different boulders and each climber has around four minutes to try climbing them and get as far as they can without being able to see the other climbers’ attempts.

“The other discipline is roped competition, and that’s usually lead climbing and you try to get as close to the top as you can,” Kronheim said.

The third discipline involves a preset wall with a universal set of holds where climbers try to get to the top as fast as possible.

While Kronheim said that it would be great for students to compete and win, she really just wants more people to be involved. “Right now we have 13 active members and a lot of people who would like to climb more but we didn’t have funding this year,” said Kronheim, explaining that the price of a membership at the gym can be steep, so they hope to be funded through Brandeis club sports in the future.

Kronheim first got involved in rock climbing her junior year of high school, and has worked in various climbing gyms since, including Central Rock.

“I think the rock climbing com-

PHOTOS COURTESY LAUREN KRONHEIM

munity is really awesome, that’s something that really adds to the sport and the club … the climbing team is kind of unique in that we get to really interact with the whole community,” Kronheim said.

For students who are looking for an activity to get involved in but aren’t sure if rock climbing is right for them, Kronheim said

it’s the best sport because everyone who’s new starts off terribly.

“When I got involved in rock climbing, it kind of took over my life … it’s really something where you get out of it what you put into it so as you progress and as you work hard and climb more you get better and it’s really satisfying to see those results,” Kronheim said.

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Emily Bryson takes home the National Championship in the 3000 meter

By Shea Decker-Jacoby editor

Six Judges went to Birmingham, AL for the NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field National Championship. The team finished in 14th place in the national team standings, finishing with six trophies and six All-American awards. Leinni Valdez ’21, Lisbeth Valdez ’21, Irie Gourde ‘17, HS ‘18, Emily Bryson ’19, Julia Bryson ’19 and Doyin Ogundiran ’19 competed in the NCAA Championships.

The Judges competed in the distance medley relay, 3000-meter, 200-meter dash, and 400-meter dash. These awards beat a school record for the women’s team and an All-American caliber performance for the men’s team. All six honors earned the school third place in All-American honors.

This was Emily Bryson’s fourth overall All-American honors.

This also makes her the first woman to win multiple All-American honors for Brandeis at the same meet since Mariko Tansey Holbrook Neveu ’03 in 2003.

Both Bryson sisters, Ogundiran, and Lisbeth Valdez all competed in the distance medley earning third nationally. Julia Bryson started the race running the 1,200-meter leg. She

then handed the baton to Valdez who ran the 400-meter leg. The next runner, Ogundiran, ran the 800-meter leg, putting the Judges in the top eight. The final runner, Emily Bryson, got the Judges in third place, passing regional rivals MIT down in the final stretch of the race. They finished the race with a final time of 11:42.97. This time broke a school record set in 2003 by 0.39 seconds.

According to the Brandeis Judges website, after the race Coach Sinead Evans spoke about the team’s performance. “Everyone ran brilliantly. It’s such a tactical race. Julia did exactly what we wanted her to do leading off.

Lisbeth Valdez—a freshman at her first nationals, who has been so consistent all season long—executed her plan just like she wanted to. Doyin ran one of her fastest 800’s of the season and brought everyone back in, and Emily just reeled them in. It was an exciting race.”

Emily Bryson entered the 3000-meter championship with the 17-fastest qualifying time.

That didn’t slow Bryson down at all. After the first half of the race, she was in the top eight. Without hesitation, Bryson moved to the head of the pack with four laps to go and in the final 400 meters she pulled away to earn herself a lead that secured her victory. She ran the race in 9:33.99, running the

final lap in 30.67 seconds. She ran a full five seconds faster than the second place runner from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

Bryson told the Brandeis Judges website, “I felt so good headed into the final 400 meters. I didn’t want to go too early, knowing how many other great runners there were in the race, but [head coach] Sinead [Evans] talked to

me before the race about being patient. I was ready to go on those last two laps.”

With this final race of the season, she now holds the ninth-fastest time in Division III history.

Bryson is also Brandeis women’s track and field first individual national champion since 1997.

She is also the first 3,000-meter All-American runner for

PHOTO COURTESY EMILY BRYSON

MAKING HISTORY

Emily Bryson ‘19 won the 3000 meter race at NCAAs.

Brandeis since 1993. Reflecting on the season, Bryson told the Brandeis Judges, “I spent a lot of hours at Gosman, and standing on the top of that podium, it really felt like all that hard work paid off. Sinead has been great and had so much confidence in me. My coaches and teammates were so supportive all year long.”

For the men, Gourde earned his first All-American honors with his eighth-place finish in the 200-meter dash. Gourde entered the meet ranked 10th in the 200-meter. He finished prelims in fifth place to earn his All-American status with a time of 21.91 seconds. In the finals, he finished with a time of 22.09 seconds.

Gourde became the first Brandeis All-American in the 200-meter dash and the men’s first indoor track and field All-American for the Judges since 2012.

Coach Steve Flanagan told the Brandeis Judges website, “Irie showed incredible poise after his 400-meter prelim didn’t go his way. He refocused and delivered immediately to earn a deserved All-American honor in the 200.

That kind of resolve represents so much of what we aspire to be as a program.” After this incredible meet, the Brandeis community came together to celebrate the victories of all the athletes to complete the success of the Track and Field indoor season.

Men’s tennis defeats RPI, 5-3

By Sarah Jousset editor

The No. 20 ranked Brandeis men’s tennis team took on the undefeated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Engineers this past Friday at home. The Judges served the Engineers their first loss of the season, beating them 5-3 to improve their own record to 5-1 so far this season.

Brandeis dominated doubles action, taking two of three matches from RPI. Pair David Aizenberg ’20 and Anupreeth Coramutla ’21 won in a tiebreak 7-3 in the No. 1 spot. Tyler Ng ’19 and

Ben Wolfe ’20 beat out their opponent in the No. 2 spot by 8-6.

The No. 3 spot saw fierce competition between RPI and Brandeis as well, with pair Nikhil Das ’21 and Rajan Vohra ’21 losing to RPI in a tiebreak.

In singles action, Aizenberg dropped the No. 1 slot 5-7, 4-6, while Ng suffered a loss after two tiebreakers, winning the first set 12-10 before losing the next two sets in tiebreaks by scores of 7-9, 6-10 at No. 4.

However, the Judges picked up the three singles matches. At No. 2, Coramutla earned the win in three sets, with the second set ending in a tiebreak. Vohra earned an easy victory in the No. 3

spot, with a two set win by scores of 6-0, 6-1. Das won in the No. 5 spot with a three set victory over his opponent. Das won the first set, 6-2, before losing 2-6 in the second set. However, he pulled through in the third set with a 7-5 win to take the match. In the final singles spot, Wolfe’s match went unfinished as the Judges had already secured a win.

The Brandeis men’s tennis team is back in action this Saturday against the 3rd ranked Middlebury College at Natick Racquet Club at 4 p.m. The Judges will go into Saturday with a 5-1 overall season record.

Editor’s Note: David Aizenberg is a sports writer for The Hoot.

PHOTO FROM BRANDEISJUDGES.COM

SETTING THE PACE

Rajan Vohra ‘21 crushed his opponent in the No. 3 singles

spot.

Women’s tennis makes impressive comeback

By Sarah Jousset editor

This past Saturday the No. 19 ranked women’s tennis team took on No. 25 ranked Wellesley College at Wellesley. The women’s team made an impressive comeback in the match, winning the final three games to take home a 6-3 victory over their opponent.

The Judges dropped the first match of the day with pair Olivia Leavitt ’19 and Haley Cohen ’18 losing to Wellesley at the number one spot of doubles play. However, the Judges went on to take the next two doubles matches, to finish doubles play for the day at 2-1. Keren Khromchenko ’19 and Lauren Bertsch ’21 earned the

Judges’ first win of the day in the No. 2 doubles spot with an 8-4 victory over a pair of first years from Wellesley. In the No. 3 spot for doubles action, Michele Lehat ’19 and Rachel Zubrinsky ‘21 beat their Wellesley opponent 8-5.

In singles play, the number one and three spots struggled against their opponents. Cohen dropped her match at the No. 1 spot, 3-6, 4-6, while Leavitt lost at No. 3.

Leavitt lost the first set 2-6, before coming back strong in the second set with a 6-2 victory over her opponent. However, Leavitt couldn’t secure the win, losing 2-6 in the third set. Khromchenko was the Judges only victory in the top three seeded spots, crushing her opponent 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2.

Brandeis swept the final three singles matches of the day to earn their 6-3 win over Wellesley. In the No. 4 spot, Bertsch earned a 6-1, 6-3 victory, while Lehat took the No. 5 spot by scores of 6-3, 6-0 to secure their victory over Wellesley. First year Zubrinsky topped off the day with a close win at No. 6. Zubrinsky barely won the first set, 7-6, before readily defeating her opponent 6-3 in the second set to win the best of 3 match.

The Judges improve their record to 5-2 overall. The women’s tennis team heads into a two week break before playing against on Saturday, March 24. Brandeis will host Trinity College of Hartford, CT at 2 p.m.

PHOTO FROM BRANDEISJUDGES.COM

CRUSHING THE COMPETITION

and doubles action.

Keren Khromchenko ‘19 earned wins in both singles

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Fencing hosts NCAA Regional tournament

By Zach Cihlar editor

The Brandeis fencing teams finished their 2018 season by hosting the NCAA Regional Tournament in Gosman Athletic Center last weekend. Brandeis Athletics hosted teams from Harvard, MIT, St. Joseph’s University, Vassar, New York University, Columbia, Yale, Cornell and Wellesley.

Joanne Carminucci ’19 came out as the top performer for the Judges, taking eighth place, enough to stir a discussion of an NCAA nationals berth. Entering as the 17th seed in the women’s foil tournament, Carminucci slid into the eighth seed after the first two rounds of pooled play. Battling for a spot in the finals with 35 other fencers, the Brandeis foiler defeated two Harvard opponents in her path to the final round. She posted a 5-6 record in the finals, landing her the eighth place spot for women’s foil. Ultimately, this solid finish was not enough to secure her a place in the NCAA national tournament.

Determinations weigh the regular season alongside NCAA Regional berth. Carminucci’s strong Regionals performance was offset by the rest of the 2018 season.

Columbia took home the win in the foil weapon, taking four out of the top eight spots in the event.

Columbia has been dominant in the NCAA Division 1 fencing world in recent years. The team has earned the NCAA national championship title in 2015 and 2016.

Liz Feller ’18 also posted a respectable performance in the epee weapon. In her final tourna-

ment as a Brandeis fencer, Feller reached the second round alongside her teammates Dakota Levy

’20 and Maddy Vibert ’21. The senior went 2-4 in the second round to place her in the 23rd spot for

the weapon.

For the men, Leon Rotenstein ’20 earned the only spot in the

Leon Rotenstein ‘20 reached the final round in men’s saber at the regional competition, but will not continue on to NCAA. COMING UP SHORT

REGIONALS STANDOUT

PHOTOS FROM BRANDEISJUDGES.COM

Joanne Carminucci ‘19 finished regionals in eighth place.

final round for the Brandeis Judges in the saber event. The sophomore went 2-3 in the opening round of the saber competition, earning the final open spot in the semifinal round. Rosenstein dialed in during semifinal play and dominated his pod, going 5-0 to put him into the final round. He split the final round 3-3 to earn 11th place.

Kyle Berney ’18 also reached the semifinal round of the saber weapon. The senior couldn’t capitalize, however, and landed in 20th place.

Elishua Litle ’18 reached the final round of the foil event in his last Brandeis fencing tournament, finishing 10th in the competition.

Litle entered the semifinal round in the fifth seed after going 5-1 in the opening round. He battled out four out of six wins in the round to secure the seventh seed spot in the finals of the weapon. Earning three wins in the finals, the senior foiler’s results earned him the 10th place spot.

Litle was joined by teammates Ian Quin ’20 and Jared Sugarman ’21 in the semifinal round, each of whom could not rack in enough wins in to earn a place in the finals of the foil tournament.

As the season closes, the men’s team will lose seven fencers. With strong fencers in the younger classes, however, the team stands to look very similar in competition in the next season.

The women’s team, holding a much smaller roster, stand to lose only two graduating fencers next season, including Laura Broffman ’18 and one of their strongest epee performers, Feller.

Baseball starts season slow, drops last four of five games

By Shea Decker-Jacoby and Zach Cihlar editors

The Brandeis baseball team won their first game of the season in one of two double headers over the weekend of March 10-11. All four games were played in Northborough, MA at the New England Baseball Complex.

In the first game of the weekend, the Judges defeated Bowdoin 8-3 in a morning game. Brandeis got up to an early lead, scoring three runs in the first inning. First baseman Darren Bates ’21 and infielder Mike Khoury ’21 both earned spots on base by taking hits-by-pitch early in the first inning. Both scored runs, helped out by a two-run double from teammate Isaac Fossas ’21. Outfielder Dan Frey ’21 batted in Fossas off a single for the last run of the first inning.

From the first inning, the Judges dominated the Bowdoin Polar Bears. The team saw one home run off the bat of Khoury in the sixth inning. Rookie pitcher Mason Newman ’21 led the Judges to the win off the mound. It was the first win of his collegiate career, and the rookie Judge advanced to 1-0 in his personal record.

Later in the day, the Judges couldn’t keep the momentum going, dropping the second game to the Polar Bears 9-12 despite a

home run from yet another rookie, Alex Parrot ’21. Khoury, Bates and Fossas again added to the team’s scoreboard, all earning at least one RBI during the second game. Infielder Victor Oppenheimer ’20, utility player Tommy Sand ’21 and outfielder Dan O’Leary ’20 also earned RBIs in the game against Bowdoin.

The next day, the Judges played

a double-header against Western New England. The Judges had a rough start in the day, dropping the first game 4-12, but put up more of a fight in the second game. They fell short, however, with a final score of 3-7. In the first game, the Judges were head to head with the Western New England Golden Bears. The Judges were the first to score with two

runs on the board in the first inning by Victor Oppenheimer ’20.

The Bears responded with two of their own runs in the second and two more in the third. Frey and Fossas scored the Judge’s final runs in the fourth inning. The Golden Bears did not stop and went on to score eight more runs.

The second game shortly followed and once again the Judges

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Mike Khoury ‘21 continues to preform at the plate despite Judges’ losing streak

stayed close to the Golden Bears for seven innings before the Bears scored four runs in the eighth inning to close out the game. The first run was an RBI from Tommy Sand ’21 on a ground ball with a man on third. Donnie Weisse ’20 drove in Sand with an RBI single to center. At the top of the seventh, Daniel Schupper ’19 left a runner on base when he got a strike out and a ground out to close out the seventh inning for the Bears. With the Judges at bat in the seventh, Fossas hit one deep into center field. Looking like it might clear the fence, the Bears made a running catch just a few steps away from the wall to send the game into extra innings.

The Bears capitalized on the extra innings and finished off the game with four more runs.

Despite the loss, relief pitcher Bradley Bousquet ’18 threw 3.1 innings only allowing two runs and sticking out five batters. Jackson Carman ’20 come in after Bousquet and pitched three innings of one-run ball, only allowing two hits and zero walks.

The Judges came back to the field at WPI on the 15th. Once again the Judges kept their opponent close, but feel short in the end to lose the game 9-12. They go into their next set of game with a 1-6.They hit the road this weekend to play a double-header against Clark and then return home for two games against Wentworth.

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Support Hannah Brown for Student Union President

he Brandeis Hoot would like to voice our support for Hannah Brown ’19 for Student Union president. We believe her platform addresses issues that deserve attention from all parties on campus and provides practical solutions for these issues.

Brown is running unopposed for the presidency. However, this does not mean we should treat the election with less rigor or interest. We support Brown’s platform because she has specific, thorough and practical plans to achieve her goals as Student Union president. Though she is running unopposed, Brown is clearly making an effort to promote her ideas and respond to student input by making a detailed website and holding office hours around campus.

We commend Brown for campaigning actively, but we want to be sure she continues these efforts and hold her accountable to her platform and to the student body. Additionally, in this uncontested race, it is still crucial that the student body familiarize themselves Brown’s policies and vote.

While we support many of Brown’s proposals, we want to highlight her plans to address the affordability of Brandeis.

She has discussed the university’s tendency to “nickel and dime” students with additional costs or fees on top of an already exorbitant tuition. As a solution, she proposes a decrease in punishment fines such as library fees, as well as free or subsidized prices for laundry and printing. While the cost of these necessary resources may seem negligible for a one time use, they add up quickly overtime. Brown’s financial platform is underscored by the idea that the administration should prioritize student’s financial needs and work to reduce the cost of tuition wherever possible. She also encourages professors to use more affordable academic resources, including textbooks available in the public domain.

These ideas are tangible ways to help offset the ever-increasing costs of higher education. We support these goals for their practicality, and we also want to encourage administrators to do what they can to make these

changes happen.

Another important facet of Brown’s financial platform involves student labor on campus, a conversation that has been ongoing on the Student Union.

This includes a) Students who work many hours in part-time jobs to the extent that it impacts their academic ability and involvement in campus activities and b) unpaid student positions on campus, such as admissions tour guides. Brown explained that possible solutions to these issues include improving needbased financial aid and introducing an increase in stipends for students in leadership positions or services clubs. We support both of these initiatives, and again, we both want to push Brown to focus on these plans as president and encourage the administration to do their part in exploring the feasibility of such new programs.

Brown’s platform is promising, and we hope she stays true to her promises and that the student body and administration work together to improve affordability on the Brandeis campus.

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Corporations should not be considered legal persons

By Alex Kougasian columnist

The debate over whether or not corporations should be considered legal persons has sustained longevity in the legal sphere.

While some believe it is within the rights of corporations to be offered the same rights and protections as any legal person, others believe corporations should not have this power. As a result, many philosophers, lawmakers and political theorists are scratching their heads as to what its implications truly are for the tenets of law that governs America.

My main concern with the legal personification of corporations is that persons have the power to donate to politicians and their campaigns, and therefore so would corporations.

In “Corporations open up about political spending,” New York Times columnist Eduardo Porter argues that people who worry about how much money is being funnelled into the government should not be setting their sights on “corporate personhood,” but rather the demographic of rich and ideologically-firm donors to political campaigns. However, these wealthy individual donors are not as worrying to me as corporations.

First, corporations oftentimes use money that is not necessarily theirs. With large corporations, there might be countless investors, each with a stake in the company’s worth. If a corporation makes a political move, it should have the support of every inves-

tor, which in many cases is impossible to get. More important, however, is the responsibility that corporate personhood puts on the consumer.

When I buy a box of chocolates from the supermarket, I should not need to worry about whether or not I am supporting the chocolate company’s political agenda.

It puts another level of worry on the consumer as she must now navigate the market, supporting corporations that align with her political beliefs while entertaining the regular shopping considerations like cost and utility.

Consumers might be doing this regardless of whether or not corporations achieve legal personhood. Wealthy, ideologically firm donors are the backbone of many corporations. And if the consumer buys a product from one of the companies of which that donor is an owner or investor, she is indirectly supporting the political moves that the owner of the company makes.

This, in my eyes, is a different problem. The rich and ideologically firm company owner has used her assets to donate to a political campaign. However, when she donates, she does it as herself and does not represent any other group of individuals that might condone being represented in such a decision.

Owning a commodity is ultimately a political act. If companies are able to fund certain politicians, the line separating the political and economic spheres bursts. But the potential for problems seeps farther into the economic sphere than the general populous might understand.

Other than economic ramifications, there are more abstract worries that come with corporations being deemed legal persons.

There is now a precedent for defining something that is not an individual as a legal person. This creates potential for many more non-person entities to become legal persons. It’s possible religious groups or families could have the potential of becoming legal persons if groups of people are allowed such a status.

This might seem like a faulty slippery slope argument, but

some groups are already attempting to obtain legal personhood.

In the documentary, “Unlocking the Cage,” a lawyer from an animal rights organization argued in front of the Supreme Court that chimpanzees should be deemed legal persons, based on the loose definition of the term used by corporations. If chimpanzees are allowed that status, it would be illegal to lock them in cages because of habeas corpus. These are the kinds of changes that are now possible due to the fact that corporations are deemed as le-

gal persons. While some of these changes might arguably turn out positive, we are not ready as a society to grant that power of legal personhood to entities that are not people.

Corporations’ legal person status is one of the more peculiar decisions in U.S. law, but its implications warrant concern. Corporate personhood allows for a blurring of the political and economic spheres that is unfair to consumers and investors and creates precedent for disturbing legal changes.

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STEVEN WISE, AN ANIMAL RIGHTS LAWYER FROM UNLOCKING THE CAGE

Our justice system must refocus on rehabilitation

By Sabrina Chow staff

A prisoners’ standard of living varies greatly from those of us on the other side of the bars. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, since the beginning of 2018, there have been 2.3 million people housed in American correctional facilities, whether it be state prisons or juvenile detention centers.

As the country with the highest per capita incarceration rate, the sheer volume of people in the correctional system in the United States is an issue that needs to be addressed. But it’s difficult to identify the best way to decrease the number of people who are put in jail.

In a 2005 study, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that “an estimated two-thirds (68 percent) of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of release from prison, and three-quarters (77 percent) were arrested within five years.” This is the biggest flaw in our justice system. We are not helping inmates discover a place in society that is not behind bars.

People in correctional facilities do not have the opportunity to

break the cycle of incarceration.

But is it the responsibility of the individual to realize this necessity for change, or should the responsibility be placed on the justice system to help educate these people to reintegrate them into

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society? I believe in the latter. The purpose of the justice system is not just to put offenders in jail, but to create a more just country. This includes helping inmates who need assistance. The Prison Policy Initiative found that the cycle of

incarceration is hardest on people with troubled backgrounds who see crime as their only option and are unable to find a way out. The justice system should be a catalyst for them to break the cycle.

Our justice system would

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function better if we as a country could create a prison system similar to that in Sweden. The Swedish system revolves around rehabilitation rather than imprisonment. Instead of prisoners living restricted lives where their every move is monitored, Sweden has “open prisons,” allowing prisoners to live more like regular citizens. These prisons offer prisoners educational and professional opportunities, allowing prisoners to improve their place in society.

In an article published by The Guardian, Nils Öberg, director-general of Sweden’s prison and probation service, says that “our role is not to punish. The punishment is the prison sentence: they have been deprived of their freedom. The punishment is that they are with us.”

While there has been an increase in opportunities for American prisoners to receive an education or start their lives over, the battle for prisoner rehabilitation is far from over.

Yes, prisoners made bad and sometimes harmful decisions, but they deserve a second chance.

Don’t make them sit behind bars, idly counting down the days until their release.

Grant them the opportunity to receive an education and reintegrate into society.

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‘Bojack Horseman’ challenges the TV narrative of abortion

By Katarina Weessies editor

In America, an unwanted pregnancy can be a terrifying endeavor. When deciding whether to continue the pregnancy or get an abortion, pregnant people are faced with myriad societal pressures that can make them feel helpless. This feeling of helplessness is compounded by the fact that abortion, an often painless and simple procedure, is portrayed by the media as serious, life-altering and dire. TV shows that portray abortion, including Friday Night Lights, Degrassi High and Grey’s Anatomy, convey that abortion is a highly tense, emotionally fraught topic, and that the decision to get an abortion is difficult and traumatizing.

While for some people, the choice to get an abortion is exactly as terrifying as these shows make it out to be, for many, it’s no big deal. According to the Guttmacher Institute, nearly 15 out of 1,000 American women have had an abortion. Most of them did not describe their experience as emotionally or physically traumatic. A 2010 study on abortion at the University of California, San Francisco found that people “felt more regret, sadness and anger about the pregnancy than about the abortion, and felt more relief and happiness about the abortion than about the pregnancy.” No credible studies have found that an abortion increases your chances of developing a mental illness or experiencing a “negative psychological change” later in life.

Until recently, TV has struggled to portray abortion outside of an emotionally charged lens. One recent show to change that trend is Bojack Horseman. Bojack Horseman is a bizarre, edgy Netflix original that handles dark topics like depression and alcoholism, with brash and often absurdist humor. The 2016 episode “Brrap Brrap Pew Pew” applies Bojack Horseman’s gritty-yet-lighthearted humor to abortion. “Brrap Brrap Pew Pew” follows teen popstar Sextina Aquafina through her very public abortion story. She announces her decision to get

an abortion on Twitter, releases the sexually-charged music video “Get Dat Fetus, Kill Dat Fetus,” and livestreams the abortion in an educational pay-per-view special. The underlying irony of the story is that Sextina isn’t actually pregnant. Her social media coordinator, the show’s main character, Diane, accidentally tweeted about her own decision to get an abortion from Sextina’s account.

Sextina decides to roll with the mistake, appointing herself as a leader of the pro-choice movement. Sextina’s brazen fake abortion story occurs alongside Diane’s similarly liberated, but less

absurd abortion.

Diane sits in an abortion clinic with her husband while Sextina’s “Get Dat Fetus, Kill Dat Fetus” plays in the background. Diane is disappointed with the song, stating that it “gives the pro-life movement fuel” with lines like “I’m a baby killer” and “Aliens inside me/gonna squash it like Sigourney.” Diane’s views on the song are countered by a teenage girl waiting alone in the clinic.

The girl is empowered by Sextina’s lyrics, telling Diane that the lyrics are meant to be read as a joke, and explaining that “Getting an abortion is scary. And when you can

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joke about it, it makes it less scary, you know?”.

Bojack Horseman’s humor does not shy away from the real, serious issues faced by people who get abortions. Diane has to pass through a picket line of anti-abortion protesters in order to get to the clinic, and the doctor providing the abortion is legally required to give Diane twenty hours of cute puppy videos (Diane’s husband is a dog, and the fetuses are puppies). This parodies laws in 14 U.S. states forcing women to get an ultrasound before they have an abortion. But the picket lines and puppy videos don’t factor into Diane’s decision to get an abortion.

Diane perseveres through the political measures meant to prevent the abortion with a level of boldness that pales in comparison to Sextina Aquafina, but is far more assured than what we usually see on TV. Bojack Horseman asks us to enter an empowered world where people are free to take abortion lightly. While the audacity of Sextina’s “Get Dat Fetus, Kill Dat Fetus” doesn’t belong in the real world, the calm empowerment of Diane certainly does. Bojack Horseman deals with the sensitive subject of abortion without falling into the trap of morose seriousness, choosing to represent an abortion story without trauma. Many people who get abortions in America do not have the heart-wrenching experiences portrayed by most TV shows.

Bojack Horseman’s light-hearted, humorous portrayal of abortion is empowering, healthy and accurate.

Time’s up: the power in the money

By Sabrina Chow staff

Male reign over society is slowly but surely coming to an end. It appears that after being viewed as the dominant sex for thousands of years, the power has gone to their head. Men, however, are in for a rude awakening because their time’s up.

Our society is not static. Old systems of power are being challenged and dismantled. Women are starting to fight back through the enormously popular #Metoo and #Time’sUp movements. The Time’s Up movement is a direct reaction to #MeToo, specifically focusing on empowering women to fight back against their aggressors.

According to the Time’s Up Now website, “Nearly half of working women in the U.S. say they have experienced harassment in the workplace. One in three women ages 18 to 34 have been sexually harassed at work. Seventy-one percent of those women said they did not report it.” Living in

such a male dominated society, it is not surprising so many women choose to stay silent. With so many men maintaining leadership positions in companies, women often don’t feel powerful enough to report harassment and assault in the workplace.

The most radical part of the #Time’sUp movement is the organization’s legal fund. The legal fund focuses on marginalized women who cannot afford to press charges against wealthier aggressors. The legal fund is particularly focused on domestic and service workers. The Time’s Up website articulates that “Sexual harassment is pervasive across industries, but especially in lowwage service jobs. For example, more than 25 percent of sexual harassment charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the last decade came from industries with service-sector workers.” The Time’s Up Legal Fund makes the empowerment of the #Time’sUp movement accessible to everyone.

While the movement is pri-

marily led by women, many male actors in Hollywood have voiced their support. The payroll in Hollywood favors male actors over female actors. But with more women vying for equal pay, male actors are starting to speak up. Mark Wahlberg donated the $1.5 million he received in reshoots for the film “All the Money in the World,” to the #Time’sUp movement, according to Deadline News. He did this in protest of Michelle Williams’, his female co-star, low payout, learning that she received less than $1,000 for the same film.

Since it’s founding, the legal fund has raised $21 million and assisted almost 2000 women, according to an article in NPR. The fund is a legal “matchmaking” service, pairing women with local attorneys and helping pay their legal fees. This can be incredibly empowering for marginalized survivors of sexual harassment and assault. It’s been a long-standing, unspoken fact of society that the people who have the money hold the power. Women have tra-

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ditionally been seen as powerless and voiceless because they have been barred from the lucrative

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careers that many men enjoy. The #Time’sUp Legal Fund gives power back to the women.

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Hip Hop artist ‘Celo’ raps about family and loss

By Rebecca Goldfarb editor

Brandeis allows students to explore their passions, take control of what they like to do and make it their own. One student, Marcelo Brociner ’18, or Celo, has been pursuing his love of hip hop for the last six years, since his junior year of high school, and has been recording music for five years. “I started writing raps in my garage.

With our whole friend group, the criteria was, ‘if you are in the garage, you have to have a verse to rap’ so that is how I got into writing music,” he reflected. His friends encouraged him to take music seriously, so he began recording music on a real microphone.

The only instrument Brociner needs is his voice. “I used to be good at Guitar Hero, I played trumpet in elementary school, and the recorder does not count,” he said. “Other than that I do not play any instruments. My friends make all the beats that I rap on.”

Of performing, Brociner said, “there is something reciprocal about it that feels really good. It is a connection that you cannot really form in any other way.”

Brociner only performs original music. “I never have or will in my life perform a cover. The reason for that is for other genres, covers are totally making complete sense because if it is a sung song, you can totally give it your own flavor based on your voice, but if you are rapping, you cannot really deliver a different rap verse much different than the original verse would have been,” Brociner explained.

Though primarily focused on rap, Brociner said he hopes to branch

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out into “more club type beats.”

Growing up, Brociner listened to Cuban rap group Orishas.

“They are really revolutionary with how they made music, but it is rap, and that is the early roots of my rap influence,” he said.

Though he cites Orishas as one of his biggest inspirations, Brociner credits Bob Dylan as an early rapper and looks to artists like Kendrick Lamar and Frank Sinatra for guidance. “The stage you

are in your own craft dictate how much influence that these artists have on you,” he pointed out. “I think certain artists will influence the sound more and other artists will influence the message more.

It really depends on what stage in your craft you are at, still figuring out who you are, it’s easier to latch onto, but once you change up how much you want to draw from other people because you have more identity behind it.”

“It is not healthy to try to sound like one specific person for your own craft for whatever you are working on, like music, writing, painting or photography. You are not contributing anything if you are just replicating,” Brociner argued.

One of Brociner’s songs, “L-W,” is particularly significant to him.

He wrote the song shortly after a friend passed away from drugs and alcohol. The album, also titled “L-W,” “was supposed to give a message about how to take a loss and make a lesson or a win out of it, so that meant a lot to me in that sense.” Brociner dedicated his song “Domino” to his family.

“I’ve got a tattoo of a domino on me. This song is a dedication for my dad and I for our birthday.

Dominoes are huge in Cuba, so this song is an ode to my parents,” he said.

For Brociner, the best part about being a rapper is “whenever one person or anybody, whether they are my best friend or if I never really talked to them before, reaches out to me saying ‘this line resonated with me so much,’ which is really what I care about.”

“I have always treasured that the most, because I am doing what I should be doing, which is just making things for myself, that will then resonate with other people,” he said.

Brociner plans to continue to make music after graduating from Brandeis. “It is not something that I can just stop doing. Any artist no matter what they are doing can say that because it is just too vital of an outlet to cut off because things will continue to just get caught up in your brain. That is what art is all about,” he said.

What to see and do in Boston: Cuban dance, women’s rights and parenthood

By Ben Beriss editor

As midterm season continues, it’s easy to lose sight of anything without a deadline or a grade.

Fortunately, we are a mere half hour away from a city filled with endless entertainment to help you forget about your life for somewhere between one and three hours.

Steve: A charmingly modern show, “Steve” follows a couple made up of two Steves (well, one Stephen) as they attempt to keep their relationship intact while raising a son and coming to terms with the end of their hedonistic party days. When a case of casual sexting crops up, it sows divisiveness between the two and their circle of friends. The show switches fluidly between serious and comedic, tackling the realities of its characters lives with care but never shying away from lightheartedness to any moment.

“Steve” is running through March 24 at the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Black Box, presented

by Zeitgeist Theater Company.

Tickets are $30.

A Little Bit of Ireland: To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Weekend, the Reagle Music Theatre is presenting a show designed to give a taste of the Emerald Isle. A large

production, with a cast of over 100, the show is designed to make you feel as if you’ve been transported to Hibernia. It features a bevy of Irish customs, from heartfelt comedy to harp music to traditional Irish songs to a visit to the classic pub. The show runs for three performances March 17-18.

Tickets starts at $37, with student rush for 50% off available beginning an hour before the show.

We Did it for You!: To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Amazing Things Art Center is restaging the popular show “We Did it for You! Women’s Journey through History” which follows the history of women’s rights in America up to now. Combining catchy showtunes and comedy with its historical teachings, this musical is a wonderfully lighthearted refresher on the power of women to fight oppression and win. The show is being performed March 18, with tickets starting at $6.

La Tierra del Olvido: The Villa Victoria Center of the Arts is also celebrating Women’s History Month with its exhibit “La Tierra” which features art created by Latina women taking inspiration from the cultural ancestry. Specifically, they are featuring the work of Stephanie Aguayo, who uses videos and animation to explore colonial commercialization

of her community, as well as Rebekak Vargas, who uses photography and poetry to explore factual and alternative narratives related to her Nicaraguan heritage and themes of displacement and Latinidad. The exhibition runs through March 22. Admission is free, though you must register at the Villa Victoria’s website to visit on a weekday.

DanzAbierta: The Institute of Contemporary Art once again features an impressive performance, this time in the form of Cuban dance. DanzAbierta is an award-winning dance troupe which has helped create contemporary dance in Cuba and are now bringing their show “Malson” to Boston.

The show is a multimedia presentation with the dancers interacting with a video stream to create an impressionistic portrait of la Cuidad de Columnas, Havana. The show also features a score written by well-known artist Alfonso X. The show runs March 17 and 18 with tickets starting at $44.

Massmouth Story Slam: Photo Finish: The nonprofit Massmouth has been holding “story slams” since 2009, and on Monday is holding the next event of their sixth formal season. United around a theme of “photo finishes,” the show features ten randomly selected volunteers telling

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five-minute stories as dramatically as they can. Aside from providing the night’s entertainment, the best of these performers are given the chance to compete in the finals, or the “Big Mouth Off.” Photo Finish is open to any volunteers, so there are no technical quality guarantees, but the lack of

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polish is part of what makes these events so entertaining. The show is on March 19 and is held at Club Passim. Tickets start at $10.

If you know any upcoming Boston arts events which we’ve missed or may want to feature in the future send them in at eic@ thebrandeishoot.com

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March 16, 2018

It may be free, but ‘Cloverfield Paradox’ isn’t worth your time

By Jonah Koslofsky staff

Netflix wants in on the movie business. Badly.

After half a decade dominating the television sphere, the streaming giant is clearly looking to make the jump onto the big screen—ironic, considering watching something on Netflix is the antithesis of actually going to a movie theater. Netflix already has an Oscar-nominated film in its collection with “Mudbound,” some terrible Adam Sandler movies and now it even has its own blockbuster with “Bright” (the only problem being that “Bright” was awful).

“The Cloverfield Paradox” was a different beast altogether. The third film in a startlingly successful sci-fi franchise, “Paradox” received a surprise release on Netflix on the night of the Super Bowl. It was a genius marketing gimmick: instead of getting viewers hyped for a movie months away, the film was instantly accessible at no extra cost to the consumer (provided they already had an account with Netflix). No one had even heard of “The Cloverfield Paradox” until the day Netflix released it—and that’s awesome.

I remember the Super Bowl commercial actually blowing my mind, mostly due to the pedigree of the Cloverfield franchise.

The first film, titled “Cloverfield,” premiered in 2008 and offered a unique take on the monster-movie genre.

Produced by mystery-master J.J. Abrams and packed to the brim

with “Lost” Easter eggs, “Cloverfield” was like seeing Godzilla from the point-of-view of the civilians on the ground–the whole movie is from the perspective of regular people, seeing kaiju attack through the lens of a handheld camcorder. It’s not amazing, but ten years later, the film still holds up thanks to an airtight script from then-newcomer Drew Goddard (who would go on to write “Cabin in the Woods” and “The Martian”) and solid directing debut from Matt Reeves (who went on to helm the excellent recent “Planet of the Apes” sequels and is set to direct Ben Affleck’s Batman movie–if it ever gets off the ground).

The series laid dormant until 2016, with the surprise release of a trailer for “10 Cloverfield Lane.”

Totally disconnected from the original, “10 Cloverfield Lane” was a claustrophobic, intense thriller with just a little bit of scifi sprinkled in–Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in a bunker and is informed by the possibly-insane Howard (John Goodman, who is amazing in this movie) that the world has ended, and she must remain in the bunker forever (for her own protection). Again written and directed by brand-new talent, “10 Cloverfield Lane” is the highpoint of the series and the least reliant on any marketing gimmicks for its success. It was just a really good movie. In the wake of “10 Cloverfield Lane,” the future of the franchise looked clear and bright: “Cloverfield” would be an anthology series of standalone, grounded sci-fi stories and a springboard for new

talent, produced and quality-controlled by J.J. Abrams.

This context is essential for understanding why “The Cloverfield Paradox” is such a disappointment. Originally in production under the title “The God Particle,” “Cloverfield Paradox” is a Cloverfield movie in name alone–it’s blatantly clear that this wasn’t meant to be a part of the Cloverfield anthology and was shoehorned into the series in post-production. Yet, the components that concocted success in the past are all here– new, hungry filmmakers, a talented cast (that includes “Selma” star David Oyelowo and the hilarious Chris O’Dowd), and producer J.J. Abrams on board to lend a hand.

The problem is, nothing in “Paradox” makes sense. Set in the near-future, earth is in the midst of an energy crisis, and the world looks to a team of astronauts aboard a space station to supply clean energy using a particle accelerator. As soon as they successfully turn on the accelerator, however, the earth appears to vanish. Right off the bat, there are a lot of problems–we never really get a sense of the situation on the ground (on earth). How bad is the energy crisis? What does this world look like? Instead, we spend the majority of the movie aboard the space station, which would be fine except that the movie keeps cutting back to earth and fails to answer these questions. As the movie goes on, more questions arise, but it never feels like the creators have a consistent set of answers or rules governing the proceedings (similar to Abram’s “Lost”).

The bigger problem is the scope of the story: the prior (and better) Cloverfield movies always kept their scale small and hinged around the fate of a few relatable characters. “Paradox,” on the other hand, is huge–we’re constantly confronted with a world ending catastrophe. Between the expository energy crisis and the whole earth disappearing, “Paradox” is easily the biggest “Cloverfield” movie, but the movie isn’t a gigantic blockbuster and the filmmakers can’t accommodate the scale of its story. “Paradox” is the most expensive of the series, with a budget of a whopping 45 million dollars–for context, “10 Cloverfield Lane” cost a third of that. While some of the CGI looks impressive, it’s clear that the lower budgets forced earlier Cloverfield

directors to make compromises that actually helped their movies, while “Paradox” is full of misplaced spectacle.

While it was cool to watch the next installment of a series I like on Netflix instantly, a month after the release gimmick “The Cloverfield Paradox” is just another bad movie on Netflix. The real problem, though, is that the franchise has lost nearly all the good will it’s built up over two movies.

Rumors are swirling that a fourth Cloverfield will be released in October–hopefully the franchise can find some redemption and get back on track. I like the idea of this sci-fi anthology series as a hunting ground for new filmmakers, but there needs to be a bit more quality control if we’re going to keep watching.

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Dark and stylish, ‘Thoroughbreds’ is an ambitious and successful thriller

By Jonah Koslofsky staff

I love it when a good movie comes out of nowhere. Remember a few years ago when “John Wick” looked like it was going to be a generic Keanu Reeves flop and ended up being the best action movie in years? And sure, I loved “Key and Peele,” but it’s not like I was expecting that “Get Out” would be the best movie of 2017. Movies have the power to surprise their audiences by being way better than anyone predicted, and although Hollywood is a club of insiders, new talent is still able emerge—that’s the power of a sleeper hit.

Case in point: Cory Finley’s “Thoroughbreds.” At twenty-nine years old, Finley doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, and his IMDb

entry is a ghost town. Finley started his career as a playwright, but suddenly found himself directing his first feature film based on a script he penned for the stage.

A lucky break for him became a blessing for audiences: “Thoroughbreds” is a fantastic film and the perfect example of a good movie that no one saw coming.

The film follows two extrodiantly wealthy teens, each armed with their own intricate and disturbing personality: Amanda (Olivia Cooke) feels no emotion whatsoever, while Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) is totally self-absorbed.

Lily has an overbearing and borderline-abusive stepfather, Mark, eventually leading Amanda and Lily to decide to kill him. Right off the bat, it would be easy to make these characters feel distant and alien, yet Amanda and Lily are both relatively easy to root for,

and the friendship that follows has an attractive honesty to it. It helps that both actresses are extremely talented—on paper the perpetually numb Amanda could come off as apathetic and awful (she has a lot in common with Meursault from Camus’ “The Stranger”), but instead she’s an odd mixture of flawed and tragic. Considering the film opens with Amanda murdering her horse, you wouldn’t expect to find her character sympathetic or relatable, and yet Cooke and Finley find an appealing center for Amanda. Anya Taylor-Joy, meanwhile, continues her winning streak of performances, following her breakout successes in “The VVitch” and “Split.” Taylor-Joy always seems to have an intensity and confidence about her, and that lends itself to the material here. Finley is clearly aware of and nicely exploits the dynamic between Lily and Amanda, help-

ing the audience latch onto Lily’s perspective due to Amanda’s aversion to feelings.

Speaking of Finley, I’m pretty floored by his work here. Not only is the script exceptionally well-structured and paced, the storytelling is constantly clean and robust. “Thoroughbreds” is a cool 88 minutes, and it’s amazing how much mileage Finley gets out of the compact runtime. At the same time, the big issue most playwrights face when adapting their work to the screen is a lack of an exploration of space–cinema has a lot more opportunities for settings and scenery than a play, and playwrights who write scripts sometimes fail to actualize the potential of the medium (looking at you, edgelord Martin McDonagh). But Finley seems to be a natural at directing for the screen: He uses long, intimate and slow takes to bring the audi-

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ence into each area, and his sound design is spot-on. Finally, Finley makes a good choice not making Lily’s step father explicitly physically abusive, as that would make Lily and Amanda’s plot to kill him much more morally justified. As it stands, the movie operates in a much more interesting grey-area, setting up for a superior (and relatively unhappy) ending.

But more than anyone—even golden boy Finley—the movie belongs to supporting actor Anton Yelchin. He plays Tim, a low level drug dealer and a stark foil to Lily and Amanda’s affluence.

Yelchin is great—a little bit dangerous and very funny—in his final role on film. Mostly known for his work in the recent “Star Trek” films, Yelchin passed away in June of 2016 after a freak accident, two weeks after he completed his work on “Thoroughbreds.”

Yelchin’s always had a youthful charisma, but here he gets to play a little bit against type and he’s superb. It’s supremely sad what happened to the young actor, but a least a little bit of Yelchin will always live on in “Thoroughbreds.”

The only modifier I would add to my blistering recommendation of “Thoroughbreds” is that it is a very dark movie. If you aren’t looking for a grittier version of “Heathers,” maybe this isn’t the movie for you.

Regardless, this is an amazing debut for Finley, and a really awesome thriller. “Thoroughbreds” is a perfect surprise, a tense, stylish and quality film.

March 16, 2018

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The Young Fathers create a unique and noteworthy sound with ‘Cocoa Sugar’

By Sam Manoogian staff

Describing Young Fathers’ genre is almost as impossible as discerning a clear, absolute message in their lyrics. They are a band defined by contradictions and a web of conflicts—both culturally and artistically—that grind against each other to create some of the most fascinating experimental pop and hip-hop music of the last decade. This multifaceted conflict is one of the few constants across Young Fathers’ small discography, and the band’s latest effort, “Cocoa Sugar,” is no exception to the pattern. With 36 minutes of the tightest and most provocative pop music of the year so far, “Cocoa Sugar” is a deceptively simple album that worms its way into your brain and keeps you digging for more just when you thought you had it all figured out.

Young Fathers are a Scottish band formed in 2008, although they didn’t release their debut album, “DEAD,” until 2014. The band’s three members—Alloysius Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole, and Graham “G” Hastings—are Liberian, Nigerian and Scottish, respectively, but their cultural identities run much deeper than a single label. Massaquoi moved to Scotland from Liberia at age 4; Bankole was born in Edinburgh, and then lived in Nigeria and Maryland before moving back to Scotland as a teenager; and Hast-

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ings was born and raised in Edinburgh.

The trio met in high school, when they started making dance music wholly unlike the nuanced experimental and lo-fi hip-hop they produced on 2014’s “DEAD” and its 2015 follow-up, “White Men Are Black Men Too.” The members’ complex identities heavily influence their challenging and varying vocal and instrumental styles, favoring a confluence of countless styles and recording techniques over conventional genres. Nowhere is this more evident than on “Cocoa Sugar,” which features the largest variety of musical styles in a Young Fathers album to date.

The record kicks off with the plaintive “See How,” which deftly sets the tone for the rest of the album. The song unfolds gracefully

over its two-minute runtime, beginning as a lonely voice that is soon accompanied by squelching horns, soft keyboards and quietly mixed chanting before breaking out into gospel choir vocals. The song’s atmosphere and lyrics are at once longing for a different life while also toying with the idea of trying something completely new, a tug-of-war of one’s identity that lies at the heart of “Cocoa Sugar.”

Although every song on the album sounds extremely distinct, “See How” still lays out the conflicting lyrical and instrumental themes that tie the tracks together into a brilliant whole.

One of the most prominent instrumental themes on the album is Young Fathers’ characteristic marriage of lo-fi and hi-fi elements, which is particularly prominent on “Fee Fi” and

“Tremolo.” These tracks root themselves in crackly lo-fi percussion and bass over which rich and emotive vocals are alternately sung and rapped. This contrast of a tinny and simplistic rhythm section against clean vocals and keyboards was similarly utilized on “White Men,” but these songs take the concept a step further by incorporating beautiful group vocal harmonies while stripping down the rhythms even further than on that album. This is especially evident on “Tremolo,” which features a hauntingly shimmering hook combined with softly chanted vocals and a half-whispered rap against a backdrop of delicate drum machine rhythms. On the surface, “Tremolo” seems to be one of the most simplistic tracks on the album, but a closer examination of the many layers in the production reveals that the band never fails to pack subtle details at every possible junction in the album’s slim runtime.

While the instrumentation on “Cocoa Sugar” is highly inventive and intricate, the vocals are the album’s real breathtaker. On every track, Massaquoi and Bankole employ different vocal styles, by turns tenderly soft and gruffly yelling, rapping with loose flows or singing like choirboys, or even somehow incorporating doo-wop vocals at the end of the synthpunk song “Wow”—whatever the track calls for. This vocal elasticity extends to vocal filter manipulation to create the unsettlingly shrill screams on “Turn” or the sinister quips on “Wire.” What stands

out the most in all of these songs, however, is the unabated rawness and energy that Massaquoi and Bankole bring to every performance. Whether quiet or growling or wildly yelping, all of their vocals are infused with an intensity that drives the tracks forward and imbues them with an urgency that makes each one feel vital to the album’s development.

Truly, I could continue raving about this album for another 800 words or more. With each listen, I pick up on some lyric or buried production detail or snatch of melody that I had never noticed before. Frankly, it’s exciting to be unpacking such a dense and confusing album. “Cocoa Sugar” is a record that aims to start an active dialogue with the listener, one that continues beyond the first 36 minutes and extends into every subsequent excursion into the nooks and crannies of these tracks. It’s not just an album that wants you to enjoy it (although it’s sweet and accessible enough for that). It’s an album that wants you to listen closely and intimately engage with the material as with a book or film. Immaculately detailed and stripped to the essentials without losing sight of a sweet pop hook’s greatness, Young Fathers have crafted one of the best albums of the year so far and one that I certainly won’t be putting down anytime soon.

Favorite tracks: Border Girl, Fee Fi, Tremolo, Turn Least favorite tracks: Holy Ghost, Lord

From Georgia O’Keeffe to ‘PlayTime’: A visit to the Peabody Essex Museum The Fine Arts department sponsored a visit to see the exhibit, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style” on March 10, at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The trip was originally planned as a field trip for the class “Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Life,” taught by Prof.

Nancy Scott (FA). Anticipating wider interest in the trip, Fine Arts Undergraduate Departmental Representative Pavla Berghen-Wolf ’18 facilitated getting a larger bus and opening the trip to the public.

48 students attended and visited the “PlayTime” and “T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America” exhibits along with the O’Keeffe exhibit.

- Allison Plotnik, Editor

‘PLAYTIME’ Emma Hanselman swims through a sea of pink balloons.

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O’Keeffe was inspired by the states’ abundent nature.

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Students admire shirts made and worn by famous artist Georgia O’Keeffe.

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#NEVERAGAIN Brandeis students and faculty take part in the national walkout to support gun control legislation and to memoralize the victims of the Parkland shooting.

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At least we got one snow day this

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The faculty team huddles up as they prepare the face the students in a charity basketball match HOOPS FOR HELP

UDR’s Julia Sirota ‘18 and Michael Kroker ‘19 hosted a baking night for students in the German department.

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PHOTO BY CANDACE NG/THE HOOT Philip Cooper ‘18 thinks you should apply to be an admissions interviewer!

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