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“‘Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love,’” Dean of Students Jamele Adams stated at the 11th annual Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on Monday night. The quote, which comes from the event’s namesake, was one of many shared that night by speakers and performers who wished to convey the many aspects of Black history and the Civil Rights movement that King embodied.
The baseball team had two players named to the All-University Athletic Association Conference Team on May 8, highlighted by Rookie of the Year honors for shortstop Nick Falkson ’18.
After a busy week that featured five games, the baseball team took its record to 12-19 overall. The team won both games of a doubleheader against Trinity College on Sunday afternoon, 4-2 and 3-1. The squad lost to Salve Regina University 14-7 on Friday, 10-7 against Gordon College on Thursday and 7-5 against Curry College on Wednesday.
The first round of the National Hockey League playoffs has almost come to an end. Only two series have not been decided as of Sunday, with the Washington Capitals hosting the New York Islanders in the Verizon Center in a deciding Game 7 and the Detroit Red Wings heading back to Joe Louis Arena to attempt to upset the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
On April 8, a jury of seven women and five men deliberated for 11 and a half hours before coming to a guilty verdict in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man accused of participating in the Boston Marathon bombing two years ago. He was convicted of 30 counts, including conspiracy to commit mass destruction, bombing a place of public use and aiding and abetting in the bombing and the attacks following it, including the death of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier two years ago. Of these, 17 counts could send him to death row. On April 21, the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev’s trial will start. The jury has to vote unanimously in order to impose the death penalty. How do you react to the guilty verdict, and do you think that the death penalty should be considered?
The baseball team went 1-2 on a week that saw its fair share of highs and lows last week.
WINDUP: Pitcher Sean O’Neill ’18 pitches in the Judges’ 5-4 defeat against regional competitor Tufts University on April 4.
The men and women’s track and field teams took part in the Sean Collier Invitational on Saturday. The women’s squad led the way in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-hosted meet with two first-place finishes, while the men’s squad only managed one top-five finish.
The men’s baseball team traveled to University Athletic Association rival New York University this past weekend. The squad came away with three victories, 3-1 on Sunday and 4-2 and 11-8 on Saturday.
The baseball team went 2-6 last week as they traveled to Sanford, Fla. to compete against University Athletic Association opponents. The Judges finished their trip defeating Case Western Reserve University 12-8 on Sunday and New York University 8-6 on Saturday.
The United States Men’s National Soccer Team defeated Panama 2-0 Sunday afternoon to stop a five-game skid. Midfielder Michael Bradley and forward Clint Dempsey scored for the Americans to lead them to victory.
Amira & Sam is the perfect comedy for Brandeis students, combining social issues with the classic notions of a romantic comedy. The film, directed by Sean Mullin, combines war and Wall Street elitism in a romantic comedy that surprisingly is not as atypical as one might expect.
Members of the Brandeis community gathered Monday night in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater for the University’s 10th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which included various performances and featured a keynote address from Dr. Roy DeBerry ’70.
On Jan. 5, jury selection began for the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the men accused of planting a bomb near the end of the Boston Marathon in April 2013. This resulted in the deaths of three people and injured some 260 people. Tzarnaev and his brother Tamerlan also allegedly shot and killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier. After Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. denied the defense’s request to move the trial out of Boston, the impartiality of the jury has become a concern. Jury selection is a rigorous process that may take weeks, selecting out of a jury pool of 1,200 to make a panel of 12 jurors. Some, like Michael Coyne, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover, Mass., “have real concerns that no matter who sits on the jury, they have been impacted in some way by the Marathon bombings.” Do you feel that an impartial jury is possible?
This past June, Stanford University professors Shanto Iyengar and Sean J. Westwood released a new study titled “Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization.” The findings are fascinating. In the study, subjects were given simple association tests in which a proctor told them a word, and, in as little time as possible, the subject had to state the first thing they associated with that word. The subjects were given this test twice, once comparing whites and African-Americans and once comparing Democrats and Republicans. Across the board, responses were faster and harsher for the political associations while the racial associations were made more slowly and neutrally. This test, known as the Brief Implicit Association Test, is commonly used to determine bias and prejudice against given groups. It now appears that prejudice against people of different political opinions is more common, more fierce and more acceptable than prejudice against people of different races.
On Aug. 9, white police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Wilson allegedly acted in self-defense, though witness reports contain conflicting accounts of who was the aggressor. Since then, Ferguson residents have gathered in both peaceful and violent protest against the teenager’s killing and what residents call a long pattern of police harassment of the city’s African-American community. Police have responded by instituting curfews, arresting protestors and firing at crowds with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters. Media analysts have drawn parallels to the shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012. Do you see a trend of racial bias in law enforcement violence between these and other cases? If so, what can be done to end this trend?
Last week, I was asked by the Justice to write a piece on the Palestine-Israel conflict. I said no. I was asked because the Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee was already due to submit a piece on the conflict, specifically focused on the war in Gaza this past summer, and the Justice wanted to showcase a “point/counter-point” section. Seems like a great idea, showcasing an important and complicated conflict, and allowing the reader to decide for themselves with whom they most agree. But still, I said no.
“Do we criticize them, or do we remain silent?”
It’s fall TV time, which means brand-new seasons of returning favorites as well as premieres of hot new series. Some returning shows include comedy smash The Big Bang Theory, as well as the long-running crime drama Bones and Netflix’s House of Cards.
As the new year of classes starts up, Brandeis students are already planning ways to wind down, starting with a stellar lineup for the annual Fall Concert Series. Sponsored by Student Events, the series will feature American pop and hip-hop performer Mike Posner and Canadian reggae-fusion band Magic!