Initially, I wanted to use this letter of resignation to explain to the Brandeis community how legitimate anger was illegitimately placed on the shoulders of the Justice Editorial Board. I wanted to explain how sick it made me when 80 angry students felt they needed to scream, "We're not niggers " on Monday night.

I wanted to explain how the duplicity of certain members of the administration led to my resignation on false pretenses.

I wanted to say Brandeisians should not attempt to rip apart the Justice for mistakenly printing reprehensible sentiments in our pages, but should demand to know from each other why such sentiments exist in our community.

I genuinely wanted to do all of this, but I was busy putting together a newspaper.

I guess some things are just more important than others.

Let me instead use this space to thank those people whose hearts and minds stayed in the right places throughout this whole ordeal.

Besides, attempting to get my thoughts and feelings into your heads at this stage of the game is a foolish business - certainly not one I'm fit to undertake after such a taxing week.

I hope we all learned something from these memorable ten days; I'm told that's what we're here to do.

- Stephen Heyman '06