Roses condemn Univ

The Rose family presented astatement condemning the pro-posed changes to the Rose ArtMuseum at an interdisciplinarysymposium titled “PreservingTrust: Art and the Art Museum”Amidst Financial Crisis at the Roselast night.

The statement, according tocopies provided at the symposium,was written on “behalf of over 50members of the Rose Family” andurges “the current university presi-dent and the trustees to restore theuse, budget, staffing and activitiesof the Rose Art Museum until afinal decision is issued by a court.”

Meryl Rose, a spokeswoman forthe Rose family, a Rose MuseumBoard member and an art collector,read the statement to assembledBrandeis faculty and students,about 20 members of the Rose fami-ly, Rose museum staff and membersof the intellectual community at thesymposium.

The statement also says that“repurposing the museum is clos-ing by another name. It would notbe the Rose. Any other understand-ing of the university’s current planis disinformation.”

Meryl Rose said in an interviewwith the Justice that the Rose fami-ly collectively decided that a writ-ten statement condemning theUniversity’s actions toward theRose was necessary because of thefamily’s attachment to the muse-um. “We just felt that we had to saysomething. We had to be proac-tive.”

While Meryl Rose describedBrandeis as a “wonderful institu-tion,” she said that the administra-tion needs to acknowledge itserrors in the way it handled the sit-uation with the museum.“Personally, what I would love tosee is for [the administration] tosay, ‘We made a mistake,’” she said,adding that “there would be noshame if they admitted they made amistake. It would be seen as a verybig, bold move.”

Meryl Rose also said that themuseum’s closure will have futureimplications for her family’s dona-tions. “Anything we give [to insti-tutions in the future] would havedocuments attached to it that wouldbe scrutinized by several lawyers,”

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SPORTS The most loyal women’s basketball fans 12

FORUM Greek life keeps growing 11

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DAVID PRITCHARD

■ Cassidy Dadaos ’09 ended hercareer on top of her game.

SPORTS 16

■ Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella ofthe Supreme Court of Canada speaksabout human rights reelection.

FEATURES 8

■ Student Union President JasonGray ’10 announced he will notrun for re-election.

NEWS 3

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CAMPUS SPEAKER

An event that would havebrought Bill Ayers to speak atBrandeis may be canceled in partdue to a lack of funding, accord-ing to one of the members of thegroup hoping to bring Ayers tocampus.

Democracy For America mem-ber Lev Hirschhorn ’11 told theJustice that DFA and Students fora Democratic Society, the twomain sponsors of the event, arehaving financial difficulties withthe proposed event. Security costsin addition to Ayers’ speaker feesare both clubs’ main monetaryconcerns, Hirschhorn said. Headded that the groups lackedfunding in part because of theUnion Judiciary’s decision tooverturn a $900 Senate MoneyResolution to be given toward theevent.

Hirschhorn, who is also thesenator for the Class of 2011, stat-ed that “the previous financialinformation regarding the Ayersevent that was printed in other[campus] publications is nowunclear, and we [the event plan-ners] are further discussing with[Director of Public Safety EdCallahan and Vice President ofCampus Operations MarkCollins] the final price tag of theevent.” Hirschhorn declined tocomment further on the specificsof the event.

The Hoot wrote March 13 thatthe total cost of the Ayers visitwill cost around $7,000. That totalincludes a security cost of $4,500,according to Collins. Hirschhorntold the Justice March 3 thatAyers asked for $2,500 in speakingfees and Robert H. King asked for$1,000.

However, Liza Behrendt ’11,DFA event coordinator, said that“all previously released numbers… have been incorrect.” Sheexplained, “The numbers we have

BUDGET

By DESTINY AQUINOJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

By ALANA ABRAMSON and HANNAH KIRSCH

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See MUSEUM, 8 ☛See SPEAKER, 8 ☛

■ About 50 members of theRose family compiled astatement denouncing therecent Rose Art decisions.

■ High security costs andlow funding may threatenthe visits of Bill Ayers andRobert H. King to campus.

The administration is dis-cussing how to close another $5million gap in fiscal 2009 and a $6.9million gap in fiscal 2010,Executive Vice President andChief Operating Officer PeterFrench said at last Thursday’s fac-ulty meeting.

French also projected a 30-per-cent decrease in Brandeis’ endow-ment to $480 million for fiscal 2009after having previously projecteda 25-percent drop from $712 mil-lion to $549 million at the end ofthis December.

The administration will meettoday with the Senate Council andthe Faculty Budget Committee toaddress the budget gaps, Frenchsaid at the meeting.

French said that his departmentis recommending a 3.9-percenttuition increase instead of an orig-inal recommendation of a 4.25-per-cent increase because the vastmajority of comparable institu-tions to Brandeis were under 4percent. The University also has toincrease the percentage of fundsgoing to financial aid by 6 percent,French wrote in an e-mail to theJustice.

“For [fiscal 2009], we do have to

By MIRANDA NEUBAUERJUSTICE SENIOR WRITER

■ A $5 million gap for fiscal 2009 remains andthere is a projected $6.9million gap in fiscal 2010.

See BUDGET, 8 ☛

ROSE FAMILY SPEAKS OUT

SYMPOSIUM STATEMENT: Meryl Rose, center, presents a Rose family statement condemning the closing of the Rose museum.MAX BREITSTEIN MATZA/the Justice

RUSH WEIGHS IN: Rose DirectorMichael Rush addresses the audienceat the Rose Art Museum last night.

MAX BREITSTEIN MATZA/the Justice

SEASON ENDS

The women’s basketballteam’s historic NCAATournament run ended with aloss to Amherst College in theSectional Finals. For more,see pages 12, 13 and 16.

DAVID SHEPPARD-BRICK/the Justice

Ayersvisitmay becanceled

French:$5M gapremains

NEWSPOLICE LOG

State of the UnionJoin Student Union President Jason

Gray ’10 as he delievers this semester’s ad-dress on student life, the financial crisis’impact on the student body, academicchanges, student rights and the Union’s ad-vocacy initiatives. Today at 6:30 p.m. in Ra-paporte Treasure Hall.

‘An Exile’s Journey’Author Joyce Zonana will discuss her

latest work, Dream Homes: From Cairo toKatrina, an Exile’s Journey. Zonana’smemoir recounts the struggles of an Egypt-ian-Jewish American as she forges an iden-tity that bridges a number of apparentdivides: Muslim and Jewish, gay andstraight, dutiful daughter and independentwoman. A panel discussion will followwith Boston writers Tehila Lieberman andSusan Freireich to discuss the process ofwriting about the self and writing aboutthe world through a gendered lens. Admis-

sion is free, but RSVP is required. Wednes-day at 3:30 p.m. in the Hadassah BrandeisInstitute. For more information, e-mailhbi@brandeis.edu.

The Life of America’s Most FascinatingSenator

Come hear Boston Globe journalist andlawyer Peter Canellos discuss his new bi-ography of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Fromgrowing up in the nation’s most famous po-litical family to the deaths of his brothersand finally to his race for the presidency,Kennedy has lived a remarkable anduniquely American life. Wednesday from 7to 8:15 p.m. in the Zinner Forum, HellerSchool for Social Policy and Management.For more information, e-mailjonahsel@brandeis.edu

Can Economics Work for Workers?Join the Brandeis Labor Coalition as

they host a forum on economic perspec-

tives on international labor practices.Speakers will include Brandeis’ Economicsdepartment chair Prof. Rachel McCulloch,the International Business School’s Prof.Michael Appell, and University of Massa-chusetts at Boston Prof. Jerry Friedman.They will offer diverse scholarly opinionson the ethical and economic ramificationsof globalization on workers. Thursdayfrom 7 to 9 p.m. in Rapaporte Treasure Hall.For more information, e-mailshakeman@brandeis.edu.

Film Screening with Q-and-A sessionAs a part of the Student Union Commit-

tee on Disabilities’ awareness month, therewill be a film screening of Darius GoesWest. The screening will be followed by aquestion-and-answer session with thefilm’s director and the cast. Darius willalso be present at the session. Sunday at 7p.m. in Rapaporte Treasure Hall.

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AP BRIEFMedical Emergency

Mar. 10—A caller in the Gos-man Sports and ConvocationCenter reported that a weightcrushed a student’s finger andrequested BEMCo. The studentwas treated on-scene with asigned refusal for further care.

Mar. 11—Psychological staffin the Mailman House re-quested University Police andan ambulance to transport aparty to the Newton-WellesleyHospital.

Mar. 13—University Policereceived a call of a party havingdifficulty swallowing. The partywas treated on-scene with asigned refusal for further care.

Mar. 14 — BEMCo requestedan ambulance for an intoxi-cated female at Pachanga in theUsdan Student Center. The stu-dent was transported to theNewton-Wellesley Hospital.

MiscellaneousMar. 9—A party reported a

raccoon in Ridgewood Quad.University Police checked thearea and found the animal, not-ing that it appeared sick. TheWaltham Police Department re-sponded to assist. The raccoonwas euthanized, and FacilitiesServices was notified to removeit.

Mar. 9—A community devel-opment coordinator in Rosen-thal Quad confiscated a drugsubstance. University Policetook custody of the substance.The CDC will seek Universityjudicial charges.

Mar. 11—A party in the Castlereported that a suitcase was leftunattended for about five hoursand requested that UniversityPolice check the suitcase. Uni-versity Police found that thesuitcase contained personalitems but no identification. Uni-versity Police deemed the suit-case safe and left it.

Mar. 12—University Police’sdetective office investigated a

possible credit card fraud in-volving a Brandeis student atthe request of the Danville, Va.Police Department. UniversityPolice compiled a report.

Mar. 12—University Policereceived a report of a wildturkey in Foster Residence Lotpecking cars. University Policeresponded and escorted theturkey off campus without inci-dent.

Mar. 12—University Policeresponded to a complaint aboutdogs running around unat-tended in the area of theCharles River Apartments andfound two golden retrieverswith phone numbers on theircollars. The owners were askedto pick up their dogs.

Mar. 13—A custodian re-ported a group of studentsdrinking alcohol behind theLown School of Near Easternand Judaic Studies. UniversityPolice responded and found agroup of students who were not

drinking. University Police ad-vised the students not to loiterbehind buildings, and the stu-dents left without incident.

Mar. 14 — A student reportedthat she was assaulted by an-other student in the CharlesRiver Apartments. The commu-nity development coordinatorwas notified, and University Po-lice compiled a report. An in-vestigation will follow.

Mar. 14—A party reported agroup of girls who were arguingin Hassenfeld Lot, got into thesame vehicle and pulled ontoLoop Road. University Policechecked the area, but the girlsand the vehicle were gone.

Mar. 14— An intoxicatedmale at Pachanga in the UsdanStudent Center was placed inprotective custody due to inap-propriate behavior. The studentwas transported to the WalthamPolice Station without incident.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS� An article in News last week incorrectly spelled thesurname of the Dean of Arts and Sciences. His name isAdam Jaffe, not Adam Jaffee. (Mar. 10, p. 1).� A photo caption in News last week incorrectly iden-tified a student’s class year. Eli Katzen’s class year is2010, not 2009. (Mar. 10, p. 2).� An article in News last week stated that Kalynn Cook’11 told the Justice that the Student Union Senate hadconsidered getting circus performers to perform at Mid-night Buffet. The Senate never considered hiring outsideentertainment. (Mar. 10, p. 3).� A headline in News last week misleadingly statedthat the University Web site has been redesigned. TheUniversity Web site is in the process of being redesigned,but the redesign has not been completed. (Mar. 10, p. 4).� An article in News last week incorrectly spelled thename of a search engine. The search engine is JSTOR,not JSTORE. (Mar. 10, p. 4).� An article in News last week incorrectly identified astudent’s class year. David Baumgold’s class year is 2010,not 2009. (Mar. 10, p. 4).� An article in Features last week incorrectly spelleda student’s last name. The student’s name is HannahJanoowalla, not Janoowall. (Mar. 10, p. 6).

The Justice welcomes submissions for errors that war-rant correction or clarification. E-mailjsw5@brandeis.edu.

SENATE LOG

Student Union President Jason Gray’10 spoke about the new residency re-quirement of seven semesters and saidthat it may not pass at the second facultymeeting this week because it does nothave a large support.

Gray stated that he will not be seek-ing another term as president.

The Senate introduced a bylaw thatwould require a chief of elections to no-tify constituencies of ongoing electionsand how to vote in said elections.

The Senate swore in Jenna Rubin ’11 asthe new East Quad senator and Alex Nor-ris ’11 as the new North Quad senator.

Akash Vadalia, Senator for the Class of2012, reported that the Midnight Buffetbudget is down to $3308.01.

Director of Community Advocacy An-drew Hogan ’11 announced the reinstate-ment of the “take your professor tolunch” program, which will relaunchafter April break. Hogan also reportedthat the cell phone amplifier in LowerUsdan would be working shortly.

The Senate introduced and tabled aSenate Money Resolution that wouldsponsor the Brandeis 5K Charity RunApril 5.

The Senate granted an emergency Sen-ate Money Resolution for door hangersthat would inform students about theirsenators and the Student Union.

An emergency SMR regarding the foodthat will be offered to students at the’DeisBikes and the Meet the Senatorsevents on March 23 was also granted.

The Senate tabled a SMR regarding theaddition of compost bins for the CharlesRiver Apartments and the Foster Mods.

The Senate approved an emergencySMR that would create a helmet box forthe ’DeisBikes programs.

Senator for the Transitional Year Pro-gram Terrence Johnson announced thathe would no longer serve as senator be-cause he is withdrawing from the Uni-versity.

The Senate tabled a motion to dechar-ter several clubs that have been inactivebut chartered the Academic LeadershipAlliance, a club interested in creatingleaders and philanthropic events.

—Destiny Aquino

God and EvilAlex Flyax Ph.D. ’13 participates in a debate between members ofChabad and Brandeis Humanists at “God and Evil,” which was moderated by Distinguished Visiting Prof. James Carroll (POL).

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Madoff pleaded guilty Thursdayand faces up to 150 years in jail

Gray talks about new residency requirement

NEW YORK—Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty lastThursday to 11 charges, including fraud, perjury andmoney laundering, in what could be the biggest swindlein Wall Street history. He faces a maximum sentence of150 years in prison, and the judge immediately jailedhim.

In arguing for his release, Madoff’s lawyers say theywould have a hard time preparing for his sentencingwithout the ability to see him frequently to review hisfinances. They say they expect Madoff will be kept insolitary confinement with limited contact with hislawyers.

Madoff and his wife had $823 million in assets at theend of last year, including $22 million in propertiesstretching from New York to the French Riviera, a $7million yacht and a $2.2 million boat named “Bull,” ac-cording to a document his lawyers filed Friday.

The document, prepared for the Securities and Ex-change Commission at the end of last year, was con-tained in papers filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals in an effort to get Madoff freed on bail.

Among the couple’s assets: a $12 million half-share ina plane, $65,000 in silverware and a $39,000 piano. It val-ues their four properties in New York; Montauk, No. Yo;Palm Beach, Fla; and Cap d’Antibes, France at $22 mil-lion and the furniture, fine art and household goods inthe homes at $8.7 million.

But the bulk of Madoff’s assets, according to the docu-ment, consists of an estimated $700 million value put onhis investment business. Madoff said during his pleathat the market-making and proprietary trading side ofhis business were “legitimate, profitable and successfulin all respects.”

The couple’s monthly expenses included $100,000 forlegal fees, $140,000 for personal security, $2,860 for ahousekeeper and $885 for a gardener, the document said.

On Thursday, Madoff took all the blame for his fraudand tried to create a wall between himself and his family.Given the size of the paper trail, a $65 billion scam, 5,000victims and monthly statements going back nearly twodecades, experts say it could be six months to a year be-fore charges are bought against any accomplices.

The FBI has refused to discuss the status of the inves-tigation, but experts say Madoff’s closest relatives andassociates are high on authorities’ list of people who mayhave known what was going on. Among those underscrutiny is Madoff’s wife, Ruth, who withdrew $15.5 mil-lion from a Madoff-related brokerage firm in the weeksbefore his arrest, including a $10 million withdrawalDec. 10.

Also on investigators’ radar is Madoff’s brother, Peter,who was instrumental in building Madoff's investmentfirm. Madoff’s sons also worked for their father in a trad-ing operation he has insisted was separate from hisfraudulent investment advisory service. Besides thefamily, investors have questioned the role of Frank Di-Pascali, chief financial officer of Madoff’s money man-agement business.

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The Undergraduate CurriculumCommittee unanimously approvedthe selection criteria for the Bran-deis study abroad applications lastThursday, according to Dean ofAcademic Services Kim Godsoe.

The criteria, according to theminutes from the Advisory Com-mittee to Study Abroad’s meetingMarch 5, is divided into four parts:academic and intellectual fit of theprogram, intercultural learningplan, academic achievement andpreparedness and personal pre-paredness. Each facet has differentweights of importance: academicand intellectual fit of the programis weighted as 30 percent of the ap-plication, intercultural learningplan as 20 percent, academicachievement and preparedness as30 percent and personal prepared-ness as 20 percent.

Godsoe said that the selectioncriteria do not represent a largenumber of changes to the currentsystem but provide a more defini-tive system for reviewing applica-tions. “This criteria formalizes thecriteria we have been using infor-mally. A student’s level of prepa-ration for the challenges of livingabroad has always been a factor,but the new criteria adds more de-tail to the framework,” she said.

Godsoe initially distributed theselection criteria at the AdvisoryCommittee to Study Abroad meet-ing on Feb. 5, according to the min-utes from that meeting. Thecriteria were reviewed at theMarch 5 ACSA meeting before itwas presented to the UCC lastThursday.

Maggie Balch, the associatedean of student life and a memberof the committee, said that theoverall goal of the selection crite-ria is to ensure that students takethe option of studying abroad seri-ously and think out the process.“The members of the committeewant to see that the program forwhich students are applying meetstheir academic interests, and thatstudents have seriously consid-

ered the implications and chal-lenges of living abroad,” Balchsaid.

According to the minutes fromthe March 5 meeting, “There wassome disagreement voiced early inthe discussion with the percent-ages assigned to various cate-gories, but those who raised thoseconcerns later said they felt com-fortable with the categories.”

Godsoe explained in an inter-view that overall, the criteria re-ceived “overwhelming support”from the students, faculty and staffon the committee.

Hanna Rosenthal-Fuller ’09, astudent member of the committee,said, “The criteria seems to bevery consistent with students’goals for study abroad because itenables them to articulate specifi-cally why they want to go abroadand is representative of the com-mittee’s goals and options as a wayof judging students’ applications.”

While the committee generallysupported the criteria, the issue ofstudents’ judicial records still re-mained a source of contention.This issue was brought up at theprevious meeting Feb. 11. Theminutes from that meeting statethat currently students are only in-eligible from going abroad if theyare on active probation, but stu-dents applying to study abroadprograms have to give the facultyaccess to their judicial files.

The March 5 minutes state that“while no consensus was reached,it was very clear that judicial is-sues are very individual, thus anuanced and balanced review ofany past or pending judicial issueswould be necessary.”

“The only question that repeat-edly emerges is to what degree astudent’s prior experience with ju-dicial action should impede theirability to go abroad,” said Godsoe,adding that there were a “widerange of opinions on the subject.”

“I think assessing the judicialaspect on an individual basis is thebest way of approaching theissue,” Godsoe said.

Rosenthal-Fuller also confirmedthe debate over the issue of priorjudicial action but did not specifywhich members of the committeethought it should prevent studentsfrom going abroad.

She also did not say whichmembers thought it should not bea factor.

UCC approves newstudy abroad criteria

Gray won’t run again

Current Student Union PresidentJason Gray ’10 will not run for a sec-ond term in the upcoming Union elec-tions and will not hold an official rolein the Union after a new Union presi-dent is elected next month, he said.

Gray announced his decision tnot torun for president at the beginning oflast Sunday’s Senate meeting. Elec-tions for this year’s Union Presidentwill occur in early April.

“I think that it is important everyyear to continue to have fresh leader-ship. I think that I have done my serv-ice to the community and that it istime for someone else to be in charge,”Gray said in an interview with the Jus-tice.

Although he will not have an officialrole in the Union, Gray told senators atthe meeting that “while my service asthe Union president will soon be over,I will still be here as a mentor and as asupport to assist the Union and ourstudent body in any way that I can.”

Gray won the Union elections lastApril with 693 votes, defeating JustinKang ’09. Gray was the former directorof Union affairs before he was electedas Union president.

Gray told senators at the meetingthat he remembered campaigning totransform the Union’s relationshipwith students and administratorswhile advocating improvements tocampus life.

Gray explained to the Justice thatthe culture of the Union has changed

so “that it is more about working forstudents and less about a pretend gov-ernment club.” He continued that theUnion’s relationship with the admin-istrators “is one of mutual respect, …and it hasn’t always been like that inthe past.”

In an interview with the Justice,Gray listed the creation of the Office ofStudent Rights and Advocacy, the pur-suit to integrate of the Student Bill ofRights into The Rights and Responsi-bilities Hanbook and the fundraisersheld for a Springfield church and Hur-ricane Katrina victims as some of theUnion’s main accomplishments.

“Fighting for student involvementand defending student rights were atthe core of the things that we accom-plished,” Gray told the Justice.

Commenting on the ongoing im-provements the Union should make,Gray told the Justice that he believesthat there should be a continued effortto engage students in the academic andfinancial changes that are takingplace.

He cited the town hall meetings heldto allow students to voice their opin-ions on campus issues as examples ofhow the Union had worked toward itsgoal to encourage student participa-tion.

“Right now, every single person whogoes to Brandeis has the ability to im-pact big changes at this University,and we need to get as many people en-gaged in that process as we can,” hesaid.

He emphasized that “there is a lot ofstuff that needs to be continued,” suchas the efforts of the Office of StudentRights and Advocacy, the Committeeon Ethics Endowment and Responsi-bility and the Dining Committee thatis reviewing the University mealplans. He also said that “if people don’tcontinue [the relationship establishedwith the administrators] it’s going toroll on back.”

Senior VicePresident for Stu-dents and Enroll-ment Jean Eddywrote in an e-mail to the Jus-tice that she,along with Deanof Student LifeRick Sawyer andAssistant VicePresident for Stu-dents and Enroll-ment Frank Urso, routinely met withGray, of whom she is “a huge fan.” “Heis not shy about representing studentinterests and has convinced me onmore than one occasion to look atthings in a different way,” she wrote.

Union Director of CommunicationsJamie Ansorge ’09 said that Gray hasput in “tremendous time and energy”over his tenure as Union president. “Ikind of feel like he’s done his part andthat [Gray] should also have a collegeexperience,” Ansorge said.

Union Director of Executive AffairsJess Blumberg ’09 said that she re-spected Gray’s decision and that hehas done “an incredible amount ofwork over the last two years to bringthe Union to where it is now.” She em-phasized that the Union must continueto “make sure that the Universitystands by its commitment to the Stu-dent Bill of Rights.” Blumberg believesthat OSRA has been “a huge thing thatwas born under [Gray]” and should besupported in its efforts to protect stu-dent rights.”

Nipun Marwaha ’12, the MassellQuad senator, thinks that the Unionshould “mainly continue to pressureadministration and higher-ups aboutgetting students involved in all the[academic and financial] issues thatare going on.”

Reflecting on his term as Unionpresident Gray said, “I’ve loved it thisyear; it is a lot, but I’ve enjoyed it.”

The admissions recruitmentproject to recruit the top 500 appli-cants for the Class of 2013 has notbeen successful, according to Deanof Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe.

Jaffe stated that about 90 facultymembers had volunteered to be inthe recruitment initiative. How-ever, he said that he is unsureabout the number of students whohave been in contact with facultymembers.

The project, undertaken by theOffice of Admissions and the Of-fice of the Dean of Arts and Sci-ences was initiated to encouragestudent enrollment by putting thetop admitted students in touchwith with a member of the Bran-deis faculty.

Prof. Steven Burg (POL) said,“My understanding is that fewer[prospective] students asked totalk to a faculty member.” Burgadded that, “the success [of theprogram] is bringing the class in.”

Prof. Sarah Lamb (ANTH) said,

[The faculty welcomes] any oppor-tunity that lets us chat more withthe prospective students. If it canhelp recruit an excellent class,we’re excited about that becausestudents are what really make theUniversity successful.”

Prof. Timothy Hickey (COSI)said, “There is a feeling that thiskind of one-on-one interactionwith prospective students can bereally helpful for recruitment, andthere is an effort to expand it.”

Jaffe also said the decision tochange how Open House is runwas made last week. Open Housewill move from “the impersonalsetting [of Gosman Sports and Con-vocation Center] to the nicer aca-demic buildings,” Jaffe said.

Jaffe explained that studentswho will attend Open House andare interested in the creative artswill go to Spingold Theater Center,whereas those interested in thesciences will be in the new Carl J.Shapiro Science Complex.

Students interested in the hu-manities and the social scienceswill meet in Rapaporte TreasureHall.

Lamb explained, “It helps[prospective] students see otherimportant spaces on campus, andit helps that [the academic build-ings] are a little bit smaller andmore attractive than Gosman.”

STUDY ABROAD

■ The criteria includes theacademic and intellectualfit of the program and anintercultural learning plan.

By ALANA ABRAMSONJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

ADMISSIONS

■ Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe alsosaid changes will be madeto how Open House is run.

By REINA GUERREROJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Recruitment project notan immediate success

STUDENT UNION

■ Student Union PresidentJason Gray ’10 announcedthat will not run for re-elec-tion next month. Gray wonthe Union elections last year.

By NASHRAH RAHMANJUSTICE EDITOR

Hornstein anniversaryPresident and CEO of Timberland Jeffrey Swartz delivered the 40th Anniversary Lecturefor the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at the University. The event,titled “Jewish Leadership in the 21st Century: Social Entrepreneurship in RecessionaryTimes,” was held in Rapaporte Treasure Hall in Goldfarb Library last Sunday.

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Brandeis is taking part in Recy-cleMania, a recycling competitionamong 202 universities that aims toencourage college students to recy-cle more in order to reduce waste, ac-cording to the Brandeis Web site.

Participating schools are rankedaccording to which collects thelargest amount of recyclables percapita, has the least amount of trashper capita or has the highest recy-cling rate. Over a 10-week period,such data is collected and comparedwith results from other universities.The winner will be announced at theend of March.

RecycleMania is a project of theCollege and University RecyclingCouncil and is governed by a com-mittee composed of professionals in-volved with sustainability issues oncollege campuses.

Since January Brandeis’ recy-cling percentage was 8 percent, ac-cording to SustainabilityCoordinator Janna Cohen-Rosenthal’03. She explained that the recyclingrate is calculated as the percentageof waste against the percentage of re-cycling. Cohen-Rosenthal said thatthe latest data as of mid- Februarystates that Brandeis is ranked 183out of 202 colleges and universitiesin the RecycleMania.

Eco-Reps, student helpers to thesustainability coordinator in eachquad or housing area, have been as-sisting in RecycleMania efforts bygiving recycling grades and com-ments to each individual floor, ac-cording to Cohen-Rosenthal.

Cohen-Rosenthal believes that inlight of Brandeis’ low recycling rate,it is unlikely that the University willwin. However, she said that it is stillcrucial to continue efforts to in-crease the University’s recyclingrate and decrease overall waste.

If the recycling rate doubles to 16percent, there will be free ice creamavailable for the entire Universitycampus on Earth Day, April 22, saidCohen-Rosenthal. She coordinatedthe prize with Aramark in order tocreate excitement over RecycleMa-nia.

Students for Environmental Ac-tion is working to promote and aidthe Eco-Reps in their efforts to teachstudents about RecycleMania, ac-cording to President of SEA MattSchmidt ’11.

Schmidt said, “We are not takinga huge role this year because wehave the Eco-Reps. … We are launch-ing a new recycling awareness pro-grams with posters and flyers to helprid some of the confusion that recy-cling can cause.” He said that the ini-tiatives will begin before the end ofthis month.

Cohen-Rosenthal said, “In general,just reducing your use of somethingas simple as plastic coffee cups canreally help the environment [and]help the school increase the Recycle-Mania rates because it is not a per-centage of how you [the school]recycles; it’s a percentage of howmuch [the school] recycle versushow much waste [the school] pro-duces.”

Brandeis plans to continue to par-ticipate in RecycleMania in futureyears, said Cohen-Rosenthal andSchmidt.

Cohen-Rosenthal, as well as theEco-Reps and SEA, hopes the schoolcan double their rate because “itwould be a huge success and step to-ward making Brandeis a more envi-ronmentally conscious university.”

Special Assistant to the Presidentof Legal Seafoods Dr. David A. Tic-chi, who has been legally blindsince birth, discussed discrimina-tory attitudes shown toward peoplewith disabilities in the workplace atan event sponsored by the StudentUnion Committee on Disabilities.

Ticchi, who is also the supervisorof the School-to-Career program atNewton High School, explained thathis vision is so diminished that hecan only distinguish whether it isdaytime or nighttime. However, heemphasized that his father encour-aged him “to do virtually every-thing” in order to ensure that hecould lead a normal life with hiscondition.

Ticchi related that although “nopublic school system was under anylegal obligation to accept a studentwith a disability [until 1973],” hewas able to attend public school be-cause of his parents’ efforts to ad-dress discrimination within thecommunity. Ticchi noted that spe-cial education did not exist untilafter the 1950s. At the time, moststudents went to Perkins School forthe Blind, but he said that his par-ents made sure he went to the WestBridgewater Public School Systembecause they wanted him to be edu-cated with his peers regardless ofhis disability.

Ticchi said it was not until aftercollege that he first began to feel theharsh realities of discrimination.Although he wanted to work morethan anything, Ticchi found himselfunable to land a job due to what heperceived as discrimination. So in-stead of working, he chose to join a

Jesuit volunteer corps, and hetaught in a Native American reser-vation in New Mexico. He eventu-ally realized that he loved to teachand chose to attend Harvard Uni-versity, where he received a mas-ter’s and doctorate in education.

Throughout the discussion, Tic-chi frequently offered advice gainedthrough his experience dealingwith discrimination and codepen-dency. “What is most important inlife is how we treat others and howtrustworthy we are,” he said. Hestated that even he, a blind man,cares about his own appearance; de-

spite the fact that he can’t tell if hishair is combed or his clothes match,he still wants to make a good im-pression.

Chair of the Student Union Com-mittee on Disabilities RebeccaSchulman ’09 thought that the eventwas a success. She said that it was“You could tell that [Ticchi] caredabout educating students and edu-cating them about disabilities.”

Otis Monroe ’12 said that he “didnot know anything at all about howsomeone who is blind deals with[his or her disability],” until hear-ing Ticchi speak.

University participates in recycling competition

CAMPUS SPEAKER STUDENT LIFE

■ Brandeis is taking part inRecycleMania with 202other schools. The winnerwill be notified in March.

By DESTINY AQUINOJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

■ Dr. David A. Ticchi who islegally blind discussed thetreatment of disabled people in the workforce.

By SAM DATLOFJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSION: Dr. David A. Ticchi, special assistant to thepresident of Legal Seafoods, spoke to the Brandeis community last Wednesday.

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The Student Union has put on holdits initiative to lobby the Massachu-setts state legislature to adopt theUniform Prudent Management of In-stitutional Funds Act, which wouldease endowment restrictions on non-profit institutions, according toUnion Director of CommunicationsJamie Ansorge ’09.

“Due to the currently large agendaof the Student Union, we’ve decidedto hold off on the project,” Ansorgewrote in an e-mail to the Justice.While the Student Union was origi-nally excited about the large-scaleadvocacy project, Ansorge said in aninterview with the Justice that“there is much to be done on cam-pus, and that will remain our focus.”

Student Union President JasonGray ’10 and Ansorge originally helda meeting with campus leaders todiscuss the possibility of a campaignin support of UPMIFA March 1. An-sorge told the Justice that the cam-pus leaders in attendance includedDaniel Millenson ’09 from StudentAnti-Genocide Coalition, David

Emer ’09 from College Democratsand Shanna Rifkin ’11 from Democ-racy for America.

Vice President and Chief Operat-ing Officer Peter French wrote in ane-mail to the Justice that when hewas approached by students whotried to organize the project, he toldthem “that the University encour-aged their efforts and that their ef-forts would likely be helpful.”

French wrote in e-mail to the Jus-tice that he still believes that achange to the current UMIFA lawwould be a positive change for Bran-deis.

Ansorge wrote in his e-mail thatthe Union still supports the Associa-tion of Independent Colleges and

Universities in Massachusetts in itseffort to lobby the state legislature toadopt UPMIFA.

“We are glad that Brandeis hasjoined these calls for change. How-ever, a lobbying effort of the statelegislature is a very complicated,time consuming and long term proj-ect,” Ansorge wrote.

Ansorge also wrote that althoughthe Union will not organize the stu-dent initiative at this time, “if theBrandeis administration asks forour assistance in the effort, we willheed the call.”

During this time, “[the Union] en-courages students to write theirstate representatives in support ofUPMIFA,” Ansorge wrote.

UJ votesagainstAyersSMR

THE JUSTICE ● TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009 7

The Student Union Judiciaryruled unanimously that a $900 Sen-ate Money Resolution to help bringBill Ayers and Robert H. King tocampus violated the Union’s consti-tution because the events were not“Union projects,” according to theUJ’s majority opinion.

The statement released by theUnion Judiciary last Tuesdaystated that “in order to qualify as aUnion project, the project must, atthe very least, represent a true col-laborative effort between the Unionand another individual or group.”

The case was brought before theUJ March 7, when Senator for theClass of 2009 Eric Alterman filed apetition against the Senate and Sen-ators for the Class of 2011 Alex Mel-man and Lev Hirschhorn, whosupported the Union’s SMR, which-was passed March 1.

Alterman claimed the SMR wasin violation of bylaw Article IX, Sec-tion 1. The Bylaw states, “All Sen-ate Money Resolutions must beused for Student Union Govern-ment projects and/or operations.”Hirschhorn and Melman arguedthat the Ayers event was alwaysmeant to be a Senate project. As theAyers’ visit had the support of theSocial Justice Committee, Melmanand Hirschhorn argued that it wasa Senate project.

Referring to previously passedSMRs such as the Brandeis OpenMic Series’ presentation on activistpoet Jason Paul and the WinterGala in support of hopeFound, themajority decision, written by ChiefJustice Rachel Graham Kagan ’09,stated, “Just because these in-stances were never ruled on by theUJ does not make them useable asprecedent. Precedent based on aflawed reading of the rule is not le-gitimate and incorrect past practiceis no justification for future ac-tion.”

UJ Associate Justice JudahMarans ’11 told the Justice “that itis important to remember that whatthe senators were attempting to do,[bringing the event to campus], wasnot disingenuous. Simply the wayin which they went about doing it,[seeking money from the Senate fora non-Senate project], went againstthe spirit of the written StudentUnion law.”

Alterman commented, “I thinkthat worthwhile projects where theplanners want to involve the Unionin a significant way will still be ableto bring their projects before thediscretionary fund as long as theyshow that they’re not solely involv-ing the Union for financial rea-sons.”

Hirschhorn stated, “I feel the rul-ing sets a bad precedent because theSenate Discretionary [Fund] shouldbe used to support and fund projectson campus, and I think this se-verely limits the Senate’s ability tosupport projects that were origi-nally created by clubs.”

Castle Senator Nathan Robinson’11, the Union’s counsel, said, “I dofeel the verdict sets a poor prece-dent for future uses of Senatemoney and greatly restricts whatthe Senate can do with its discre-tionary money, which should be leftup to [the Union’s] discretion.”

He added, “I do think a number ofour arguments and points weremisinterpreted or misconstrued bythe justices. Perhaps it’s our faultfor not presenting in the most clearway we could.”

The University Counsel is cur-rently in the process of reviewingthe Student Bill of Rights before itis added to University policy, ac-cording to Student Union PresidentJason Gray ’10.

A draft of the bill was submitted tothe counsel last week by Dean of Stu-dent Life Rick Sawyer, who workedin conjunction with Director of Stu-dent Rights and Advocacy LauraCohen ’09 and Gray.

Both Gray and Cohen believe thatSawyer will approve the bill. “I ex-pect that within the next few days,the Student Bill of Rights will besigned by the Department of Studentof Life and the Student Govern-ment,” Gray said.

Sawyer could not be reached for

comment by press time.One of the major changes pro-

posed by the Student Bill of Rightsdeals with the right of a student tohave an adviser question anotherstudent in the case of sexual mis-conduct or physical assault.

Gray said that he began the Stu-dent Bill of Rights initiative lastyear when he was a member of theStudent Union Executive Board.Gray said that the policy at that timewas “lacking clear definition ofwhat students’ rights were; it wascumbersome, hard to read, ambigu-ous and at times [it] didn’t affordstudents the rights they deserved.”At that time, Gray convened a com-mittee of students to decide whatrights students wanted and needed.With those proposals in hand, Grayand Cohen began working with theDepartment of Student Life to pro-duce a student bill of rights.

Both Cohen and Gray cited theproposed changes to the current pol-icy dealing with sexual misconductand assault hearings as importantaspects of the Student Bill of Rights.According to Cohen, the current

guidelines dictate that the accusedand accusing students must ques-tion each another in judicialprocesses.

Cohen wrote in an e-mail to theJustice, “This can be a traumatic ex-perience, especially in the event of asexual misconduct or physical as-sault hearing.”

Cohen wrote, “The most currentlanguage [in the Student Bill ofRights] would specifically allow astudent (either accused or accusing)to ask his/her [adviser] to questionthe opposing student in the case ofeither a sexual misconduct or phys-ical assault hearing.”

Cohen explained in the e-mail that“This right is particularly impor-tant because having served as an[adviser] in several hearings; it canbe a traumatic and deeply uncom-fortable experience to question theopposing student.”

Director of Student Developmentand Conduct Erika Lamarre wrotein an e-mail to the Justice, “Studentrights are already protected as amatter of University policy. Therules and rights of Brandeis stu-

dents are communicated in theRights and Responsibilities hand-book and through the communica-tion faculty and staff have every daywith students. … When a student isdocumented for a violation of Rightsand Responsibilities he/she is pro-tected by confidentiality and everystudent is treated fairly, informed oftheir rights and gets to participatefully in their conduct process.”

Gray, however, said that theRights and Responsibilities sectionof the University Handbook is “20pages long, [and] no one reads it. Itwas important, especially givensome of the rights-related questionswe had last semester, to actuallyhave a document” that outlines theactual rights of students.

Gray said that there has beenoverwhelming student support forthe Student Bill of Rights.

Cohen wrote that if the bill ispassed, it will appear as an additionto the Rights and Responsibilitiessection of University policy.

Lamarre, however, wrote that shewas unaware of any plans to add thebill to Rights and Responsibilities.

STUDENT UNION

■ The Union Judiciary overturned a SenateMoney Resolution to fund Bill Ayers’s visit.

By DESTINY AQUINOJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

STUDENT UNION

Student bill of rights under review■ A draft of the Student Billof Rights is currently beingreviewed to be included inUniversity judiciary policy.

By HARRY SHIPPSJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Immigration implicationDirector of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies Steven Camarota speaks at the Zinner Distinguished Lecturetitled “After the Crossing: Implications of Alternative Policy Responses to Illegal Immigration” last Wednesday.

JULIAN AGIN-LIEBES/the Justice

By MICHELLE LIBERMANJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

■ The Student Union has decided to hold off on theinitiative because of its currently large agenda.

BUDGET

Student Union halts UPMIFA lobby effort

now are confidential because we donot want discussion of these num-bers to hinder further communica-tion with outside parties regardingthese numbers. We will release themwhen they are set.”

Callahan could not be reached forcomment, while Collins declined toelaborate on his comments to TheHoot.

Senator for the Class of 2011 andDFA member Alex Melman, who ishelping to plan the event along withHirschhorn and the rest of DFA, alsodeclined to comment.

The Senate voted 10-8 at its March1 meeting to provide $900 of SenateDiscretionary Fund money to helpfund Ayers’ and King’s visits to cam-pus. King, a former member of theBlack Panther Party, spent 32 yearsin prison after being wrongly con-victed of murder. However, the UJruled that the SMR went against theUnion Constitution last Tuesday.

Carrie Mills ’12, a member of DFA,said that she could not disclose thebudget of the Ayers visit.“[Hirschhorn] is specifically work-ing with Ed Callahan and MarkCollins to bring the event to a differ-ent venue that would provide approx-imately 200 students the opportunityto attend with adequate security thatis still in [DFA’s] budget.” She saidthat the 200 students would be chosenthrough a lottery.

Mills also pointed out that “thereis still a very good possibility thatAyers will come to campus. [Thecoordinators] are just caught in thelogistics of the entire situation.”

Nicole Chabot-Wiefeich of theOffice of Student Activities said in aninterview, “I have no recent informa-tion about where the Ayers eventwould be held or if it is still active.”

Hirschhorn told the Justice March3 that DFA was contributing $500 andSDS was contributing $1500, as wellas that the clubs had also received$400 from the Brenda Meehan SocialJustice in Action Grant.

she said.Boston attorney Edward Dangel

III, who has been hired by Chair ofthe Rose Board of OverseersJonathan Lee to pursue legal blocksto the administration’s decision toclose the museum, said that theadministration needs to address the“very serious question” of “ifBrandeis is allowed to break up thiscollection and close this museum,[whether] other people in Americawho have important collections andimportant things to give and a spe-cific intent in mind for that gift willgive in the future.”

Prior to Meryl Rose’s presenta-tion of the statement, Michael Rush,the director of the Rose ArtMuseum, told the audience that“the Rose Art Museum as we knowit will not exist after the middle ofMay [because] the University sawthe museum as a plan to assist itsfiscal crisis.”

The panelists who presented afterMeryl Rose’s statement, literaryscholar and Harvard professorStephen Greenblatt, former PoetLaureate and Boston Universityprofessor Robert Pinsky and novel-ist Claire Messud, stressed theimportance of art and the preserva-tion of culture.

Greenblatt stated that “a univer-sity without a modern art museumcannot fully make good on the cog-nitive life of introducing arts to theuniversity.”

“We must have a Rose ArtMuseum because we cannot teachchildren of the 21st century how tosolve problems without modern andcontemporary art,” Greenblatt saidduring his presentation.

Pinsky said in an interview with

the Justice that the administra-tion’s decision to close the museumwould have a detrimental effect onstudents. “It’s as though theUniversity is risking saying to thestudents, ‘We don’t know how totake care of you,’” he said.

Prof. Mark Auslander (ANTH),who moderated the event, said in aninterview that the Rose familystatement showed the impact of theUniversity’s decision on its bene-factors. “The Rose family statementis enormously powerful because itshows the impact of closing themuseum on the wider philanthropiccommunity,” he said.

Provost Marty Krauss, whoattended the event, said in an inter-view with the Justice that the sym-posium would not affect the admin-istration’s decisions regarding themuseum.

“This is a community event forintellectuals who love the art to talkabout the nature of the art. It is nota strategy meeting. The type ofevent tonight is not designed tomake policy but to give people aspace to talk,” she said.

Pinsky said, “[The symposium] isnot a policy meeting. It is a meetingabout values. Values should deter-mine policy. If policy meetings areonly determined by policy, they’retautological, they’re futile.”

However, Beccah Ulm ’11, whoorganized the Rose sit-in protest onJan. 29, said that she hoped theevent would influence the policytoward the Rose.

“I find it frustrating that we’reonly taken seriously when we gothrough the avenues set up by theadministration,” Ulm said.

Prof. Mary Baine Campbell (ENG)later said in a phone interview withthe Justice, “The detrimental

effects [of closing the Rose] for theUniversity as a liberal arts institu-tion are especially frightening tome not just for practical reasons,but that I believe it is possible tolose a part of the human heritage.”

The symposium occurred shortlyafter Krauss announced by e-mailthe formation of a new committee tohandle the future of the Rose ArtMuseum.

The tentatively namedCommittee on the Future of theRose will be chaired by Prof. JerrySamet (PHIL) and will consist of fac-

ulty, staff, alumni and graduate andundergraduate students, accordingto the e-mail.

Samet wrote in an e-mail to theJustice, “The committee will onlymake recommendations; it will notmake final decisions. The broaderBrandeis community will have anopportunity to digest and commenton the report, and the administra-tion will ultimately make a recom-mendation to the Board ofTrustees.”

Samet wrote in his e-mail that thecommittee will try to develop a

timeline at its first meeting thiscoming Thursday.

Krauss said in an interview withthe Justice, “Based upon the reac-tion on campus to news about theRose Art Museum, it was clear thatwe needed a broader representationof different constituencies of theUniversity,” she said.

“My hope is that our recommen-dations will contribute to the for-mation of a plan for the Rose ArtMuseum that will be embraced bythe community at large,” Sametwrote in an e-mail to the Justice.

MUSEUM: Rose family condemns Univ

BUDGET: French: Univ stillfaces a $5 M budget gap

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ROSE INTERVIEW: A news crew interviews Prof. Jerry Samet (PHIL) after the Rose family presented a statement Monday night.MAX BREITSTEIN MATZA/the Justice

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Univ policieschanged

The faculty voted in a first

reading to increase the stu-

dent residency requirement

from seven semesters to

eight semesters and also

voted in second readings to

pass the Business major and

the Justice Brandeis

Semester.

Dean of Arts and Sciences

Adam Jaffe explained that

with the Justice Brandeis

Semester, which counts for

one semester of credit, stu-

dents could elect to complete

two JBS semesters under the

current residency require-

ment of seven semesters.

“We could end up with stu-

dents who are on campus

doing ordinary courses for

only five semesters, which

many of us think is not aca-

demically recommendable,”

he said.

Jaffe also said that

between five and seven per-

cent of non-midyear students

elect to graduate in

December. “By giving them

the option of leaving early, we

lose money when they do so.

… It’s hard for us to replace

them.”

A number of faculty still

expressed reservations

about the Justice Brandeis

Semester.

“I can never remember the

faculty approving a program

with so little information,”

Prof. Jerry Cohen (AMST)

said. “Compared to the busi-

ness school, there is no

specificity in this suggestion,”

he added.

Prof. Marya Levenson

(ED) spoke in favor of the

proposal, saying “I think we

should give a liberal arts

message as well as a busi-

ness message.”

SPEAKER:Ayers visitin question

move pretty fast,” French said atthe faculty meeting, adding thatthe University has some moretime until April and May to makedecisions about fiscal 2010, whichstarts July 1.

Brandeis has already undertak-en budget adjustments of $9.7 mil-lion in fiscal 2009, which endsJune 30, French said. Thisincludes $4.7 million in one-timefunds such as bequests, “a giftreceived after death pursuant to awill,” French wrote in an e-mail tothe Justice, and $5 million in budg-et cuts and other revenues such asincome from the Heller School forSocial Policy and Managementand the International BusinessSchool. By the end of fiscal 2009,Brandeis have will reduced itsAcademic staff by 5.4 percent andstaff in French’s department by 9.5percent, as part of a total staffreduction of 6 percent.

French said that the Universitypreviously “felt there would beadditional deficits for this fiscalyear.” In an e-mail to the Justicehe wrote, “... now, 9 months intothe fiscal year, we have moreinformation about spring-semes-ter revenues and actual incomefrom short-term investments, sothat we can make more accurateyear-end projections.”

French said that there has beena reduction of student-related rev-enues due to a smaller midyearclass this semester. The FacultyBudget Committee’s Feb. 26 pres-entation noted that there were 40fewer students this semester.French also said that more stu-dents opted to leave this semesterdue to the lower than expectedmidyear enrollment, studentsmoving offcampus or graduatingearly. “We’ve also seen a drop inoccupancy in the residence hallsmore than we’ve experienced[before],” French said, citingincreases in off-campus housing.

French said that there has beena complete elimination of interestfrom working capital, funds theUniversity moved from moneymarket funds to U.S. treasurybonds last fall. French explainedin an e-mail to the Justice that thetreasury bonds protect the princi-pal value of the funds while themoney market funds were losingvalue. In prior years, interestearned on working capital was asource of revenue for theUniversity’s operating budget, hewrote. “[Now] those treasurieshave in essence been paying zero,”he said at the faculty meeting. Headded that the University is cur-rently readjusting its gift targetfor both fiscal 2009 and fiscal 2010,projecting a decrease to $11 mil-lion.

French said one source of addi-tional funds could be added use ofthe $85 million reserves, but hesaid, “We’re getting awfully closeto overusing them.” He said theadministration has been in discus-sion with Board of Trustees aboutusing another $2 million from thereserves. The University is pro-jecting another $1 million inbequests, adding up to $3 million.“We do have need for another $2million” to fill the rest of the $5million budget gap, French said.

French discussed a number ofpreliminary options theUniversity could take in order toclose the budget gap. “None ofthese are great options,” Frenchsaid. “President [Jehuda]Reinharz, the trustees and the sen-ior administration all want toavoid actions that negativelyaffect our dedicated and hard-working faculty and staff,” hewrote in an e-mail to the Justice.

French explained that theUniversity still needs to close a $5million gap during this fiscal yearand a $6.9 million gap in the nextyear. “The reality is, however,

that we must consider suchoptions, just as other colleges anduniversities are doing in this ter-rible economy.

French also said there had beendiscussion about raising parkingfees, noting that there were plansto form a committee of faculty,staff and students to consider howto implement such a fee. He pro-jected that the University couldearn $700,000 from such a fee.

“We could go back to reducingthe operating budgets,” Frenchsaid. He explained that it was toolate to do this for this fiscal year,but that for next fiscal year “we’dbe looking at 12- to 15-percent[cuts] of all operating expenses.”

Another possibility would be toask for another $2 million from the$85 million reserves, which areprojected to run out at the end ofnext fiscal year. “[We had a] verylong extensive discussion withkey board members today,” hesaid. “They would not do that;they did not think that was pru-dent [given] how close we are toexhausting [the reserves].” In fis-cal 2010 the University could alsosell assets, French said.

Other options the University isconsidering include staff fur-lough, where staff members wouldbe out of work with no pay for twoweeks this fiscal year and for sixweeks next fiscal year, reducingfaculty and staff salaries by eightpercent this fiscal year and sixpercent next fiscal year and sus-pending payments into retirementfunds for three months this fiscalyear and for nine months next fis-cal year. “Our goal is to minimizeimpact on students and academicprograms,” he wrote in an e-mailto the Justice.

French explained that an imple-mentation of these options couldinvolve a mixing and matching ofthese possible options.

8 TUESDAY, MARCH 17 , 2009 ● THE JUSTICE

Normally when Justice Rosalie SilbermanAbella of the Supreme Court of Canada is infront of crowds, she is wearing a long blackrobe and is speaking about constitutional law.However, last Sunday, Abella spoke to an au-dience at Brandeis while dressed in a businesscasual white suit about something more basicand accessible than constitutionallaw—human rights.

Abella took the stage at the InternationalStudent Lounge to speak as part of Project Gen-der, Culture, Religion and Law as sponsored bythe Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in dedicationto Diane Markowicz. She was invited to speakas part of the 2nd Annual Markowicz MemorialLecture on Gender and Human Rights.

Dr. Lisa Fishbayn, director of the Project onGender, Culture, Religion and the Law, wroteto the Justice in an e-mail that “the lecture se-ries honors lawyers, judges, scholars and ac-tivists whose work explores the tensionsbetween women’s rights and religious laws.”

A 62-year-old Jewish justice on the CanadianSupreme Court, Abella has made a major im-pact on Canadian law. In her opinion in the2008 case of Bruker v. Markowitz , she recog-nized the rights of Jewish wives to sue for dam-ages if their husbands use their power underJewish law to deny them a divorce. Sylvia Neil,the founder and chair of the HBI’s Project onGender, Culture, Religion and Law, said thatthe decision was especially remarkable be-cause of the way Abella was able to “make ac-commodations for human rights and justice.”

Abella began her speech by equating humanrights to a Rubik’s Cube.

“To solve the [human rights] puzzle all thepieces had to fit together, and to fit all thesepieces together requires skill, determination,luck and hard work. … You just keep tryinguntil you get it right,” Abella said.

Abella also talked about social justice in re-gard to women and how she believes the per-ception of women’s rights has changed overtime.

“Until the 1960s, nothing had really changed[about the perception of women’s rights]. Awoman’s first duty was [in] the home,” Abellasaid.

However, Abella explained that she neverfelt the scorn of discrimination herself. Goingto law school in the late 1960s, she found thatbecoming a lawyer was a matter of will and notletting anyone tell her she could not achieveher goal. Still, from exposure to her clients inthe 1970s, Abella learned that injustice andprejudice did exist for women in the form oflegal and employment discrimination.

But the people of the 1970s wouldn’t stand forinequality, Abella said.

“We went from a majority of mothers in thehome to a majority of mothers in the laborforce,” she said.

The current nine-person Canadian SupremeCourt includes four female judges, one ofwhom is the chief justice. To reassure the au-dience, Abella poked fun at affirmative actionas she said, “The five men on the CanadianSupreme Court—every one of them is there onmerit.”

Although many women have risen to impor-tant positions in business, academics, politicsand arts, there are still millions who believe,as Abella put it, “the glass ceiling is just an-other household object to polish.”

Abella pointed out that “most women stillearn less than they should, get hired or pro-moted less than they should, worry about as-saults more than they should and get morestress than they should. … They’re out there.”She added that there are still women out there

waiting “for human rights to hit them.” In 1990, the United Nations, at the first as-

sessment after the “decade on women,” con-cluded, “There has even been stagnation inplaces [concerning women’s rights] wherethere would’ve been progress.”

The decade on women, which spanned from1976 to 1985, stressed equality, developmentand peace. Abella equated this to the “wagegaps that remain steadily in place … and thework-family discussion that has captured theworld’s interest but not its attention.”

Abella concluded with three lessons thatpeople should take away from history.

Abella explained that the first lesson is “in-difference is injustice’s incubator” and thatwhen people do not care, human rights abuses

can run rampant. She equated this to theNuremberg trials after WWII when some of theworst Holocaust offenders were put on trial. Asthe child of Holocaust survivors, Abella ex-plained that, although she never asked her fa-ther if he took any comfort in the conviction ofthe worst offenders, she knew he would haverather the world have been outraged before thehuman rights atrocities were committed.

The second lesson is, Abella said, “it’s notjust what you stand for but what you stand upfor.”

The third and final lesson came out of a per-sonal story about her father’s experience afterthe end of World War II. Working as an ac-claimed lawyer in the American sector of Ger-many, he introduced Eleanor Roosevelt before

she spoke to the displaced persons camp whenshe camped in West Germany. He was gratefulfor the American legal system. He told Roo-sevelt that they had nothing to give exceptthese few children. Tearing up, Abella spoke ofhow children are the future of American jus-tice. She concluded, “Never forget how theworld looks to those who are vulnerable. This,above all, is what human rights is about.”

In reaction to the lecture, Julia Simon-Mishel ’09 wrote to the Justice in an e-mailthat, “Justice Abella was a truly inspiringspeaker who has actually tackled issues ofhuman rights and gender in her work as aSupreme Court justice, and the magnitude ofher vision and insistence on progress forwomen’s rights moved me beyond words.”

just VERBATIM | Thomas Edison

ON THIS DAY... FUN FACTeatures f In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachevwas elected the first executivepresident of the Soviet Union.

Dogs and cats consumeover $11 billion worth ofpet food a year.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed inoveralls and looks like work.

By IRINA FINKELJUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Human rightsJUDGEMENT DAY: As part of Project Gender, Culture, Religion and Law, Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada spoke last Sunday.

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A SupremeCourt justiceof Canadaspeaks aboutopportunityand equality

THE JUSTICE ● TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009 9

A Cappella Etc., an umbrella organi-zation that encompasses theUniversity’s 11 a cappella groups,recently received chartered statusfrom the Student Union, allowingthem to request funding from theFinance Board. The umbrella organi-zation must exist because, accordingto the Student Union bylaws, theUnion will only charter clubs that are“open to all members of the Brandeiscommunity,” meaning exclusive clubslike a cappella groups, which holdauditions, cannot receive F-Boardfunding.

But these groups should not need thehassle of an umbrella organization toobtain funds. The Union should havesimply removed this clause from itsbylaws. Instead of punishing exclusiveorganizations, it should celebrate thetalents of our peers.

While we understand that the Unionwants all members of the Brandeiscommunity to be able to participate inany club they choose, the Unionshould also take an interest in ensur-ing appropriate club quality. Clubslike these a cappella groups deserveUnion recognition to receive the fund-ing necessary to properly display theirtalents.

Furthermore, if an a cappella groupdoes not accept a prospective member,that individual student can alwaysaudition for a different group or starthis or her own.

A cappella groups are not the only

exclusive student clubs at Brandeis.Several of Brandeis’ student-run the-ater groups, such as TympaniumEuphorium, hold auditions, andalthough anyone can contribute to theproduction of the show, the club doesnot cast every student who auditionsin an acting role.

Yet these groups are still charteredand still request and receive moneyfrom the F-Board to use for their per-formances. Why shouldn’t a cappellagroups receive similar privileges sothat they can enhance their perform-ances as well? It appears to us that theUnion is already disregarding itsexclusivity policy in the case of the-ater groups.

We know that students are con-cerned about exclusivity with regardto Greek life on campus; however,changing this bylaw would not affectGreek life as there is already specificlanguage in the bylaws that bans fra-ternities and sororities.

In place of the current blanket policyagainst exclusive clubs, the Unionshould determine on a case-by-casebasis whether clubs are justifiablyexclusive. A policy that will permitclubs a reasonable amount of leewaywith respect to student qualificationswould actually be more inclusive byallowing more student organizationsto access club resources while still pre-venting an unfair exclusivity rule.

No need for umbrella group

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“It sucks for juniors andseniors who can’t live in theVillage.”

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“I think it’s pretty fair compared with otheruniversities’ systems.”

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“I’m glad I don’t have todeal with it.”

BECKY KUPCHAN ’09

—Women’s basketball headcoach Carol Simon praisesCaptain Cassidy Dadaos ’09after the Sectional Finals ofthe Division III NCAATournament. (See Sports,page 16)

Club exclusivity is justifiable

“She’s left her mark. As acoach, I mean, that’s why wecoach. Kids like [CassidyDadaos] are why you coach.”

10 TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009 ● THE JUSTICE

The job of a true human rights crusader is never fin-ished. And that is why it is surprising that a student bodythat claims to be so politically aware is so quiet at a timewhen there is so much at stake.

As a student at Brandeis, I often encounter the cam-paigning of social justice groups and groups like the anti-genocide organization STAND.

The focus of STAND and related organizations seems tobe promoting change by telling the student body thatgenocide is happening in Darfur, a claim that theInternational Criminal Court arrest warrant disputes,and that genocide is bad—something that I hope that noone would question.

If these organizations aim to end these human rightsatrocities and if Brandeis chapters want to effectivelymotivate students to play a role, their strategy seems to beineffective. The reason their campaigns don’t compelBrandeis students and Americans in general to act is thatthey do not tell us anything we don’t know already.

While campus advocacy for humanitarian aid is unde-niably important, if we truly care about making a differ-ence, we must acknowledge that awareness and aid aloneare not enough.

These problems call for a strategy change for studentson campus who are interested in increasing awareness,creating dialogue and ultimately, bringing about politicalchange. This starts with changing the dialogue from oneof “what” to one of “how.”

An example of this is not only telling us that people aredying in Darfur but also debating the political solutionsthat might stop it. The fact that the InternationalCriminal Court issued arrest warrants on Wednesday forthe Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir gives a freshopportunity for this.

Given the refusal of the Sudanese government to turnover their president, what should Western countries bedoing? Should they use political sanctions and leverage?Should they cooperate with governments and groups likeunderlings to al-Bashir that are perhaps politically“sketchy,” just so they can potentially bring such peopleto court?

And should the United States and its allies be willing todestroy Sudanese military aircraft if it continues to vio-late the United Nations ban on offensive military flights?

While these questions may divide the political power ofthe groups involved when individuals advocate for differ-ent solutions, it makes that advocacy that much more spe-cific and thus much stronger.

But in order to promote real change, we have to do morethan change the topic of discussion. We also have to applyour standards for political action across the board. Whilea group that strives to end all human rights abuses isbound for heartbreak, it is not enough to stand againsthuman rights abuses only in some cases.

Though they in no way diminish the atrocities inDarfur, bigger wars like the one that has killed 5.5 millionpeople in the Congo get only a fraction of the attention.There is no discussion of the convictions of the rebel lead-ers responsible for maiming thousands in Sierra Leone.

No discussion of the human rights trials trying theleaders of the Khmer Rouge, the group that killed 20 per-cent of the population in Cambodia. No discussion of thefact that those trials may end because there is not enoughfunding. No one fighting for action against the totalitari-an government of Burma. No one fighting to prevent thetotal absorption and cultural destruction of Tibet.

Though there is some effort to push awareness on a cou-ple of these issues, when it comes to human rights advo-cacy, we should expect more of ourselves to raise aware-ness of these issues among our peers.

As in elections, even the candidate who stands for thebest causes can lose with an unconvincing campaign. Ifwe ever want to see an end to abusive and oppressive gov-ernments, we cannot just address the problem at itsfringe.

To paraphrase French thinker Bernard-Henri Lévywhen discussing Bosnia, if it is a just cause, to respondwith the delivery of humanitarian aid is like bringingsandwiches to the gates of hell.

Reconsider Midnight BuffetThis past week, the Union Senate

voted to cut the budget for the annualMidnight Buffet from $5,000 to $3,000,citing current economic hardships andthe need for such events to remain“cost-beneficial.” While this editorialboard supports this prudent action, webelieve that the event could have beencut entirely. It’s true that the MidnightBuffet has been a staple of the finalexam period and is welcomed by manytired and overworked students, but itis a luxury we could certainly do with-out.

Without taking the budgetaryscalpel to every event on campus thatfeatures food and music, it is impor-tant to note that regardless of theMidnight Buffet’s status as an estab-lished tradition, it is neither an eventof cultural appreciation and remem-brance, à la Culture X, nor an artisticendeavor like Liquid Latex. With talkof fiscal wisdom cluttering conversa-tion campuswide, it seems that suchan indulgent event should be the firstitem cut from the list.

Though $3,000 is a small sum in thescope of the University’s larger budgetcrisis, the money available to studentsfor extracurricular activities is in farshorter supply as evidenced byFinance Board’s Regular Marathonresults this semester. The sum savedby canceling Midnight Buffet could beused to fund other clubs by being con-tributed to the pool the F-Board drawsfrom for Emergency Request meetings,or it could have been used to increasethe resources used toward other Unioninitiatives such as DeisBikes or usedto restore a steady flow of paper towels

to our restrooms.Midnight Buffet has always been a

fun event for students to come togetherin a common love of pizza, doughnuts,Tiki House cuisine and, of course, thechance to win free T-shirts simply byattending. In years past, Brandeis stu-dents have enjoyed the chance to lettheir hair down for a night of frivolityat the hands of the Union GovernmentFund.

However, in light of the University’scurrent hardships, it is not perhaps inthe best taste to continue one of theless characteristic and unique of ourcoveted campus traditions.

Only two weeks ago, this editorialboard cautioned against spending$3,000 on a cell phone signal amplifierfor Usdan at a time when contract pro-fessors are concerned for their employ-ment. To spend an equal sum on whatis essentially a party—something thatdoesn’t endure, like the signal amplifi-er—leads the student body further intofiscal irresponsibility.

All this is not a condemnation ofMidnight Buffet. Perhaps this fall,after the Rose Art Museum’s Warhol isin the hands of a Russian collector, theUniversity will be flush with contractprofessors and $3,000 sums alike. Untilthen, we students ought to engage insome of the same belt-tightening thatour administrators imposed onUniversity spending several monthsago.

The party planned to relieve ourstress before finals can wait until wecan honestly afford it.

Event an unnecessary luxury

To promote real change,social justice groupsneed to strategize better

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Teach Business properly at BrandeisTo the Editor:In view of today’s aggrandizing business

practices, I have been wondering what,exactly, is taught in the business schools.

Our businesspeople seem intent onsqueezing consumers dry. This, I believe, isa destructive, even anti-businesslike prac-tice. The current mindset of predatory capi-talism has consumed the idea of free enter-prise and led to what could be called gov-ernment enterprise. Greed, it appears, isnot good. Greed represents the “ambitioussacrifice of the many to the aggrandizementof the few,” according to Federalist PaperNo. 57.

It would be helpful if the nation had onebusiness school that recognized the impor-tance of cooperative capitalism to the econ-omy, an approach that could revive the ideaof free enterprise, which, of course, is afunction of liberty. It would be fitting if thatschool carried the name of Louis D.Brandeis, the great jurist who believed thatbusiness profits came from serving, notexploiting, employees and consumers.

—David R. Zukerman ’62

Reusing water bottles is practicalTo the Editor:I am currently studying abroad in South

America. Yesterday I was gratefully refreshedby refilling my BPA-free reusable water bottlefrom the bathroom faucet of a rural elementaryschool in Chile. The only consequence was myown happy hydration. No illness. No diarrhea.No bad taste. In the United States and in thecities of Massachussets in particular, our taxdollars support one of the cleanest, most regu-lated water supplies in the world. I encourageyou to at least try to change your habits. Youwill be pleasantly surprised with the qualityand convenience of public water sources, andyour wallet and our planet will thank you.

—Ned Crowley ’10

THE JUSTICE ● TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009 11

Is Bill Ayers really the type of person we shouldpay to come speak at this University? I’m askingthis question under the general impression thatthe man will not be speaking about elementaryeducation, his area of professorial expertise. If Iam mistaken and that is indeed the case, Iapplaud Democracy for America and Students fora Democratic Society for their desires to sharetheir interest in education reform with the rest ofthe University.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.DFA campaign coordinator Liza Behrendt ’11stated in an earlier interview with the Justicethat she first contemplated bringing Ayers tocampus during the 2008 presidential campaign.At that time, Ayers was on the media’s radar as amisleadingly divisive topic of conversationregarding then-presidential candidate BarackObama’s associations with him.

However, we shouldn’t bring Ayers here sim-ply because of a media storm that came and wentduring the campaign.

According to Behrendt, “Ayers has unique his-torical insight to share … especially in light ofBrandeis’ reputation for activism.” She alsoreferred to Ayers’ tendency to participate in“extreme activism,” and offered that bringingAyers here might allow us to question “the limitsof activism.”

But exactly what activism are we talkingabout? The tactics Ayers employed were unpro-ductive and certainly not aligned with any socialjustice mission we seek to follow at thisUniversity. Ayers was a founding member ofWeathermen. Later known as the WeatherUnderground Organization, this radical leftistgroup was responsible for creating domesticchaos in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Amongother activities, Ayers and others in the organi-zation detonated bombs in loud protest to theUnited States’ role in the Vietnam War.

In interview after interview, Ayers defends hisradical actions by noting that WUO bombingsnever hurt or killed a single person. This is, of

course, excluding those members of the organiza-tion that were killed when a bomb exploded pre-maturely in their Greenwich Village apartmentin New York City.

Yet if there was never intent to kill or hurt any-one, then what was the point of even usingbombs? This question may seem facetious, butthere’s something to it. If Ayers’ goal was a justand violent revolution to completely eliminatethe possibility of any further atrocities at thehands of a tyrannical government, then the use ofbombs at least makes sense. You usually needweaponry to overthrow a government, so if thathad been his goal then using bombs makes perfectsense. But that wasn’t his goal.

Ayers was trying to send a message. Obviously,using bombs to target buildings such as thePentagon was meaningful in a rather twistedway. But aside from making a very loud point, abomb is always a bomb. Dangerous protestmaneuvers such as bombings accomplished evenless with regard to altering U.S. foreign policythan the U.S. aerial bombings from the skies overSoutheast Asia accomplished with regard to con-taining communism. Bombs put people’s lives atrisk, bombmakers and bystanders alike. If injur-ing and killing were not Ayers’ intentions, thenthere was no reason for him to have used bombs.

The WUO’s bombs changed nothing. The U.S.involvement in Vietnam finally began to wanenot with the superficially meaningful detonationof a bomb in some government office but with theParis Peace Accords of 1973. It was the politicsbehind the war that changed—for all sidesinvolved.

Maybe bombing some noteworthy locationsduring the Vietnam War granted Ayers the illu-sion he was doing something worthwhile. But wedon’t need to feed into such a fruitless ideology ora now distant media cycle that obsessed over it.

I don’t particularly mind that Ayers is unre-pentant of the risks he took with his actions.That’s his business, not mine. But such risks donot fit in with any concept of social justice thatthis University represents. And we don’t need tospend thousands of dollars to figure that out.

Now, education reform, on the other hand—that’s something I’d certainly love to hear moreabout. But with the skyrocketing costs of bringingAyers to campus, I’m sure that we’re capable oflocating a less expensive person to come and talkto us about that.

Think twice about inviting Ayers to DeisHillelBUECHLERAND SO ON

READER COMMENTARY

Ayers, King are Brandeis ideals

The University Senate Judiciary commit-tee ruled last week that the $900 to bring BillAyers of Weather Underground and RobertH. King of the Black Panther Party wasunconstitutional. By the letter of the law,this may be true. But in a case like this, wemust look beyond the law to the spirit andhistory of Brandeis in order to fully under-stand what Ayers and King have to teach stu-dents.

Two radical conceptions were sustained inthe founding of Brandeis University.Sometimes, students forget just how radicalthey were. The first principle that Brandeiswas founded on was fairness in admissions;the second, justice across the board for allpeople. Brandeis was a beacon of hope andfairness in 1948 when lynching was still away for whites to terrorize blacks and manyresidents of suburbs were discriminatingagainst blacks, Catholics and Jews.

Some of the great agitators against segre-gation and ending a shameful war came fromBrandeis. The hilarious Abbie Hoffman usedto walk our campus grounds. He practicedguerrilla theater and actually tried to nomi-nate a pig for president in 1968. Though hehas since passed away, his unique legacy asan activist lives on.

Angela Davis graduated from Brandeis in1965. Once placed on FBI’s top 10 most want-ed list because a gun registered in her namewas used in a murder, her trial and acquittalwere among the most influential in the last50 years. When Ronald Reagan was governorof California, he waged a war against heracademic career. In 1970 he circulated amemo firing Davis for her political sympa-thies. He swore she would never teach in theUniversity of California system. She boldlyran against Reagan as vice president on theCommunist Party ticket and now teaches atUC-Santa Cruz.

Davis and Hoffman were both harsh intheir criticisms of the government and socie-ty. Likewise, Brandeis’ existence itself in thelate 1940s was a criticism of the problemswith the government and society in

American way of life. Bill Ayers and RobertH. King represent contemporaries ofHoffman and Davis. In the spirit of Brandeis’foundation, we should embrace these twopersonalities and welcome them to Brandeiswholeheartedly.

Distinguished alumni like Davis andHoffman fought for social justice. This tradi-tion of social justice survives in the StudentUnion’s Social Justice Committee. While theimage of the Black Panthers, King’s group,has been skewed in the public eye as a radi-cal leftist group, this group was primarilydedicated to the virtue of social justice thatwe still value today. The Black Panthersadvocated community solidarity. They pio-neered social programs, some of which are agreat deal like the federal programs. Theyexercised their Constitutional right to carryguns in order to point out California policeofficers’ biased tendency to follow a shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy.

Both the Panthers and the WeatherUnderground Organization, Ayers’ group,did unseemly things. Later on in the group’shistory, the Panthers tried to extort moneyfrom the producers of The Mack. Some para-noid Panthers shot people they thought wereFBI undercover agents. The WeatherUnderground participated in open violenceto end a war that was more violent thanmany can really imagine.

Because of these errors, members of thesegroups can teach students. Both the Panthersand the WUO were filled with young, idealis-tic, passionate people searching in some-times extreme ways to fix clear wrongs.Regardless of whether you agree with theirpolitics, these people have a special perspec-tive. They can teach students at a Universityfounded on radical ideas how far to takethose ideas. They paid for their activism andthey know the errors of youth better thanmost. Their messages and thoughts on theirexperience provide excellent learning oppor-tunities for students in how to properly andintelligently enact the ideals of justice thatBrandeis was founded on and that inspiredalumni like Hoffman and Davis. For such avaluable lesson, $900 is a small price for theUniversity to pay.

By ZACHARY MATUSHESKIJUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

It’s time to accept Brandeis Greek lifeA fifth fraternity has joined Greek life at

Brandeis. But what does that mean to thisUniversity? Sigma Alpha Mu now joins PhiKappa Psi, Zeta Beta Tau, Alpha Delta Phi andAlpha Epsilon Pi on the list of unrecognizedorganizations on campus. Although these aresome of the biggest names in the fraternityworld, they are still subject to the University’sunfaltering disapproval and thus forced toremain independent, secretive organizations.

Over 20 years ago, the Board of Trustees votedto prohibit all organizations whose membershipis determined by competency or interest andtherefore not open to all students. Formation offraternities and sororities is “inconsistent withthe principles of openness to which theUniversity is committed,” according to theRights & Responsibilities Handbook. Howevergood-natured as this rule may seem, theUniversity is in fact making the process of join-ing existing fraternities and sororities evenmore selective by limiting their presence. If theUniversity recognized such organizations, agreater number of national fraternities andsororities would be more likely to establishchapters on campus, and more students wouldbe able to be a part of them. Because theUniversity chooses not to recognize Greek life,the five fraternities are ultra-selective, directlycontradicting Brandeis’ rule.

Our school shouldn’t continue to ignore thepresence of Greek life: It’s here, it’s happeningand it’s popular. Fraternities and sororities willremain an integral part of Brandeis’ student lifewhether the University recognizes them or not.Many current and prospective students aredrawn to participate in fraternities and sorori-ties. There are many prospective students whowould be more likely to consider Brandeisbecause of increased availability of Greek life.

Of course, Brandeis is going to uphold its orig-inal decision until it is convenient to overturnit—much like Brandeis' dedication to the arts

was one of its highest priorities up until thisyear, when principles were replaced with budg-et cuts. As the economy continues to worsen,perhaps Brandeis will reconsider going againstits stated values again with an opportunity togain revenue by recognizing Greek organiza-tions. This is not a foreign concept: TheUniversity plans to close the Rose Art Museumand use the profits to reduce our deficit despiteits claim to be committed to the arts. OnceBrandeis realizes the added revenue that frater-nities would have to pay in “Greek fees” to theUniversity, it could choose to exploit this newsource. It is upsetting that our school goes backon its beliefs because of rough financial times,but it is apparent that they do. Though this is notan admirable habit, it could ultimately helpencourage the growth of Greek life on campus.

Another point that many fail to realize is howmuch money our school can potentially make byencouraging the establishment of more fraterni-ties and sororities. Let’s say the University pur-chased a few frat houses. For $389,000, the

University could have a four-bedroom house onMain Street. Six to eight students could live inthis house. The cost of an on-campus double ismore than $5,800 per year, on average. IfBrandeis charged the same to fraternity mem-bers to live in this house, the property would becompletely paid off in eight years. Brandeiswould be smart to invest in real estate that hasthe potential to increase in value over time.

It is not surprising that Greek life continues tothrive. Students clearly want it, and consideringthe general nature of adolescents to rebel againstauthoritative figures, they will continue to joinBrandeis’ unsanctioned fraternities and sorori-ties regardless of the University’s standpoint.This aspect of college life seems importantenough for students to go against rules and do itanyway. Brandeis should realize that Greek lifeis something that needs to be recognized.

The writer is a founding father and vicepresident of the Gamma Chi chapter of SigmaAlpha Mu.

By ANDREW RAMIREZSPECIAL TO THE JUSTICE

GUYS GONE GREEK: The brothers of Sigma Alpha Mu pose with their flag at their founding ceremony.PHOTO COURTESY OF ETHAN LUSTIG-ELGRABLY

AMHERST, Mass.—It’s Friday,March 13, which means MaryBassett has a doctor’s appointmentscheduled back home in Menton,N.Y., near Rochester. She said shehad waited a long time to schedulethe visit unaware she would have tomiss it.

When she learns that the women’sbasketball team, led by her grand-daughter, Jessica Chapin ’10, is setto play Muhlenberg College in theSweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament,Bassett knows her appointment canwait. Bassett hasn’t missed one ofChapin’s basketball games sincemiddle school and isn’t planning onbreaking that streak when hergranddaughter takes part inBrandeis’ deepest NCAATournament run in its history.

“I said, ‘I’m not going [to theappointment],’” Bassett says, laterjoking that “[Chapin] gave meorders last week that I had to cancelthe doctor’s appointment.”

At 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 12in Healdsburg, Calif., near SanFrancisco, Evelyn Radunich, 89,prepares to board a red-eye flight toLogan International Airport.Radunich does not have a streak onthe line like Bassett, but she tries togo watch her granddaughter,Cassidy Dadaos ’09, play as much aspossible. Dadaos’ parents, Merrileeand Jim Dadaos, join Radunich onthe flight, though for them, the tripis far more routine; they haverarely missed a home game this sea-son.

“A lot of parents drive six hoursto see their kids play,” MerrileeDadaos says. “The only difference isthat we fly.”

Bassett and Radunich are just twoof the many family members thatattended the Judges’ Sweet 16 andRound of Eight games last weekendto watch their kids play. The play-ers’ relatives made up the majorityof the Brandeis cheering section, asthe Department of Athletics did notsend a fan bus to either game, asthey did when the men’s basketballteam played in Plattsburgh, N.Y. inlast year’s NCAA Tournament.

“A lot students [sic] told us theyappreciated the fan bus option butpreferred to drive themselves. Soonly 11 seats on the fan bus sold inadvance. This wasn’t enough tocover the cost, and, therefore, wecanceled it,” Director of Athletics

Sheryl Sousa ’90 wrote in an e-mailto the Justice. She added that she“was pleased with student turnoutoverall, and particularly on Fridaynight [against Muhlenberg].”

The fans that did attend were cer-tainly active in the games, particu-larly the parents. Sitting two rowsbehind the Brandeis bench, Bassettsaid at halftime that “I’m not asactive as [Superfan] Alan Karon,”but with the Judges leading 34-16against Muhlenberg last Friday,Bassett, annoyed by what shethought was an offensive foul on the

Mules, jokingly offered the refereeher glasses.

“I just love going and I really lovesports,” Bassett says. “I have fourgrandchildren, and three of themare really active in sports.”

Bassett says she can’t rememberexactly when she started attendingall of Chapin’s sporting events, butthe six-hour trip to Brandeis fromMenton hasn’t stopped her orChapin’s parents.

Radunich, however, has earned acult following in the Judges duringDadaos’ career. Radunich says her

granddaughters call her “Tutu,”and the nickname stuck whenDadaos joined the Judges. Now,everyone on the Judges call herTutu.

“[Guard] Carmela Breslin [’10]came up to me and said, ‘Oh, hiTutu,’” Radunich recalls. “Thewhole team now calls me Tutu; even[coach] Carol Simon calls me Tutu[now].

When asked how the traditionbegan, Radunich praised her grand-daughter, saying “Cassidy’s thekind of person to start it. … She’s a

leader without being pushy, and sothe girls, being as close as they are,all continued.”

While the families were unable topropel the Judges to a Final Fourappearance, the players said theyappreciated their presence.

“It’s pretty special that we havepeople willing to give up days in theoffice and other commitments,”Cassidy Dadaos told reporters afterthe Judges’ win over Muhlenberg.“We’ve all given about 15 years tothe sport, and they’ve given up justas much as we have.”

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Anat Ben Nun ’09 and Ali Sax ’09knew that this past weekend’sDivision III National Championshipswould be the last indoor track meet inwhich they would compete together.

Ben Nun finished sixth in the triplejump, while Sax finished 10th in thesame event, earning Brandeis threepoints, the second-best finish of allUniversity Athletic Associationteams behind Emory University.Wartburg College won the women’s

championship.Entering the NCAA

Championships, Ben Nun confidentlysaid that her goal was to “jump morethan I have jumped at Brandeis overthe past four years.” She was almostable to accomplish her goal.

Ben Nun entered the NCAAChampionships seeded ninth, but sheleaped ahead of her preliminarygroup of eight on her second of threepreliminary jumps with a season-high 11.77-meter leap to qualify forthe finals. Entering the final threejumps, Ben Nun had the fourth-longest jump, but she failed toimprove on her second jump in thefinals and ultimately finished sixth.Ben Nun was victimized by thestrength of this year’s competition, asher 11.77-meter jump would haveplaced her second last year.Nonetheless, Ben Nun was named anAll-American for the third time inher career after missing her entire

junior season due to a knee injury.“The girls who jumped over 12

meters definitely deserved it morethan I did, but I did my best,” BenNun said. “It’s my best at Brandeis sofar, and I wish it would have takenme farther, but I think sixth is goodtoo.”

Prior to the meet, Sax said in aninterview that she knew exactly whatshe needed to do going into the NCAAChampionships. “I’m not rankedvery high up so I’m going to have toimprove,” she said.

Sax came into her first trip to theNCAA Championships seeded 14thout of 14 jumpers, but she quicklyrose up the rankings, rising all theway to 10th place with a leap of 11.46meters. Sax ended just shy of achance at the championship, howev-er, finishing .06 meters and one placeaway from qualifying for the finals.

“I feel really good about how I per-formed,” Sax said. “The competition

was tough, to get so close was a bit ofa disappointment, but I’m reallyhappy with how I did.”

The NCAA Championships alsocapped Ben Nun’s indoor trackcareer, which included three all-America honors, three UAA champi-onships in the triple jump and sec-ond- and third- place finishes at theNCAA Championships in her firsttwo seasons.

When asked about her proudestmoment during her career, Ben Nunsaid she would remember the ReggiePoyau Memorial Invitational thisseason, her first home meet since herknee injury. “[It was great] being ableto come back after so many peopletold me that I wouldn’t be able to, andI had so many doubts about beingable to compete again.”

Ben Nun won the triple jump at theBowdoin Invitational, Reggie PoyauMemorial, the Tufts Invitational andthe UAA Championships.

“She meant a lot [to the program]she has good form, good technique,and she’s a good person,” coach MarkReytblat said.

Sax has improved throughout theseason, building on a 10.72-meterjump in the triple jump at the HuskyInvitational Dec. 6.

“I’ve been doing a lot more techni-cal training and a lot more sprintingworkouts instead of working out,”Sax said. “I think I’m a lot strongerthis year because I’ve been sprintingmore.”

Sax also credited Ben Nun forbeing a helpful teammate.

“She pushes me, and is also verysupportive,” Sax said. “It’s great hav-ing her there because she knows howI feel and knows what to say.”

Reytblat said was happy with Saxand Ben Nun.

“Only the top 14 triple jumpers inthe country made it, and I’m proudthat [Sax and Ben Nun] were in it.”

Ben Nun earns All-America honors at NCAA Championships■ Anat Ben Nun ’09 and AliSax ’09 competed at theNCAA Championships in thetriple jump last weekend,where Ben Nun was namedan All-American.

INDOOR TRACK

By SEAN PETTERSONJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Looking atthe loyalfans ofwomen’sbasketball

LOOKING ON: Mary Bassett, left, watches her granddaughter, Jessica Chapin ’10, right, during the Judges’ Sweet 16 game against Muhlenberg College last Friday.DAVID SHEPPARD-BRICK/the Justice

By MIKE PRADAJUSTICE EDITOR

A family affairA family affair

Lauren Rashford ’10 began the yearas the starting point guard for thewomen’s basketball team but tore herACL during a Feb. 3 practice andmissed the team’s final 11 games.Before her injury, Rashford averaged8.1 points per game, 4.2 rebounds pergame and 2.6 assists per game. Despiteher absence, the Judges finished withtheir strongest season ever, advancingall the way to the Sectional Finals.Brandeis went 7-4 without Rashford inthe lineup and finished the season 20-8overall. JustSports spoke withRashford after the Judges’ 68-54 loss toAmherst College last Saturday abouther injury and the team’s play in herabsence.

JustSports: Generally, what did youthink of the team’s run to the Round of8 in the NCAA Tournament?

Lauren Rashford: The loss [toAmherst] was bittersweet, but I’m so

proud of these girls. We had a hell of arun; we really did. We have nothing tobe ashamed of, going to the Elite 8. Wejust made Brandeis history.

JS: How is your knee doing rightnow?

LR: It’s feeling good. I have surgeryplanned for [next] Friday. My plan is tobe back by next season. Oct. 15 is whatI am shooting for, so I’m looking for-ward to that. I’m really looking for-ward to getting back on the court. It’sgoing to be a long [rehabilitation]process and it’s going to be hard work,but I know I’m going to do anything toget back on the court.

JS: How do you think the team hasbeen able to make it so far without youon the court?

LR: [Jessica Chapin ’10] has reallystepped up, and the whole team hasreally stepped up. [Chapin] has beenthe only true point guard on the floor,and she really hasn’t backed down.She’s made the most of her opportuni-ty. She’s just a really great player. Shereally picked up that role and put it onherself and just done a great job.

JS: How do you think the team wasable to deal with having only one pri-mary ball handler with you injured?

LR: I just think we executed our

offense really well. It is really nice thatwe’ve had two or three other guys real-ly step it up. We really moved the ballaround and started to push the ball upthe floor with the pass, and we werejust able to really execute our offense.

JS: What do you think about the jobMorgan Kendrew ’12 did stepping intoyour starting spot?

LR: As a freshman, she just didincredibly well. Obviously, for fresh-men, it’s a learning year, but she’s def-initely been playing really greatrecently. She’s learned a lot and she’sreally grown as a player. She’s reallystepped up.

JS: How do you think minutes aregoing to be distributed next year withyou, Chapin, Kendrew, Kelly Ethier ’12and Diana Cincotta ’11 all returning tothe team?

LR: I think it’s all going to depend onthe flow of the game. Different gamesare going to have different situations,but I think all of us are capable of play-ing a lot. It’s definitely a good thingthat Kendrew and Ethier have beenable to get experience playing a lot thisyear, and that’s definitely going to helpus out next season.

—Mike Prada

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close as 34-28 with 15 minutes left inthe game but could not get any clos-er. Amherst scored the next sevenpoints to take a 13-point lead andnever let the Judges cut the deficit tosingle digits the rest of the game.

“We definitely tried to get the ballinside early, ... and I thought earlyon in the game we definitely didthat,” Amherst coach G.P.Gromacki told reporters. “But weknew they were going to be sendingmore post players, and we still wentat them, and it opened up our out-side game a little bit.”

The Judges struggled againstAmherst’s defense, which came intothe game allowing 48.4 points pergame, second best in Division III.Brandeis came into the game aver-aging 5.8 three-pointers per game,but the Lord Jeffs allowed theJudges to hit just one three-pointerlast Saturday.

Amherst rookie point guardShannon Finucane led all scorerswith 22 points and confounded theJudges defense with her quickness.Coach Carol Simon said the Judges’initial plan was to make her shootoutside jump shots instead of gettinginto the paint, but the strategy didnot work as expected.

“I’ll take the blame on [our defen-sive game plan],” Simon toldreporters after the game. “Honestly,I think it didn’t make us as aggres-sive as we needed to be defensively.”

The Judges were paced by theirtwo senior starters. Orlando had ateam-high 14 points, while Dadaoshad her second career double-doublewith 13 points and 11 rebounds.

Coming into the tournament,Brandeis had the second strongestschedule in the nation whileAmherst’s schedule was No. 49 inthe same category.

“I thought our schedule was pret-ty tough,” Gromacki told reporters.“It’s hard to compare scheduleswhen you are looking at otherteams, and I think the thing to look

at is how well a team’s playing atthat time, and right now we’re play-ing as good as anyone in the countryI feel.”

Prior to last Saturday’s loss, theJudges defeated No. 18 MuhlenbergCollege last Friday night to advanceto the Sectional Finals for the firsttime in school history. Brandeis fellbehind 10-9 early in the first halfbefore going on a 20-0 run to take a29-10 lead with just under eight min-utes left in the half. The Mules wenton an 8-0 run to get within 36-24 athalftime and got within seven pointswith 5:42 left but could not get anycloser.

All five Judges’ starters scored indouble figures against Muhlenberg,led by 17 from Chapin. MeanwhileBrandeis’ defense held Mules’ rookieAlexandra Chili, who came in aver-aging 3.2 three-pointers per game, tojust 2-7 from that range.

“We hurried a few shots thatsometimes you make and sometimesyou don’t, and we just fell in a hole,”Muhlenberg head coach Ron Rohnsaid.

“You had to stay on her, there wasno dig off on Chili; she’s just toogood,” Simon told reporters.

Brandeis will lose two of itsstarters and one of its key benchplayers next year with the gradua-tions of Dadaos, Orlando and for-ward Amanda Wells ’09. Orlandoand Dadaos were second and thirdon the team in scoring, averaging 10and seven points per game respec-tively, while Wells was fourth on theteam with 100 rebounds.

The Judges backcourt will be well-stocked next season, led by Chapin,their leading scorer this season.Starting guard Diana Cincotta ’11,and rookie guards Morgan Kendrew’12 and Kelly Ethier ’12, who each gotsignificant playing time in theNCAA Tournament will also return,while point guard Lauren Rashford’10, who missed the last 11 games ofthe season after tearing her ACL inpractice Feb. 3, should also return.

The softball team seemed to be off toa strong start in its final game of theUniversity Athletic AssociationChampionships. Shortstop BrittanyGrimm ’12 executed a successful sui-cide bunt off University of Rochesterpitcher Beth Ameno in the top of thefirst inning, scoring second basemanMelisa Cagar ’11. However, the Judgesfaltered in the bottom of the first bygiving up three runs and never recov-ered, eventually losing 17-2.

The Judges competed in eight gamesat the UAA Championships inAltamonte Springs, Fla. from March 10to March 14 and finished 3-5 on theweek and drops to 3-7 overall.

“[Losing to Rochester] was disap-pointing because we had just beaten[Rochester] 3-2 earlier in the week, andwe proved that we can play with them.Because we had beaten them once, wemay have come into today’s gamethinking we could do it again withoutgiving it much second thought think-

ing that we still have to play hard,”Cagar said. “The pitcher we facedtoday pitched in a game earlier in themorning. We assumed that she wouldbe tired, but we didn’t take advantageof that and couldn’t string hits togeth-er.”

The Judges’ only other run was anunearned run scored by catcher ErinRoss ’10 in the fourth inning. Rossscored on an error by Rochester juniorcatcher Juliana Nicholson. Still,Brandeis could not recover from theYellow Jackets’ hot start.

“Once [Rochester] pushed threeruns across the board in the firstinning, it deflated us. The intensitywas a little low, and Rochester just ranaway with it,” Cagar said.

Pitcher Emily Vaillette ’10 allowedfive runs in one-plus innings afterallowing three runs in the first and twoin the second before she was pulled forrelief pitcher Caroline Miller ’12.

“Vaillette also had a gutsy perform-ance. She was hit under the ribs with aline drive in the [WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis] game the daybefore, but she still competed hardagainst Rochester [last Saturday],”Cagar said.

The Judges were able to competeagainst the top teams in the nation,with a 3-2 win against No. 16 Rochesterearlier in the week and 3-2 and 6-2

defeats to No. 6 Emory University,both losses occurring in the finalinnings of each game.

“We stayed right with Emory andRochester for the majority of thegames, but we can’t continue to be afive-inning team,” captain and out-fielder Chelsea Korp ’10 said.

Some of the players said the Judgeswere at a disadvantage because teamssuch as Emory had already competedin 16 games in Florida before Brandeishad arrived to Altamonte Springs.

“[We] did very well consideringsome of the teams had already playedover a dozen games before wearrived,” third baseman DanielleLavallee ’11 said, “We did well for theamount of time we spent on the field,but we know we can improve on ourperformances this week.”

The week of the UAAChampionships has historically beenthe toughest part of the Judges’ sched-ule, as the UAA remains one of thestrongest leagues in Division III.However, this season the Judges willface opponents such as No. 27Wellesley College and No. 26 RhodeIsland College when they return toNew England.

Brandeis next plays a doubleheaderat Wellesley College tomorrow at 3p.m.

■ The softball team went 3-5 at the University AthleticAssociation Championshipslast week in Florida.

By ANDREW NGJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

SOFTBALL

JUST WATCHING: Guard Lauren Rashford ’10, sits injured on the bench with coach Carol Simon, left, in the first round March 7.DAVID SHEPPARD-BRICK/the Justice

SIDELINED STARTER

■ Injured point guard LaurenRashford ’10 watched thewomen’s basketball teammake history with a trip tothe Sectional Finals.

Team loses final two contests

WBBALL: Judges fall inSectional Finals 68-54CONTINUED FROM 16

STOPPED SHORT: Forward Lauren Orlando’s ’09 shot is contested last Saturday.DAVID SHEPPARD-BRICK/the Justice

Rashford talks NCAA run

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Just 19 days after a road trip toOrlando, Fla. that saw the men’s andwomen’s tennis teams go a combined 7-3, the competition back in theNortheast did not prove to be as sunny.

The two squads combined for a 1-4record last weekend at MiddleburyCollege. The men’s team lost 6-3 toConnecticut College last Sunday andfell to No. 4 Middlebury 9-0 andUniversity Athletic Association rivalNew York University 6-3 last Saturday,while the women defeated NYU 7-2 butlost to No. 13 Middlebury 9-0 lastSaturday.

The men’s team is now 5-5 this sea-son, while the women’s squad is 7-3.

In its match against ConnecticutCollege, the men’s team won three ofthe six singles matches. StevenNieman ’11 was able to knock off sen-ior David Kellogg in No. 1 singles 7-5, 7-6 (4), Simon Miller ’11 defeated rookieJeffrey Weisberger 6-3, 6-2 at No. 3 sin-gles, and Seth Rogers ’10 beat rookieColin Tasi 6-2, 6-0 at No. 4 singles. Butthe Judges dropped all three doublesmatches, putting them in a 3-0 holefrom which they could not recover. Itwas the third consecutive match inwhich the Judges lost all three gamesin doubles, as they also were swept indoubles by Middlebury and NYU.

“We’re not playing big in doubles.That’s the bottom line,” coach BenLamanna said. He added: “In the nine-point system, if you don’t win a dou-bles match … it’s a real, real long waysto go to get back, and we’re not quitedominant enough in singles that wecan go out there and win five out of sixsingles matches to clinch a match.”

Against the Camels, Miller and ScottSchulman ’09 paired at No. 1 doublesand fell in a close decision to Kelloggand sophomore Trevor Prophet, 8-6.

Neiman and Mayur Kasetty ’11 teamedat No. 2 doubles, while Rogers and JoshBookman ’12 were at No. 3 doubles,both of which lost their matches by ascore of 8-3.

“It’s always hard coming off threetough losses, but we can’t dwell onthose,” Nieman said. “We have to learnfrom our mistakes, which is we need tocome out to a better start. The greatthing about this game is that there aremany more matches to come.”

The women’s team was able toknock off NYU 7-2 last Saturday, led bywins from their No. 1 and No. 3 doublesteams. Rachel Rosman ’11 andMackenzie Gallegos ’11 defeated fresh-man Elizabeth Stachtiavis and seniorcaptain Stephanie Tu 8-3, while cap-tain Gabrielle Helfgott ’09 and NinaLevine ’12 defeated sophomore SarahJoo and senior Jennifer Gottleib 8-4.

Gallegos had switched with Helfgottas Rosman’s partner for the match, butLamanna said Gallegos would contin-ue to play No. 1 doubles “for the fore-seeable future.”

The Judges won five of their six sin-gles matches, as No. 1 Rosman (6-1, 6-2),No. 2 Helfgott (3-6, 6-1, (10-3), No. 4Gallegos (6-1, 6-1), No. 5 EmilyWeisberger ’10 (6-2, 6-1), and No.6Levine (8-3) all emerged victorious intheir matches. Levine played only onesuperset because the team match hadalready been decided.

“We’re a good singles team,”Lamanna said. “It really all depends onour doubles and how confident weare.”

In the 9-0 loss to Middlebury, No. 4Gallegos and No. 5 Weisberger werethe only two Brandeis players to taketheir singles matches into a third set.Gallegos and Weisberger both lost thefirst set 6-0, and both rebounded to winthe second set 7-5, but Gallegosdropped the third set tiebreak 11-9, andWeisberger fell in hers, 10-5, falling tosenior Elizabeth Stone and rookieAlyssa Puccinelli, respectively

The men’s team will next competethis Saturday at home againstLamanna’s alma mater Bates Collegeat 10 a.m. The women’s team will alsotake on Bates at home at 4 p.m.

Once again escaping Waltham forthe sunny fields of the south afterearlier playing in a series of gamesin Peoria, Ariz., the baseball teamhoped to defend the UniversityAthletic Association co-Championship title they won lastyear in the annual UAA BaseballChampionship. But with two lossesin the final weekend of the tourna-ment after splitting their first fourgames, the Judges went from con-tenders for the title to dead last inthe span of 24 hours.

Brandeis lost to the University ofRochester and Emory University inits two games last Saturday aftersplitting games with WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, beatingCase Western Reserve University inwalk-off fashion and losing toRochester earlier in the week. TheJudges finished the tournament at2-4 and fell to 4-7 overall.

“We had high expectations goinginto the week,” captain and out-fielder Mike Alfego ’09 said. “Weobviously wanted to defend the title,but it’s a very strong league-aleague of parity-and anybody canbeat anybody else in the league onany given day. So now we've got tocome back and work harder, so wecan move forward.”

Last Saturday's game againstRochester was essentially a champi-onship game for both teams asRochester needed the tiebreakerover Brandeis and the Judges need-ing two wins on the day to get ashare of the UAA title.

The Judges sent captain JamesCollins '09 to the mound to face aYellow Jacket offense that has a

team batting average of .347. Collinslasted five innings and left the gamewith the Judges only trailing 5-3.Brandeis came to within 6-5 and cuta 9-7 Rochester lead to 9-8 in theninth inning but would not comeany closer.

“Throughout the game, we basi-cally spotted them four runs onmental mistakes that hurt us bad. Ifwe cut out on those mistakes thenit's a very different game,” assistantcoach Brian Lambert ’97 said. “Butwe fought back and finished thegame with two men on base and aline drive that their first basemanmade a great play on.

Tony Deshler ’11 led the Judgesby going 3-for-5 with 3 RBIs and tworuns scored. Catcher Zach Wooley’11 finished the day 2-for-5 with twoRBIs, including an eighth-inninghome run, the first of his career.High school teammates infielderNick Gallagher ’09 and Alfego com-bined to go 5-for-8 on the day.

“It was a really tough loss, a back--and-forth game,” Gallagher said.“It seemed like we'd come back andscore three runs, they'd score four,we'd score one, they’d score one andso on. ... We just couldn't close thatgap.”

Lambert said he appreciated theJudges' effort.

“[Last Saturday's game] showsthat we have some fight, which is agood sign,” he said. “We just need toget that consistent effort and focusto play well when the game's on theline in the fourth inning, not justthe ninth.”

With their UAA title hopesdashed, the Judges were never inthe game against Emory later in theday. Emory jumped on Brandeisimmediately, batting around itsorder in the first inning to get out toa 9-0 lead that eventually turnedinto a 12-0 shutout that ended afterseven innings because of the lop-sided score. Pitcher Pat Nicholson'11, pitching on three days’ rest aftera complete game 3-1 victory over

WashU March 10 in which he took ano-hitter into the seventh inning,started for Brandeis against Emoryand gave up eight earned runs, last-ing just a third of an inning. DavidPackard ’09, John Clark ’09 and left-hander Jonah Mandell ’09 followedNicholson and all saw their earned-run averages rise, giving up fourmore runs over the next 3 2/3innings as Emory extended the leadto 12-0.

“It ended pretty bad, and ofcourse it's disappointing. We wentinto a big day with a chance to winthe whole thing and ended up in lastplace.” captain Mike Alfego ’09 said.

Lambert said he was also disap-pointed with the way the teamclosed out its annual trip to Florida.

The Judges went 2-2 earlier in theweek, with the most dramatic gameoccurring against Case WesternThursday. The Spartans took a 4-1lead before Brandeis respondedwith three runs in the bottom of thesixth inning to tie the score at 4-4heading into the ninth inning.

The Spartans broke the tie in thetop of the ninth inning, taking a 5-4lead, and were just one out awayfrom the victory. But Case Westernrookie pitcher Sam Alexanderwalked Sean O'Hare ’12, loading thebases for Deshler. Deshler eventual-ly singled, sending home two run-ners to give the Judges the walk-offwin.

“It was a big game, and it washuge to get those runners on base.With two outs, I was just thinkingabout trying to get a pitch to hit andget it through the infield,” Deshlersaid.

Lambert said the team is still try-ing to find a lineup that will workmoving forward.

“We’ve still got more to see, butwe just want to find the nine guyswho are going to work hard andplay hard all of the time,” he said.

The Judges will next play tomor-row at Bridgewater StateUniversity at 3 p.m.

TENNIS BASEBALL

Teams fall to top squads■ The baseball team went2-4 at the UniversityAthletic AssociationChampionships last week.

■ The women’s tennis teamwas 1-1 at MiddleburyCollege last weekend whilethe men’s team went 0-3.

By ELI HARRINGTONJUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

By ADAM ROSENJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Judges fail to repeat at UAAs

TAMPA, Fla.—Mississippi State University showed allthose bubble teams from the Southeastern Conferencehow to get into the NCAA Tournament.

Phil Turner scored seven of his 12 points in the final 1minute, 35 seconds last Sunday, and the Bulldogsknocked off Tennessee 64-61 to win the SEC tournamentchampionship and the league’s automatic NCAA berth.

Turner, who had 10 rebounds, hit a big three-pointer toput Mississippi State (23-12) in front for good, then madetwo free throws with 8 seconds left to help the Bulldogshold off the Volunteers (21-12) in a wild finish.

Cameron Tatum’s long three-pointer bounced off therim and Mississippi State’s Barry Stewart rebounded astime ran out on Tennessee’s hopes of winning the tour-nament for the first time in 30 years.

Wayne Chism led the Volunteers with 15 points, but hemissed seven of nine three-point attempts a day aftergoing 4-of-6 to key a victory over Auburn in the semifi-nals. J.P. Prince had 14 points, and leading scorer TylerSmith had 12 on 2-of-14 shooting.

The victory was the sixth straight for MississippiState, which entered the tournament needing a strongrun to improve its chances of making the NCAA field.The Bulldogs’ first SEC title since 2002 ensures theleague three spots, with Tennessee and regular-seasonchampion LSU considered locks.

Mississippi State’s run was reminiscent of theUniversity of Georgia’s stunning march through the SECtournament last year. Georgia won four games in threedays to earn an improbable NCAA berth after finishinglast in the regular-season conference standings.

Stewart and Ravern Johnson both scored 11 points forMississippi State, which also got 10 points, sevenrebounds and six blocks from tournament MVP JarvisVarnado. The Bulldogs held Tennessee to 29 percentshooting and forced two of the Volunteers’ 14 turnoverswith the game on the line.

Mississippi State accepted the championship trophy,landed Varnado and Stewart on the all-tournament teamand cut down the nets in the half-empty St. Pete TimesForum, which drew a crowd of just 10,093 for the final.

Overall, the tournament drew 132,181 for six sessionsover four days—the lowest attendance for the league’sshowcase event since 1991, when it was played inNashville, Tenn., and without perennial SEC power-house University of Kentucky, which was on probation.

For Tennessee, it was more postseason disappoint-ment under coach Bruce Pearl, who had hoped winningthe crown would improve his team’s seeding in theNCAA Tournament. The Vols hadn’t been in the SECfinal since 1991 and hadn’t won it all since 1979.

The Bulldogs will play the University of Washingtonin Portland, Ore. in the first round of the NCAATournament Thursday at 9 p.m.

Tennessee will play Oklahoma State University Fridayat 12:25 p.m. in Dayton, Ohio.

VESTAL, N.Y.—Senior forward Reggie Fuller had 19points and 10 rebounds, D.J. Rivera added 16 points, andBinghamton beat defending America East champion theUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County 61-51 onSaturday for the conference title and the school’s firstNCAA Tournament berth.

It was the 11th straight win for the top-seeded Bearcats(23-8) and their first America East title since moving toDivision I in 2001.

UMBC (15-17), the sixth seed and the last team to beatBinghamton, made its first NCAA Tournament appear-ance a year ago but saw its chances of a second vanishwhen the Retrievers failed to score in the game’s final 4minutes, 49 seconds.

Rich Flemming led UMBC with 14 points and 11rebounds, conference scoring champion Darryl Proctorhad 12 points and 11 rebounds, and freshman ChaunceyGilliam had 10 points.

The raucous green-and-white-clad, standing-room-onlyhome crowd of 5,342, the largest in the history of theschool’s Events Center, celebrated the first title of anykind in the program’s 63-year history, storming the courtat the final buzzer amid a sea of green confetti.

Binghamton shadowed UMBC guard Jay Greene witha taller player at every turn, and the strategy worked.Greene was just 3-for-10—1-for-6 from beyond thearc—and finished with seven points, four assists and fiveturnovers in playing every minute.

Binghamton took control by scoring 12 straight pointsspanning the halftime break, and then held on at the endwhen the Bearcats had difficulty finding openings in theUMBC defense. Emanuel Mayben’s layup that gaveBinghamton a 56-47 lead with 7:32 left was the last basketof the game for the Bearcats.

UMBC had plenty of chances to challenge after movingwithin 57-51 but they all failed. In the final four minutes,Greene missed a 3, Proctor was called for a charge as hemade a layup, then missed another drive to the basketand a pair of free throws.

In the final frantic minute, Flemming missed a followand a three-pointer, and Gilliam missed a three-pointerand a layup.

The Bearcats led for most of the first half and threat-ened to break open the game early as Fuller went 7-for-7from the field for 14 points. After Flemming’s jumperfrom left wing pulled UMBC within 17-15 at 11:14,Binghamton went on a 12-4 run to gain a 29-19 lead.

Then, just like that, the Bearcats went scoreless formore than four minutes, missing five straight shots, andthe Retrievers rallied, moving within 29-27 on Proctor’slayup with 1:41 left.

Binghamton halted the slide and scored seven straightpoints to close the half, the final basket a long three fromthe top of the key by Mayben with 3.8 seconds left. It washis only basket of the period.

The Bearcats will play Duke University as a No. 15seed in the NCAA Tournament this Thursday at 9:40 p.m.in Greensboro, N.C.

Duke is the Atlantic Coast Confernce champion.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

UPCOMING GAME OF THE WEEK

straight seasons that a Brandeisbasketball team was knocked outof the NCAA Tournament in theSectional Finals by Amherst

College. The men’s team lost last season65-55 while the women’s team lost thisseason 68-54 last Saturday.

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Baseball vs. Rochester Institute of TechnologyThe Judges play RIT at home in a double header starting Saturday at noon.

The baseball team will play its homeopener against the Rochester Institute ofTechnology in a doubleheader startingSaturday at noon.

The Judges are 4-7 this season afteropening the season with a new springtraining trip in Peoria, Ariz. and theUniversity Athletic AssociationChampionships in Sanford, Fla.

Brandeis won two of its first threeUAA games with a 3-1 win overWashington University in St. Louis anda 6-5 victory over Case Western Reserve

University. However the Judgesdropped their final three UAA gamesagainst WashU and the University ofRochester by close margins of 8-6 and 9-8, respectively, but were handled byEmory University 12-0 last Saturday.

RIT is 2-6 this season and has allowedover 20 runs in a game twice this season.The first time was against WartburgCollege (Iowa) losing 25-5, and the sec-ond time was in its most recent gameagainst St. Cloud State University(Minn.), a 22-4 defeat.

FINAL TEAM LEADERSWBball (points per game) WBball (rebounds per game)

Player PPGJessica Chapin 14.1Lauren Orlando 10.0Lauren Rashford 8.1Cassidy Dadaos 7.0Diana Cincotta 6.9

Guard Jessica Chapin ’10 led theJudges with an average of 6.7rebounds per game.

Guard Jessica Chapin ’10 led theteam with an average of 14.1 pointsper game.

RBIs for catcher Erin Ross ’10 inthe first eight games for the soft-ball team. The team is 3-5 afterthe annual University Athletic

Association Championships in Floridalast week.

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graduating seniors on thewomen’s basketball team: guardLauren Goyette and forwardsCassidy Dadaos, Lauren Orlandoand Amanda Wells. The Judges

advanced to the National SectionalFinals for the first time in school histo-ry this year after making the NCAATournament four consecutive seasons.

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Player RPGJessica Chapin 6.7Cassidy Dadaos 5.5Lauren Orlando 4.7Lauren Rashford 4.2Amanda Wells 3.6

Last season, second baseman MelisaCagar ’11 led the softball team with 10stolen bases in 47 games played. Just lastweek, after eight games this seasonagainst University Athletic Associationcompetition in Florida, she has alreadycompiled six steals on only six attempts.

“I feel that I am more confident thisyear and have realized that I need to uti-lize my base running skills better,” Cagarwrote in an e-mail to the Justice. “When Iam on base I always try to put pressure onthe defense.”

Cagar wrote that she takes into accountthe “strength of the catcher’s arm [and]the tracking of the ball when it is releasedfrom the pitcher’s hand” among other fac-tors when she is deciding whether toattempt to steal a base.

Of her six steals, arguably the most sig-nificant one came in the fifth inning of lastThursday’s game against the Universityof Rochester. With the Judges trailing 2-1,rookie right fielder Samantha Gajewski’12 was on first base and Cagar was on sec-ond with rookie designated hitterMarianne Specker ’12 up at bat.

Cagar wrote that head coach JessicaJohnson instructed Specker to bat right-handed, even though she typically batsleft-handed, in order to obstruct theRochester catcher’s throwing path tothird base. As a result, Gajewski andCagar pulled off a double-steal.

Gajewski and Cagar came around toscore later in the inning with Cagar scor-

ing the tying run as the Judges earned a 3-2 comeback victory.

Batting first in the lineup, Cagar leadsthe team with 10 hits, seven runs scored, a.400 batting average and a .483 on-base per-centage. She also added one home run andtwo runs batted in.

“I feel that my offense improved as theweek progressed,” Cagar wrote. “Gettingoff on a fast start will help me push for-ward and use that as a baseline [for] myrole on the team.”

—Jeffrey Pickette

players for the women’s basket-ball team who scored in doublefigures in the Judges’ 82-70 Sweet16 win over Muhlenberg College

to advance to the Sectional Finals forthe first time in school history.

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AMHERST, Mass.—As the clockdropped closer to zero in the women’sbasketball team’s Round of Eight loss,many of the Judges players were seenwith tears in their eyes at the prospectof their season’s end. But half an hourlater, the satisfaction of the squad’shistoric season had returned, for theplayers were all mingling with familymembers and smiling as they tooktheir team photo.

The No. 25 Judges lost to No. 11Amherst College 68-54 last Saturday inthe Round of Eight at Amherst a dayafter defeating No. 18 MuhlenbergCollege 82-70 in the Sweet 16, butdespite the loss, the team advancedfurther in the NCAA Tournamentthan it ever had in school history andreached the 20-win plateau for the fifthtime in six seasons.

“I think we brought the program toa whole different level, and we’re trulyan NCAA program now,” forwardLauren Orlando ’09 told reporters afterthe loss. “We’ve proven that everyonein the community that we can go outand play.”

The Lord Jeffs will face Brandeis’University Athletic Association rival,Washington University in St. Louis, inthe Final Four in Holland, Mich. TheBears upset top-ranked IllinoisWesleyan University 58-53.

Amherst got out to a quick 3-2 leadon Saturday and never trailed afterthat, going up 31-22 at the break.Forward Cassidy Dadaos ’09 kept theteam close in her final collegiate gamewith 11 points and nine rebounds inthe first half. Meanwhile, guard

Jessica Chapin ’10, the Judges’ leadingscorer this season with a 14.1 point-per-game average, was held to onepoint in the first half and ultimately

hit just two of her 13 field goalattempts.

“They put great pressure on me theentire game,” Chapin told reporters.

“And that’s tough. You can run me offof so many screens or I can try and cre-ate shots but [Saturday] the shot was-n’t falling, and they were putting great

pressure on me so you got to give themsome credit.”

In the second half the Judges got as

Squad’s historic run ends at Amherst

END OF THE RUN: Guard Diana Cincotta ’10, left, and forward Lauren Orlando ’09, right, sit sadly on the bench as time expired on the Judges’ season last Saturday night. DAVID SHEPPARD-BRICK/the Justice

INSIDE DRIVE: Cassidy Dadaos ’09 tries to shoot in the paint last Saturday.DAVID SHEPPARD-BRICK/the Justice

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AMHERST, Mass.—Captain CassidyDadaos ’09 was still leading thewomen’s basketball team, even afterthe Judges’ 68-54 loss to AmherstCollege in the Sectional Finals of theDivision III NCAA Tournament lastSaturday. Her career was now over,but even so, Dadaos was the first play-er to leave the court and enter theJudges’ locker room, with all of herteammates following behind.

Dadaos, who said she was playingeach NCAA Tournament game withthe hopes of prolonging her basket-ball career, played some of her bestgames in her four years at Brandeisduring this year’s tournament run. Inthe loss to Amherst, she finished thegame with 13 points as well as acareer-high 11 rebounds, her secondcareer double-double.

Despite averaging no more thanseven points per game in any seasonof her four-year career, Dadaos wasgiven the ball on most of the team’spossessions as if she were the Judges’primary scorer inside. In last Friday’s82-70 victory over MuhlenbergCollege in the Sweet 16, Dadaos tied acareer-high in points with 14 to goalong with a team-high sevenrebounds.

Though Dadaos was able put up

some of her best numbers in the twobiggest games of her career, she saidshe has always taken pride in doingthe intangibles to help her team win.

“I’m not a big scorer, I’ve neverbeen a big scorer,” she said afterFriday’s win. “But I want to be able todo the smaller things and the defen-sive stops and the rebounding andknow the plays and be vocal on thecourt.”

Dadaos, who also served as a teamcaptain during her junior year, hasearned the respect and praise of team-mates and coaches. Amber Strodthoff’11, a forward whom the Judges willlean on heavily next year withDadaos graduating, said that Dadaoshas been a huge aide in her transitionto college basketball and has helpedher mature as a player.

“Those are big shoes to fill, let mejust start off by saying that,” she saidafter the team’s loss to Amherst. “Thethings she does for all of us on and offthe court are just incredible. … Inpractice, she plays me hard witheverything she’s got, and she’s con-stantly in my ear telling me what I didgreat, what I did bad, and just tryingto get the best player out of me. Off thecourt, she’s just someone you canalways go and talk to with anything;she’ll do anything for you. Her heartand soul was this team and all of the

girls on it.”Head coach Carol Simon praised

Dadaos’ ability to keep her compo-sure and encourage teammates evenwhen the team was struggling.

“She was really the stabilizing fac-tor for the team,” Simon said. “Eitherway, if things were bad, she’s alwaysthe one that rallies up the team andjust kind of calms us down and waslike ‘OK, let’s take a deep breath, let’sdo what we do, and let’s get it done.’”

Dadaos often answers questionsabout her achievements by speakingabout the team’s accomplishments.That occurred again after theAmherst loss last Saturday, when shewas asked about her legacy atBrandeis. She spoke about the waythis year’s team raised the bar for allfuture squads, adding that shebelieves the team “set the standard interms of being good all-around peopleand good all-around role models.”

Dadaos is not the only senior, asforwards Lauren Orlando and AmandaWells and guard Lauren Goyette willalso graduate, but while the Judgeswill miss each player’s on-court con-tributions, Simon praised Dadaos’character and effect on the program.

“She’s left her mark,” Simon said.“As a coach, I mean, that’s why wecoach. Kids like [Dadaos are] why youcoach.”

■ The women’s basketballteam was eliminated fromthe NCAA Tournament in theSectional Finals by hostschool Amherst College 68-54 last Saturday.

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What’s happening in Arts on and off campus

‘Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, anExile’s Journey’ The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute atBrandeis University will welcome authorJoyce Zonana to campus to discuss her latestwork, Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina,an Exile’s Journey. Zonana’s memoirrecounts the struggles of an Egyptian-JewishAmerican as she forges an identity thatbridges a number of apparent dividesbetween Muslim and Jewish, gay andstraight, Eastern and Western, urban andsuburban, dutiful daughter and independentwoman. A panel discussion will follow withBoston writers Tehila Lieberman and SusanFreireich to discuss the process of writingabout the self and about the world through agendered lens. Prof. Melanie Braverman(ENG) will moderate. Refreshments will beprovided, and books will be available forpurchase. Admission is free, but RSVP isrequired. For more information or to RSVP,e-mail hbi@brandeis.edu or call (781)736-2064. Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in theEpstein Lecture Hall.

‘Prospect I: Post-Baccalaureate Exhibition’opening reception “Experience the imaginations and tech-niques of the post-baccalaureate studioartists with an exceptional group show fea-turing original work in painting, sculpture,drawing and printmaking.” (www.bran-deis.edu/arts/calendar.html ) Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in theEpstein Lecture Hall.

SunDeis Student Film ScreeningsThe SunDeis Film Festival will screen workssubmitted by student filmmakers. This eventis one of many composing the festival, anannual event held to acknowledge the cre-ativity of college students who specialize inthe film medium and to bring awareness tomovie-making resources available on and offcampus. Other SunDeis happenings willinclude a question-and-answer session withproducer David Pritchard, a 48-Hour Filmcontest, a film careers workshop and a RedCarpet Awards Ceremony for SunDeis par-ticipants.)Wednesday and Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.and Saturday from noon to 2:30 p.m. in theShapiro Campus Center Atrium.

‘Beyond Hatred’ “Beyond Hatred, a documentary about amurder victim’s family struggling to heal, isan example of a film whose style doesn’tmerely suit its story but amplifies its mean-ings. The film recounts the death of FrançoisChenu, a gay man in his 20s who was killedin Rheims, France by skinheads who werehoping to attack an Arab but settled for anavailable target. When Mr. Chenu defiantlydeclared his sexual orientation, the skin-heads beat him unconscious, assumed hewas dead, then dumped him in a river wherehe drowned. Beyond Hatred follows Mr.Chenu’s parents, siblings and lawyers asthey seek justice through the courts, try tounderstand his killers and carry on with life.The filmmaker, Olivier Meyrou, works inthe style of direct cinema, a school of nonfic-tion filmmaking perfected by the likes ofRobert Drew (Primary) and the Mayslesbrothers (Salesman)” (Matt Zoller Seitz, TheNew York Times). This film is part of anongoing showing of award-winning Frenchand Francophone films. Thursday at 7 p.m. in Shiffman 219.

MusicUnitesUS: NettleComprised of an African-American DJ, aScottish cellist and two Moroccan musicians(all of whom met while living as ex-pats inBarcelona), Nettle embodies the far-flungmovement of people, ideas and cultural prac-tices so common in our globalized age. Andduring a special on-campus concert thegroup will perform their unique blend ofNorth African folksong, free improvisationand hip-hop breakbeats, which create a pow-erful sonic space where World Music clichésare abandoned. Advance tickets are $20while those purchased at the door will cost$25. Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. in the SlosbergRecital Hall.

Vocal Student Showcase ConcertStudents of Prof. Pamela Wolfe (MUS), Prof.Pamela Dellal (MUS) and Prof. JasonMcStoots will perform during an event thatis free and open to the public.Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Slosberg Recital Hall.

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■ DJ/rupture 19A founding member of the ensemble Nettle,which begins a residency at Brandeis thisweek, spoke about his group’s global focus.

■ ‘Freakshow’ 19Zach Handler ’09 performed a provocativeselection of monologues by Eric Bogosian forhis senior thesis.

■ David Pritchard 21The Justice spoke to the producer of ‘CaptainAbu Raed,’ which will screen at Brandeis aspart of the upcoming SunDeis festival.

■ Lydian Concert 22The prolific quartet of music professorsplayed a globally conscious selection ofmusic at the Rose Art Museum in the latestinstallment of their monthly concert series.

■ ‘All I Ever Wanted’ 22The latest album by Kelly Clarkson stretchedthe Idol’s vocal talent but wasted her genre-busting potential with typical pop fare.

■ Melting Pot 23The chain’s helpful staff enabled diners toenjoy a confounding but delicious menu.

■ ‘Rivals in Renaissance Venice’ 23Paintings by three Venetian artists werebeautifully brought together in an exhibit atthe Museum of Fine Arts.

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INTERNATIONAL ARRIVAL: The electronic-acoustic group Nettle begins its residency this week witha concert at Slosberg. From left to right: Jen Jones, Abdel Hak, DJ/rupture and Khalid Bennaji.

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WBRS1. Mirah – “Country of the Future”2. Hot Chip – “Hold On”3. Abi Tapia – “The Easy Way”4. Sonic Boom Six – “Northern Skies”5. M. Ward – “Stars of Leo”6. Zion I – “Antenna”7. Lady GaGa – “Poker Face”8. Cursive – “From The Hips”9. Malajube – “333”10. Siren – “Turn Away”

Trio gets readyfor its reunion

On campus music aficionados may already befamiliar with Karen Lowe ’10 and JoshuaChakoff ’10, if not by name then by sound; thetwo musicians, as recipients of the LeonardBernstein Scholarship (a prestigious awardgiven to the school’s best musicians), have beenin the spotlight since 2007 when they first beganperforming at Brandeis with fellow LBS recipi-ent Yoon-Jin Kim ’10. They recently gave e-mailinterviews to the Justice.

JustArts: I’m sure getting the LBS scholarshipcontributed to your choosing Brandeis.However, why did you choose to apply toBrandeis over a music school like Berklee?

Karen Lowe: I knew about Brandeis becausemy dad went here. When I was applying toschools, I knew that Brandeis would be a good fitfor me in terms of location and size but alsobecause it had strong academics outside ofmusic. I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to major inmusic when I got to school, and I wanted to makesure that I was going to a school that had otheroptions. (Usually music schools have weak aca-demics outside of strictly music classes.)

Joshua Chakoff: I actually had ruled outapplying to conservatories a number of yearsbefore the college application process. I wasalways serious about music, attending musiccamps and devoting almost my entire weekendto violin in high school, but never felt that Iwanted to dedicate my life to it. Dual-degree pro-grams, such as the Juilliard-Columbia andRochester-Eastman programs, briefly appealedto me, but I quickly realized that they were fartoo large of commitments, especially since I wasfairly certain that I did not want to become a pro-fessional musician.

JA: How have your various study abroadplans affected your development as a group?

KL: I went abroad last semester to BuenosAires, and so Josh and Yoon-Jin were in thechamber music class. Now that Yoon-Jin isabroad, Josh and I are playing together as a duo,and we are taking the class, too.

JC: While we haven’t been together as a com-plete group since last spring, this time hasallowed all of us to spend some time in the cham-ber music class, co-taught by Judy Eissenbergand Evan Hirsch. Since we had already beencoached by all the Lydian String Quartet mem-bers other than Judy, it has been interesting tobe coached by her, as well as by Evan, who espe-cially helps because he is a pianist and is able tooffer insight to some piano-specific issues thatthe quartet members cannot always commenton. When Karen was abroad in the fall, Yoon-Jinand I even played in separate groups, which wasalmost a shock to the system after exclusivelyplaying with the same group for two years.Regularly playing in front of a class, and observ-ing other groups perform and receive sugges-tions, is also a great experience that we were notable to get our first two years, since the chambermusic component of the LBS program is struc-tured as an independent study. I think that whenwe get back together in the fall, we will be a bet-ter group as a result even though we won’t haveplayed together for over a year.

JA: What’s next for you guys, when Yoon-Jinreturns from abroad? What direction do youthink you’ll take as a group during your senioryear?

KL: I know that we were thinking about play-ing this beautiful Schoenberg, but it’s not reallymeant for piano trio and I don’t think it would beworth learning. Personally, I’d like to play[something] totally different than what we haveplayed before, although the three of us alwaysdisagree on what we want to play.

JC: For each of the successive end-of-semesterconcerts during our first two years, it seemedlike we were steadily growing a regular follow-ing. So I’m really hoping that we can maintainthat momentum into next year! Though wehaven’t discussed our plans as a group thatmuch, I am fairly certain we will continue to pre-pare a full program each semester.

—Andrea Fineman

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■ The Leonard Bernstein Scholarsof 2010 prepare for senior yearafter taking time to study abroad.

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It’s that time of the week again, when we playour favorite game: what sort of trouble is LindsayLohan in this time?

The occasional actress, most recently famous forher constant fights with girlfriend Sam Ronson,made headlines again this week when Hollyscooplearned that there was a warrant out for Lohan’sarrest.

The warrant, stemming back to her 2007 DUI, isdue to failure to meet with her probation officer orfailure to complete a mandatory drug test. A LosAngeles-based attorney told Hollyscoop on Fridaythat if Lohan failed to comply with either of theabove, a judge could issue a warrant for her arrest.The fine for the warrant was set at $50,000.

On Saturday morning, Lohan, apparently thelast to hear the news of her impending arrest, senta statement to Perez Hilton, writing: “This warrantfor my arrest is completely fabricated, and it’s ahorrendous lie. This will make me lose every sin-gle deal that I have right now.” However, despiteLindsay’s protests, TMZ learned that the warrantwas served due to Lindsay’s failure to comply withprobation procedures, which included enrolling inan alcohol education program. However, Lohan’scamp is fighting the charges:

“Since her case was resolved, Ms. Lohan hasbeen in compliance with all the terms and condi-tions of her probation and all orders of the court,”Lindsay’s lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley said in astatement Saturday. “The warrant issued onFriday was, in our view, born out of a misunder-standing which I am confident I can clear up nextweek.”

A hearing on the matter is set for Monday morn-ing in a Beverly Hills courtroom. “The judge appar-ently has indicated that Ms. Lohan should be inattendance,” L.A. DA spokeswoman SandiGibbons said Saturday.

And what was Miss Lohan doing while the

LAPD staked out the house she shares withRonson? According to TMZ, she spent the eveningin a screaming fight with her girlfriend.

“Sam and Lindsay have gotten into a nuclearfight at Sam’s house. The police are at their frontdoor to talk to Lindsay and Sam, but they will notopen the door. The two are definitely still in thehouse,” a source told TMZ on Friday night.

A word to the wise, Lindsay: If you’re already introuble with the po-po, don’t make it worse byadding a “disturbing the peace” offense to their listof charges against you.

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FULLY LOADED: Lohan’s run-in with the law maypose a threat to her career and her relationship.

This semester’s edition of theyearly MusicUnitesUS programbrings something altogether differ-ent than did its predecessors. In pastyears, MusicUnitesUS has featuredclassical Chinese instrumentalists,a classical Indian vocalist and anAfro-Brazilian dance group. Thisyear, the electronic-acoustic projectNettle, which draws from electronicmusic, classical Arabic and NorthAfrican folk traditions, will gracethe stage of the Slosberg Music Cen-ter as well as provide a number ofextra performances throughout theweek. The group’s residency beginsThursday with open classes and con-certs and culminates in the keynoteconcert in the Slosberg Recital HallSaturday night at 8 p.m. Jayce Clay-ton, a.k.a. DJ/rupture, one of thefounding members of Nettle, satdown with the Justice to discuss hismusic and the band’s upcoming per-formance residency.

JustArts: I understand that Prof.Wayne Marshall (MUS) helped puttogether your concert. How did youbecome acquainted with Wayne?

Jace Clayton: I became ac-quainted with Wayne through afriend of mine named Jake Trussle,a.k.a. DJ C, … and the funny thing isthat Wayne and I went to college to-gether, and we both attended Har-vard and overlapped, but I had noidea who he was until many yearslater and that initial 12-inch that myfriend Jake Trussle released by[Wayne] had kind of brought him tomy attention, and some point soonafter we got in touch I realized wehad all these things in common, likeblogging.

JA: How would you describe yourmusic?

JC: We’re a five-piece band, and itbegan as a project with myself andelectronics and violin and banjo,myself working with a guy namedAbdelhak Rahal, and for a while itwas just us. The initial idea wasmixing electronic music with Ara-bic music. … This started probablyin 2002, 2003 and slowly over theyears—I released a Nettle album in2001 that was more of a solo project,called Build A Fort, Set That OnFire and then we got together for aremix I was doing, and then we hit itoff really well so we just kept onworking together, and it’s expanded

now. So we’ve got Abdel primarilyon violin; we’ve got a guy namedKhalid Bennaji on a Moroccan in-strument called a guembri (it’s athree-string bass); we’ve got a guynamed Brett Arnold who plays cello;a percussionist [named] Grey Filas-tine; and myself, and so the sound isquite similar to what it was in thebeginning. So it sounds like thesestrings, cello and violin, but a lot oftimes it’ll be routed through theelectronics, processed by, so I’m in-terested in the boundaries betweenbeat-based music or something elec-tronic and [something] live, moreorganic.

JA: What kind of music will you

be playing at Brandeis—mostly newmusic or music from throughoutyour career?

JC: Each time we bring new mem-bers to the group, each person willcome with some musical back-ground, and it’s constantly evolving,and that’s kind of what makes it in-teresting. And so our concerts arenothing like what they were, say,five years ago. Those days are gone.It’s totally different. It’s fun that wehad that repertoire for a while. It’slike with each new member, thingswill grow and change, so I’m very in-terested in the idea that it’s not afixed thing of any sort.

JA: I want to ask you about the set

format of these MusicUnitesUS con-certs—there’s usually a mid-weekperformance and master class andother appearances, so to speak, be-fore the Saturday night concert.What do you guys expect from thosekind of auxiliary performances?How is that going to work? I’ve beentold that not everyone in your groupspeaks English, and that you have acommon language that isn’t English,so how do you see that playing outover your residency at Brandeis?

JC: That’s an interesting ques-tion. I should say, the project beganin Barcelona, where I’ve lived formany years. I’ve met everybody inBarcelona, … and I’m pretty sure

that Brandeis is sorting out transla-tors from Spanish to English or Ara-bic to English for those of us whodon’t speak any English. I don’tknow what to expect; I’ve neverbeen to Brandeis, … and so it’s up toyou guys, as it were. We’re going todo what we do, and we’re excited tobe doing this. It’s totally amazing forus to be able to come to the States.Brandeis is helping us get the neces-sary visas to come into the country.It’s been a huge and exciting timefor us. … We’re interested that otherpeople are curious as to thethoughts behind our music.

—Andrea Fineman

MUSIC

Globetrotters ready to play at Deis■ DJ/rupture spoke to theJustice about his quintetNettle, a global group thatwill take up residency atBrandeis later this week.

The playwright and actor Eric Bo-gosian once said, “I write my plays tocreate an excuse for full-tilt actingand performing.” If ever a perform-ance fulfilled the intents and objec-tives of the work’s author, it wasZach Handler’s ’09 senior thesis,Freakshow. Freakshow features acompilation of monologues from sev-eral of Bogosian’s solo shows, includ-ing “Pounding Nails in the Floor withMy Forehead,” “Wake Up and Smellthe Coffee,” “Sex, Drugs, Rock &Roll,” “Men Inside,” “Funhouse” and“Drinking In America.”

Handler’s magnum opus was bornof a long-term relationship, one thatformed from the moment an adoles-cent Handler first read Bogosian’s“Pounding Nails in the Floor with MyForehead.” Through his characters,Bogosian haunts, demands, screamsand preaches on a multitude of topicsfrom bigotry to masturbation. Al-though still in middle school, Han-dler determined then and there thathe would someday perform Bo-gosian’s opulently dark work.

After years of interest, a semesterof writing and three months in re-hearsal with director Mike Martin’09, Freakshow may embody thewords of Eric Bogosian, but the talentand drive that is apparent to the au-dience is that of the performer, Han-dler. As per Bogosian’s stagedirections, a desk, a chair and apodium were the only set pieces, elon-gating the stage in Spingold’s Mer-rick Theater. Four props—atelephone, a magazine (one of ques-tionable or ‘Bogosian’ content), a boxand a microphone alternately pro-

vided context and comic relief.Handler’s arrangement provided a

range of characters and subject mat-ter as well as an “excuse for full-tiltacting and performing.” Freakshowexplores a multitude of levels, fromthe physical—standing on a boxshouting to sitting calmly at the edgeof the stage—to the intangible—char-acters range from a manipulative in-surance salesman to a street-cornerhustler.

Although each monologue was dis-tinct, it took Handler mere seconds totransform into a new character,adopting different voices, manner-isms, movements and relations withthe audience. Staying true to his in-spiration, Handler provided a varietyof material from the hysterical to thedisturbing. In a program note to spec-tators, Handler mentions that his fa-vorite aspect of Bogosian’s work is itsvisceral quality. In no portion ofFreakshow is Bogosian’s visceral ef-fect as evident as in “Fantasy.”

The monologue “Fantasy” featureda character standing behind a desk

and pleasuring himself while talkinggraphically to a dirty magazine. Thissegment—besides justifying the pro-gram’s disclaimer, “For Mature Au-diences Only”—had the audiencelaughing, gasping and feeling torn be-tween shock and amusement. Al-though difficult to watch, Handler’sdelivery of “Fantasy” clearlyachieves Bogosian’s goal of “full-tiltacting.”

As Fred Stanley from “Mutual In-surance,” Handler’s one-sided tele-phone conversation evoked raucouslaughter from the spectators. Thisparticular monologue featuredschemes familiar to anyone who’s in-teracted with a telemarketer—only,in true Bogosian manner, taken onestep further. Upon finding out thatthe wife of his prospective client isemployed, Handler’s calculatingcharacter proceeds to set up grue-some hypothetical situations: “Youget mugged, a gun goes off, you get abullet in the brain, you’re in a comafor months and months and months.”Continuing to spin vivid scenarios in

which the client’s family is left in-jured, unable to work and financiallyruined, Handler’s character connivesand charms until he achieves hisgoal.

Despite the fact that the individualmonologues come from another’swork, the triumph of Freakshow liesin Zach Handler’s creative abilities.His senior thesis amused, bewil-dered, enlightened and shocked, fol-lowing its original creator’s intent.Handler’s characters are opinion-ated, loud, persuasive, preachy,angry and shamelessly penitent. Fewaudience members will forget thecharacter from “Confession,” kneel-ing beneath a single light in centerstage. Although begging forgivenessfor a multitude of sins, Handler ex-uded ironic indifference, sending theaudience into fits and shouts oflaughter.

“Sexy, strange and superprovoca-tive. I loved it,” proclaimed Eli Cohen’09. There doesn’t seem to be any dis-pute among the spectators—Freak-show was an absolute success.

THEATER

‘Freakshow’ is a carnival of strange characters■ Zach Handler ’09 acted inhis senior thesis based onthe writings of Eric Bogosian,making for a bizarre andfunny theater experience.

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By SAMANTHA REIDJUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

ON CAMPUS

MUSICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS: The members of Nettle met in Spain and hail from three countries. From left to right: Abdel Hak, Khalid Bennaji, DJ/rupture and Jen Jones.PHOTO COURTESY OF GORDON LITTLE

Through reading David Pritchard’spress bio in preparation for the interview,I came to realize how important a figurehe is in film and television. A self-de-scribed “crazy person” who I had the“auspicious opportunity” to interview onMarch 6, Pritchard is a humble, compas-sionate and humorous person who, de-spite his astounding success (numerousaward nominations and five Emmyawards) in the worlds of business, filmand television, possesses a genuine inter-est and concern for his fellow human be-ings. These attributes are highlyapparent in his most recent endeavor, theacclaimed Jordanian film, Captain AbuRaed (directed by Amin Matalqa), whichwas screened at Sundance Film Festivaland opens in Boston in June. I encourageeveryone to attend Brandeis’ screening ofthe film on Saturday, March 21, at 4 p.m. Iknow I will, and not simply becausePritchard threatened to send me “a dirtynote and … dirty pictures” if I did not.

JustArts: I know that a major purposeof the film is to promote cross-culturalcommunication between the Middle Eastand the West. What progress has beenmade on that front in regard to the film,and do you find differing degrees of will-ingness to engage in dialogue from oneside versus the other?

David Pritchard: There are very fewways to communicate to a wide range ofpeople that is not electronic, that is notvideo and audio. The fastest and most pen-etrating manner of communicating whowe are, socially, culturally and privatelyis through film. And, I believe that somany of Western films about the Arabicworld ... contain Arab actors and Arabpeople and are pretty skewed toward vio-lence and anger and political and reli-gious people. I can give you a very specificexample of this: I screened [Captain AbuRaeb] at Sundance in January of 2008 for1,200 junior and high school students inOgden, Utah at 9 a.m.—I was frightened.Ogden, Utah, is a very conservative reli-gious community—Mormon, ... andyou’re getting a bunch of junior high and

high school students to come at 9 in themorning to see a foreign language film inArabic. So, I was expecting the worst, butthese kids were engaged … they werelaughing at all of the jokes; they weremoved by all of the conflict. They were es-pecially moved by the conflict betweenthe old man and the father and the sonwho Abu Raed helped. And, at the end ofthe film these kids were joking aroundwith each other and saying Arabic wordsthat were presented on the screen in Eng-lish subtitles in Arabic. So they were say-ing to each other salam, mahaba, shufi, ...[and] using that language breaks downcultural barriers instantaneously becausenow you have 1,200 kids there who knowthree or four words of Arabic, and whenthey meet an Arab they’re going to usethose words even if they do it in kind of agoofy way.

The girls in that theater ... deeply re-lated to the plight of the the female air-woman in her film, and after the film theyall wanted her autograph. They were get-ting their picture taken with her, and shehad stood up on the stage after the film—the actress who played Nour in the film,she got up on stage—and she said to them,“I’m a very strict Muslim.” ... And theseyoung girls wanted to talk to her to findout what it was like because they hadnever met a Muslim woman and when, bythe way, when [the actress] said it, all theguys in the theatre—you could hear them[gasp] because they were like “Whoa,” be-cause this is some hot woman and she’s aMuslim? So just that experience tells methat the more people that see the Arabworld in its honest presentation as thefilm has done, the higher the probabilitythat the cultural barriers and the culturaldifferences are going to get reduced. In theArab world they embrace this film whole-heartedly because it was the first timesomebody showed a cross-section of soci-ety without having it all be about politicsor religion—there’s no mention of politicsor religion in the film.

JA: As a follow-up to the last question,how did the goal of the promotion of cross-cultural communication influence yourdecision to hire a production crew com-posed of people from at least four conti-nents?

DP: Well it was really important for usto make the majority of the crew comingfrom Jordan and the rest of the Arabworld, so we specifically tried to fill every

key crew member that we could withArab-language crew members. Nowthere weren’t skilled people in Jordan, sowe had to go into Tunisia, Morocco,Lebanon and Syria and Algeria, and thenthere were people from Sweden and Ger-many and Canada, and the United Statesand England. So, it was a pretty widerange of crew, and we wanted ... to get asmany Arab crew members as possible,and of course the cast was completely Jor-danian.

And by the way, the boys and girls inthe film are all refugees, and 11 of them areorphans, so they all live in very, very aus-tere—pretty poor—conditions in refugeecamps in Jordan. … Most of them don’thave fathers. So you know it was impor-tant for us to have mostly Arab memberson the crew, and it was also importantthat we have crew members who youknow were going to be flexible and un-derstanding. You’re in a foreign country;you’ve got to adhere to different morals,different cultural taboos and differentways of talking to each other. … On the setthere were nine different languages spo-ken at different times.

JA: Captain Abu Raed is the first Jor-danian film to be exported worldwide.What was the Jordanian filmmaking in-dustry like before the production of AbuRaed, and what effects has internationalreception of the film had on potentialgrowth and development of Jordanianfilm?

DP: Well, it’s the first film in 50 years.There have been a couple of other films,but they have not had this kind of theatri-cal structure and budget. And the budgeton this was about $2 million. There havebeen a lot of other films—there’s a very ac-tive film community in Jordan that wasstarted by King Abdullah and QueenRanyah, and … there’ve been a lot of filmsmade there in Jordan—including the newTransformers movie [which] was shot inJordan—the one that’s coming out thissummer, so there’s a lot of films that areproduced in Jordan. Most of them are warfilms where they’re trying to have Jordandouble for Iraq or Iran or Lebanon orsome other war zone. This is the first onethat’s come out of there that’s actually adramatic narrative film that’s actually notabout war or religion. And, one of thethings that was really important to all ofus who were associated with this film isthat … we actually demonstrate to the

world that the Arab world is not justabout death—that it’s about the people.

The effect on the Jordanian film indus-try, I mean there’s a film school that hasinducted the first class, [which] is gradu-ating next year, and the film school’s inAqaba, Jordan, in the south of Jordanand, … that school is in association withthe University of Southern California filmschool, so that the professors from USCare over there teaching young Jordanian[and] other Arab kids from around theArab world how to make films and televi-sion shows. So, I think this film is going tohave a dramatic impact, and … what I’mhoping is that it encourages other film-makers in the Arab world to make filmslike this that actually inspire young peo-ple to tell their personal stories and theirpersonal journeys.

And I think that it’s important that thefilm is being exported around the world.The film is being distributed in practicallyevery country in the world—all over Eu-rope and all over South America and allover Asia and in the United States, and itstarts in theaters in the United States inJune. … What that does for Jordan is thatit’s a copyright that’s controlled by the in-vestors in Jordan, and that copyrightedfilm is being exported commercially allover the world, so it’s a way for Jordan tobuild a net export business ... [and] createa product that’s selling all over the world,and that product has residual value to Jor-dan—it’s expressing their culture andtheir society and their people in a waythat is really, really constructive and pos-itive. So, it has a double impact: You’vecreated a product that you actually makemoney on, and at the same time you’retelling a story that represents the truthabout your country as opposed to someskewed media presentation. So, I think interms of it being positive all around—Idon’t think anything is more positivethan that.

JA: Brandeis University recently an-nounced its new Film [Studies] major andis seriously discussing adding a Businessmajor as well. For students interested inone or both fields as a long-term careergoal, would you emphasize undergradu-ate and graduate work, practical experi-ence or both as the most valuable meansto achieve it?

DP: Well, having a formal education inany subject is a necessity, and it’s becauseof the process you have to [go] through to

get that information. It’s not about fillingthe mind with information as much as itis the sparking the inquisitive nature ofthe mind, and what I believe is that whenyou’re getting a degree—especially in acollege as prestigious as Brandeis—youhave to work, you have to apply yourself,you have to get up early, you have to read,you’ve got to be prepared, you have tomanage your time, you have to have a ca-pacity to present, to defend your position.All of those things happen at a universitycampus. In four years you grow so muchthat you don’t really remember all theskills that you’ve adapted or that you’velearned from your experiences at a uni-versity, but they stay with you forever.

And so the formal education is ab-solutely a requirement, and the practicalexperience teaches you how to get alongwith people—how to not make the samemistake twice—because that’s the differ-ence between people who are successfuland people who aren’t: They learn fromtheir mistakes. And the other thing is ifyou want to be good at anything, you’vegot to just keep doing it. There’s a greatbook—you know Malcolm Gladwell haswritten this book called The Outliers(he’swritten a bunch of great books—youknow, many of them are pop culture-ori-ented). But in The Outliers, Mr. Gladwellsays that if you put 10,000 hours into a par-ticular subject or into a particular processthat you’re going to become pretty muchan expert at it. But 10,000 hours is a lot oftime, and the practical experience on topof the formal education, I think, preparesyou to do anything, and I would encour-age anybody who wants to major in thefilm business to understand the financialand business side of it because it is a com-mercial enterprise and it requires finan-cial discipline to be successful … andvice-versa. you can’t do it as just a busi-ness. You’ve got to understand dramaticstructure, and you’ve got to understandliterature and human motivation becausethat’s what makes a story compelling.Same as in The Simpsons; The Simpsonsis funny, and you keep watching it. And,you know those characters, but you keepwatching it because there’s a lot that goesinto what those characters say and do. It’sentertaining, but it’s really good dramaticstructure and really good literature.

—William-Bernard Reid-Varley

Pritchard discusses bridging gaps

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■ Through the film ‘CaptainAbu Raed,’ the producerhopes to educate audienceson Arabic culture.

PRAGMATIC PRODUCER: David Pritchard, whose production credits include such television shows as ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Family Guy,’ hopes the film ‘Captain Abu Raeb’ will reach and inform a wide range of people.PHOTO COURTESY OF DOMINION3

BRINGING THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE WEST

At last week’s Music at Noon, afor-the-most-part monthly perform-ance by the Lydian String Quartet inthe Rose Art Museum, I countedonly two other students, both sittingnext to me in the back. I’d estimatethe average age of the crowd, nearly

60 people, to be just that—at least 60years. It’s certainly a Brandeiscliché to mourn the lack of studentsat campus events; however, duringthis era in the University’s history, Ithink it merits examination.

For those who aren’t avid fans ofBrandeis’ in-house string quartet,the Lydian String Quartet consistsof Profs. Daniel Stepner (MUS), firstviolin; Judith Eissenberg (MUS),second violin; Mary Ruth Ray(MUS), viola; and Joshua Gordon(MUS), cello. The group chooses itsprogramming in five-year cycles;the current cycle, titled “Around theWorld in a String Quartet,” began inthe fall of 2006 and has led the fourprofessors to investigate stringquartet music from composers of all

nations. Last Saturday’s concert, for which

the Music at Noon performanceserved as a sort of preview, featuredtwo traditional European com-posers, Beethoven andMendelssohn, as well as ErnöDohnányi, a Hungarian composerwhose anti-Nazi sentiments led himto resign his post as director of theBudapest Academy in 1941. Ulti-mately, Dohnányi emigrated to theUnited States and taught at FloridaState University for ten years, untilhis death in 1960.

Though Wednesday’s programwas not exactly to my tastes (it con-sisted of two pieces—Dohnányi’sSerenade in C Major for String Trio,Op. 10 and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in

A Minor, Op. 13), one certainly can-not question the Lydians’ consum-mate skill. In light of Eissenberg’srecent elbow surgery, the quartetwas missing its second violinist dur-ing the Dohnányi piece. (A substi-tute violinist, Danielle Maddon,joined the group to play theMendelssohn piece that followed.)Yet even without one of their mem-bers, the group had no trouble fill-ing the gallery with a deep, richsound.

A highlight of the performancewas an introduction to theMendelssohn quartet—a short songcalled “Frage” (“Question”)—per-formed by Katherine Schram ’09.The song, written by Mendelssohnat the age of 15, was short and sim-

ple, but Schram’s performance wasabsolutely wonderful. The quartetthat followed, which Mendelssohnwrote about three years after thesong, drew from the themes of theshort song over the course of itsmovements.

Despite being reduced to a part-time status as part of the Univer-sity’s economic “belt-tightening,”the group has a lot on its plate thisspring. Besides its usual Saturdaynight concert, the group is workingon a plan to record Beethoven’s lastfive string quartets. However, Step-ner warned me that next season’sconcert schedule (which corre-sponds to the 2009 to 2010 academicyear) may be cut back due to thegroup’s reduced salaries.

Lydians continue their musical journey■ During a Music at Noonsession, the group played twopieces that embodied its current musical cycle, “Aroundthe World in a String Quartet.”

You’ve got to hand it to CliveDavis—the man knows how to stickit to his detractors. After caving infollowing a rather public disagree-ment with Kelly Clarkson and sub-sequently allowing the pop star torelease her moderately successfulself-described “expression” piece,My December, he finds himself backin the producer’s chair, and you canbet he’s chuckling himself to tears.Just look at the album cover he’schosen: a tight-lipped, teeth-clenched Clarkson who has been re-

touched to near-Mariah proportionsand photographed against aschlocky, candy-coated backdrop ofcolor. The cover has also been pairedwith a blinged-out glittery font fea-turing what will surely go down asone of the most loaded album titlesin some time: All I Ever Wanted.

Now that’s one hell of a way to say,“I told you so.”

After once openly scoffing at thenotion of covering unused LindsayLohan session tracks for her lastalbum, Clarkson now finds herselfwaist-deep in Katy Perry rejects onAll I Ever Wanted. Examples includethe moderately appealing, upcom-ing, second single, “I Do Not HookUp,” a hook-heavy ode to anti-promiscuity that, when released,may very well fashion Clarkson asthe next Pat Benatar for the PromiseRing generation.

If not a Perry castaway, most ofthe album’s tracks still ooze with a

Top 40 familiarity, which is neithera compliment nor a particularlystinging criticism given the genre inquestion. The up-tempo electro-rocker “If I Can’t Have You” wedgesitself nicely between Rihanna’s “Dis-turbia” and the crunchier elementsof Miley Cyrus’ “Fly On The Wall,”while “Already Gone” proves unsur-prisingly identical to Beyoncé’s“Halo” (both tracks were overseenby the same producer, Ryan Tedder).But the most obvious of all is thealbum’s flagrant shift in the direc-tion of P!nk-friendly pop-rock—giveone listen to the chorus of “Don’t LetMe Stop You” with both eyes closedand tell me that couldn’t be a singlestraight off of Funhouse.

Similarly, many of the otheralbum’s squeaky-clean confections,including “Long Shot” and the un-fortunately titled “Whyyawannabri-ngmedown,” deliver a hearty punchof driving guitar and raging drums

that rival the raucousness of the 2007rebellion piece My December—onlythis time relying on a heavy dose ofoverly produced instrumentation.

As a result, Clarkson teeters dan-gerously close to the limit of hervocal capabilities from time to time(“All I Ever Wanted”), as the albumfeatures no less than three toe-curl-ing power notes that threaten tosnap her vocal cords like a pianowire under high tension. Fear not,as they’re still intact—though a lighttouch of rasp now graces the singer’slower register after years of abuse.

Power ballads including “Cry”and “Impossible” provide thealbum’s highest artistic points, fea-turing sluggish drum pacing andconcert-ready power vocals sure tobe met with the glow of a thousandswinging cell phones lifted high dur-ing the next tour. “Ready” is anothersuccess, transforming the already-catchy acoustic rendition that

leaked last year into an encouragingelectro-flourish of swaying guitarand uplifting vocals.

Make no mistake—despite enough“guilty pleasure” cheese lyrics andclever production techniques toqualify for the Radio Disney queue,Clarkson’s latest is in many ways anaural smash, delivering a solid col-lection of slap-happy pop bangersand arena-lite ballads guaranteed toprovide the soundtrack to many alip-synch session on long road tripsand rainy days.

Sure, it’s far from all I everwanted to see coming from Clark-son. After all, if I had my way, she’dbe strapping on a guitar at this veryminute, growing out her hair togrungy proportions, roughing up thedrunks at the local dive bar andtrailblazing the revival of LillithFair.

But until then, I suppose I’ll keepdreaming.

ALBUM REVIEW

Clarkson returns with a candy-coated album■ The pop star’s latestrecord, ‘All I Ever Wanted,’features songs that are onceagain Top 40 friendly.

By ANDREA FINEMANJUSTICE EDITOR

By BRAD STERNJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

22 TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009 ● THE JUSTICE

SPEAKING THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: From left, Profs. Daniel Stepner (MUS), Joshua Gordon (MUS) and Mary Ruth Ray (MUS) played Dohnányi’s ‘Serenade in C Major for String Trio, Op. 10’ and Mendelssohn’s ‘Quartet in A Minor, Op. 13.’JULIAN AGIN-LIEBES/the Justice

REFINEMENT AT THE ROSE

Beneath the filtered light of a roomwhose layout subtly echoes that of anItalian cathedral—long and rectan-gular, with window-shaped ceilingtiles diffusing fluorescent lights—oneexperiences momentary escape andis transported back to an age whenartists were just beginning to explorethe breathtaking potentials of canvasas a medium for large-scale, perma-nent oil paintings. To see the intri-cate diamond weave in thedeliberately creased and starchedlinen tablecloth in Titian’s “Supperat Emmaus,” a detail only achievablewith canvas, one must lean closeenough to the painting to make themuseum guards nervous.

Hidden treasures such as thisabound in “Titian, Tintoretto,Veronese: Rivals in RenaissanceVenice,”a collection of works fromthree master Venetian painters dur-ing the Italian Renaissance. This is aunique exhibit in which the paint-ings were grouped to showcase threeartists’ mutual influence and inter-action. Here, Frederick Ilchman, as-sistant curator of paintings atBoston’s Museum of Fine Arts, ex-plores nearly three decades of artis-tic rivalry.

Titian (né Tiziano Vecellio), theoldest of the three and born justnorth of Venice, arrived in the “Cityof Water” at the start of the 16th cen-tury. After studying under influen-tial Italian Renaissance painterGiovanni Bellini, Titian establishedhimself as a frontrunner in the Vene-tian school by his early 20s, receivinga salary from the city’s senate. Al-though well-known for his land-scapes and portraits, Titian’spaintings in this exhibit focus on avariety of themes he shares with Tin-toretto and Veronese.

Jacopo Robusti was nearly 30 yearsyounger than Titian. The son of acloth dyer, Robusti became known as“little dyer,” or “Tintoretto.” Tin-toretto, the sole native Venetian ofthe exhibit, inextricably linked hiscareer to his rivalry with Titian.

Paolo Caliari, widely known asVeronese (a native son of the city ofVerona), did not arrive in Venice

until Titian was more than 60 yearsold and Tintoretto had garnered fameand commissions to rival the oldermaster. The young Veronese sur-passed his teachers in Parma andbrought with him considerable talentand training.

The exhibit juxtaposes works fromeach artist in thematically-centeredgroupings. Unlike most exhibits, thepaintings are not chronological, butrather grouped by subject matter, al-lowing the viewer to compare influ-ence and technique among the threecontemporaries.

From nude mythological icons totunic-clad religious images, Titian,Tintoretto and Veronese createdmasterpieces featuring creamy-fleshed goddesses and Biblical fig-ures robed in garments richlydetailed with highlights, mimickingmany fabrics, including linens,satins and silks.

Details such as these elevate theenjoyment and clarity of the exhibit’spurpose. Reading a little about theartists or the exhibit ahead of time orgetting an audio tour may increaseyour attention to detail and thus yourunderstanding of the display’s goal.

By positioning works in this man-ner, each grouping encourages theviewer to seek and appreciate ele-ments that they otherwise may nothave noticed. Comparing the rivals’commonalities and differences in-vites the viewer to interact with thepaintings. Just as part of the collec-tion’s intent is to provide a new per-spective on an old rivalry, so too havethe restorations necessary for sev-eral of the paintings unearthed newdiscoveries.

Nearly halfway through the ex-hibit is a room dedicated to a scien-tific theme—the science of usingX-rays and infrared light to look be-neath layers of centuries-old oilpaints. Previously unseen images ap-pear, revealing, among other secrets,that Tintoretto’s “The Nativity” wasconstructed from previously usedcanvases, which were cut, resewnand repainted to create the work seentoday. In keeping with the exhibit’stheme of rivalry, Titian andVeronese are not to be overlooked—each artist has a featured paintingthat revealed hidden mysteries.

Organized by the Museum of FineArts, Boston and the Musée du Lou-vre, Paris, Titian, Tintoretto andVeronese can be seen at the MFAfrom March 15 through August 16 inthe MFA’s Gund Gallery. Ticket andvisiting information can be found atthe exhibit’s Web site:h t t p : / / w w w . m f a .org/venice/visit.html.

ART

Venetian rivalries arrive at MFA■ The works composing themuseum’s new exhibit, “Titian,Tintoretto, Veronese,” embodythe artists’ artistic interactionsand conflicts.

The Melting Pot dining experi-ence contains contradictions thatbegin with its very name. I, for one,have never witnessed the processthat the name describes, yet theterm sums up the culinary eventthat occurs at each table. As a chainof fondue restaurants all over theUnited States, the Melting Pot pro-vides a strange palate- and mind-changing meal.

A band of myriad musiciansplayed in the bar as I waited for mytable. Their music was soothingafter the hostess informed me Iwould have to wait for three othergroups to be seated before me de-spite my reservation. I was finallyseated 15 minutes after my origi-nally ordained time. It was the firstcontradiction: I didn’t like waiting,but the Elton John look-alike on thekeyboards softened my initial nega-

tive impression. The high tables and winding cor-

ridors provided a private and quietatmosphere with each group situ-ated in its own little nook. Eachnook was equipped with a squaretable and a bench that circledaround three corners of the table,leaving one side free for the server.The Melting Pot makes fondue in-teractive; the patrons are put incharge of manning their own fon-due pots, and double boilers sit atopa black stove on each table. (Fon-due, for those unacquainted withthe word, means melted in Frenchand usually consists of meltedchocolate or cheese with variousdippers like strawberries or bread,respectively. Because chocolate andcheese are so delicate, they requiredouble boilers to ensure they do notburn).

Another contradiction lay insidethe menu. It was one of the mostconfusing menus I have everseen—the servers need to explainthe process before customers caneven begin the laborious process ofdeciding what to order. Most en-trées come with a choice of fondueand salad and a choice of “prepara-tion style.” The fondue choices in-clude Swiss cheese, cheddar cheeseor spinach and artichoke dip withfontina cheese. The salads are noth-

ing unusual, ranging from a housesalad to Caesar salad, but the Melt-ing Pot makes its own dressing toaccompany the dish. Steak, lobster,shrimp, chicken or vegetables canbe entrées, with coq au vin, mojostyle with citrus and mint, Cajun orsimple broth available as prepara-tion styles. Our server was knowl-edgeable and as a chef herself, gavehelpful suggestions on what toorder. She brought over the ingre-dients for the cheese fondue andprepared the appetizer herself, mix-ing vegetable broth, spinach, garlic,artichokes and two kinds of cheesesfor the spinach and artichoke dip inthe double boiler on the table. Thecheese fondue was served with abowl of three kinds of bread, fresh,raw carrots, cauliflower, celery andGranny Smith apples to dip insidethe pot. The bread was a tasty ac-companiment to the thick, viscouscheese and the sweet and tart ap-ples enhanced the salty flavor.

For the entrée, the server pre-pared the mojo sauce inside the pot,creating a thin broth of lemon, mintand garlic, and placed down a plateof raw chicken, barely cooked steakand raw shrimp. She explained theprocess of cooking the meal, thoughher less-than-clear explanation in-volved cooking times for the meatand a suggested procedure of drop-

ping the vegetables directly into thepot for cooking.

I believe my date and I are bothintelligent people, but it took us fartoo long to realize we needed tospear the meat and dip it inside thefondue pot to cook it. I had not fath-omed that a fondue restaurantwould actually include meat fondueand I worried about a restaurantthat would trust its customers tocook their own meat. With the esti-mated cooking times of two minutesfor chicken and steak, a minute anda half for the shrimp and five min-utes for the vegetables, we preparedour own meals, one slow piece ofmeat after another. We only hadfour fondue forks and could onlycook a few bites at a time. Accord-ing to popular legend, the taste offood is directly proportional to theeffort it takes to prepare it. In thatcase, the slow process of cookingeach bite of chicken individuallyenhanced its taste exponentially.With six different sauces for themeat and vegetables, the mealslowly became delicious.

But I had come to the Melting Potfor one thing: chocolate fondue. Wepicked the Chocolate S’mores,which consist of marshmallowcream and graham crackersblended and flambéed with liquidmilk chocolate. Again, the server

mixed all the ingredients tablesideand handed us a plate divided inhalf, one side for each person. Wedipped strawberries, pound cake,brownies, cheesecake, bananas,marshmallows and rice crispiecubes into the marshmallow, choco-late, graham cracker mixture. Thechocolate had a perfect texture,thin enough to dip easily withoutgetting stuck but thick enough totaste the flavors of each component.

However, the food at the MeltingPot was extremely overpriced andwould not fit the budget of thosecollege students who lack dotingparents to take them out on a week-end. Certainly, by cooking our ownentrees, one would assume theprice of the meal would be reduced.But, for one cheese fondue, onesalad, one entrée and one chocolatefondue, we paid $85 (including tip),an exorbitant amount for two mod-erately hungry people and for theenergy expended in the process. Isuggest visiting just to order cheeseand chocolate fondue; skip thesalad and entrée.

There are three Melting Potrestaurants in Massachusetts: offRoute 9 in Framingham near theNatick Collection, down the roadfrom the Burlington Mall inBurlington and in Boston’s BackBay neighborhood.

FOOD

Melting Pot burns patrons with high prices■ While the fondue-centricrestaurant served up a delicious dessert, the localewas plagued by exorbitantfees and a confusing menu.

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By CAROLINE HUGHESJUSTICE STAFF WRITER

WILTING “FLORA”: This painting by Titian, which was created between 1516 and 1518,was painted on canvas with oil paints.PHOTO COURTESY OF BOSTON’S MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

24 TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009 ● THE JUSTICE

Through the Lens

REBECCA NEY/the Justice

BRANDEIS

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Although youtend to bore easily and leave others to finishwhat you start, this is one time when you’d bewise to complete things on your own. Then youcan move on to something new.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your indecisionabout a personal situation might come out ofthose mixed signals you’re getting. Best not tomake any commitments until you have a bettersense of how things are going.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A disputeappears to be getting out of hand. But youshould be able to step in and bring it all undercontrol soon. Be patient. News about a potentialcareer move might be delayed.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Career obliga-tions could interfere with important personalplans. But using a combination of commonsense and compromise helps resolve the dilem-ma to everyone’s satisfaction.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) A stressful situa-tion drains some of your energy reserves. Butyou soon bounce back in time to finish yourtasks and enjoy a well-deserved weekend get-away.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) This is agood time to throw a party for friends and col-leagues and surprise them with your dazzlingdomestic skills. You might also want to recon-sider that career move you put on hold.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A suddenchange of mind by someone you relied on couldcause a delay in moving ahead with your plans.But those whom you’ve helped out before areprepared to return the favor.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Youstart the week feeling too shy to speak up infront of others. However, your self-assurance

soon takes over, giving you the confidence youneed to make yourself heard.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December21) One way to deal with a pesky personal dilem-ma this week is to meet it head-on. Insist on anexplanation of why the situation reached thispoint and what can be done to change it.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19)The creative Capricorn finds several outlets forher or his talents this week. Also note that whilea romantic connection looks promising, remem-ber to allow it to develop on its own.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Youstand out this week as the best friend a friendcan have. But be careful that you don’t take toomany bows, or you might see gratitude replacedwith resentment.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Whatseems to be an ideal investment should bechecked out thoroughly before you snap at theoffer and find yourself hooked by an expensivescam.

BORN THIS WEEK: Your wisdom is matchedby your generosity. You are a person whom peo-ple know they can rely on.

ACROSS1. Urban fleet5. Sleep phenom, for short8. Afflictions12. Huge snake14. $50 Monopoly payment15. Labyrinth critter16. Notion17.Fleur-de- —18. Straighten things20. Alumni23. Conflagration24. Charged particles25. Least28. Roscoe29. Cartons30. Vast expanse32. Mosque tower34. Mends cuffs35. — and crafts36. Praise37. No alternative?40. The stuff we breathe41. Lambs’ dams42. Ores47. Unescorted48. Lift49. Entreaty50. Tier51. Bigfoot’s Asian cousin

DOWN1. Rotating part2. Blackbird3. Proscribe4. Berates5. Genetic acids, briefly6. School’s Web address suffix7. Strict disciplinarian8. In the same place (Lat.)9. Gentlewoman10. Stead

11. Rebuff a masher13. Cole Porter’s “Miss —Regrets”19. Eye part20. Showbiz job21. Wander22. Opposed to23. Repairs25. Charlie McCarthy’s palSnerd26. Secondhand27. Note to the staff29. Say “bow-wow”

31. Donkey33. Extreme disgust34. “Yippee!”36. Ukraine capital37. Iodine-rich seaweed38. MPs’ quarry39. Part of N.B.40. From the beginning43. U.N. work agcy.44. Chowed down on45. Parcel of land46. — Lanka

King Crossword Copyright 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.

Carbon copiesThis sculpture outside the FacultyClub outlines the bodies of two menwithin a double helix structure.The sculpture reminds us that

humans have a lot in common witheach other: 99 percent of a person’sDNA is identical to that of all otherhumans.

Enter digits from 1to 9 into each blankspace so that everyrow, column and3x3 square containsone of each digit.

Sudoku Copyright 2007King Features Synd., Inc.

Sudoku

■ It was Scott Adams, best known as the cre-ator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, who made thefollowing observation: “Give a man a fish, andyou’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish,and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungryman about fish, and you’re a consultant.”

■ Many people believe that 24-karat gold ispure, but that’s not true—it has a small amountof copper blended with the gold. The reason ispractical: Pure gold is so soft that if you were tofind an absolutely pure sample, you would beable to mold it with your bare hands.

■ You may be surprised to learn that the thirdpresident of the United States, ThomasJefferson, was more than a revolutionaryleader and politician—he was also the inventorof the dumbwaiter.

■ Do you suffer from misoneism? Quite a fewpeople these days seem to. It’s a hatred or fearof change or innovation.

■ If you’ve got extra money on your hands—alot of extra money—the next time you’re updat-ing your wardrobe, you might take a look atEscada’s couture line of jeans, which, withprices starting at $7,500, is the most expensivein the world.

■ During the Revolutionary War, the Britishhired mercenary Hessian soldiers to fight forthem against the colonists. The reward for put-ting life and limb at risk for a cause not theirs?A grand total of 25 cents per day.

■ Attention fisherfolk: If you happen to catchand gut the species known as the garfish, you’llfind green bones inside it.

Thought for the Day: “The average, healthy,well-adjusted adult gets up at 7:30 in the morn-ing feeling just plain terrible.”—Jean Kerr

Solution to last issue’s crossword.