VOL 5, NO. 22 MARCH 20, 2009 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY'S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER THEHOOT.NET Increase in student population could flood Waltham low-income housing market BY ARIEL WITTENBERG Yet while JBS, which is up for increase in undergraduates living Editor consideration by the Board of off campus during the academic When university administra- Trustees on Wednesday, was cre- year, assuming that all Brandeis tors decided to help close the ated with campus facilities in beds are filled and that no stu- budget gap by increasing the un- mind, The Hoot’s calculations of dents are living abroad apart from dergraduate population by 400 JBS and Waltham housing statis- JBS. students by the fall of 2014, the tics suggest that JBS would not Such an increase would either Faculty Senate’s Curriculum and negate the impact that 400 ad- cause Waltham rental prices to Academic Restructuring Steering ditional students would have on rise considerably, or would drive Committee (CARS) developed Waltham’s low-income housing low-income families out of the the Justice Brandeis Semester market. city and away from their work. (JBS) to lessen the overcrowding In fact, even with JBS, increas- This potential increase in stu- that could be caused by additional ing the student population by dents off campus stems from the students. 400 would lead to a 73.9 percent See HOUSING, p. 3 Students honor fallen soldiers at peace vigil BY KAYLA DOS SANTOS senting the deaths of ten Ameri- er, [this is] a very peaceful event.” Editor can soldiers. For the previous anniversary, Students gathered outside of During the vigil, attendees over 100 students came together Pearlman Lounge to remember stood in a circle to sing songs, to protest the war in Iraq and, and honor those who have died gave personal statements and during the event, the names of in the Iraq War on Thursday in read poems. DFA member Lev the soldiers who died were read order to mark the 6th anniversary Hirschhorn ’11 commented on aloud. of the war. the atmosphere of the peace vigil Paraska Tolan ’11, who primari- Before the vigil, which was and how it contrasted with the ly organized this year’s event, said PHOTO BY Max Shay/The Hoot hosted by Democracy For Amer- previous year’s gathering. “Last “[last year was] more political, OFF CAMPUS: Tony Rios ‘11 outside of an off campus house he is considering ica, group members lined campus year we were angry, we walked more about sending a message to renting with two friends next year. As the Brandeis student population increases, the Bush administration…with a more students will be forced to live off campus, driving up rental prices for low- walkways with approximately 400 through campus…we expressed our anger. Here now one year lat- income families. American flags, each flag repre- See IRAQ, p. 4 Gray calls for more student Symposium provides perspectives involvment in univ. decisions BY ARIEL WITTENBERG Editor “I challenge the university ad- on value of the Rose Art Museum ministration…to find tangible brought together notable literary force across social classes. He also Student Union President Jason ways to invest in the long-term BY MAX PRICE and cultural figures from the sur- sought to remind the audience of Editor Gray ‘10 urged the university ad- future of the arts at Brandeis,” he rounding area as well as Brandeis Brandeis’ history and mission as a ministration to include students said. “I call for a series of meet- “We object.” faculty and students. Taking place nonsectarian university providing in university decisions pertaining ings between administrators and This repeated, emphatic dec- in the Lois Foster Wing of the equal opportunity for all at a time to the budget crisis at his State of members of our artistic commu- laration of opposition came not Rose, the discussion of the role of when other curators of culture the Union Tuesday night. nity to discuss ways to ensure that from one of the noteworthy pan- art in trying times stood against (including prestigious universi- “A deliberative, inclusive pro- Brandeis remains a fertile ground elists, faculty, or students at the the backdrop of the vibrant, col- ties like Harvard, Yale and Princ- cess leads to better decisions,” he for artistic creativity even amidst Rose symposium on Monday orful Hans Hoffman exhibit. eton) limited the admittance of said. “When sacrifices are neces- the financial situation.” night, but from the Rose family Each panelist tackled the di- Jews. sary, it is of utmost importance to Gray also said that the financial itself. The statement, issued after lemma of the Rose from a differ- Renowned literary critic Ste- have full community involvement situation should not discourage an address by Museum Director ent vantage point. Former Poet phen Greenblatt offered reflec- in the process.” community members’ faith in the Michael Rush, demanded Laureate Consultant in Poetry to tions on the necessity of art in Gray cited the study abroad university. that the times of distress from merit aid decision and the initial “This is a challenge that we will u n i v e r - his standpoint as a authorization of the closing of the overcome. Our history mandates sity cease Harvard professor and Rose Art Museum as examples nothing less, and our student its plans member of the Har- where the administration had body will accept nothing less,” he to close vard Task Force on not used an inclusive process to said. “Our financial picture may t h e the Arts. This com- make decisions.He also said that be gloomy, but our future could museum mittee has insisted that he believed formation of the Rose not be any brighter.” and sell the arts are central to Committee—which will provide At the state of the union Gray its art. In the university’s aca- recommendations to the admin- also announced that he will not a night demic mission. “The istration for how to better incor- be running for re-election as of poi- boundary, bright line porate the Rose into the academic President. Sign-ups for all Union gnant insight into the mean- between art making, collecting mission of the university—marks positions up for elections went ing, purpose and value of art, this the Library of Congress, Robert and exhibiting on the one hand a step in the right direction. up following the speech. While stood out as a moment of clear-cut Pinsky, quoted a poem by Keats, and education on the other,” he Gray did say, however, that the potential candidates have until defiance against an administra- “Ode to a Nightingale,” to illus- explained, “has given way to a administration’s original blunder Wednesday to sign up outside tion that would sell valued works trate the importance of transmit- much more vital interaction be- in announcing the authorization of the union office, thus far only from the museum’s contemporary ting art through the generations. tween the two.” As the first such of the closing of the Rose sparked union Director of Community collection to overcome its recent Not surprisingly, the poet who committee in 50 years, its findings controversy within the Brandeis Advocacy Andy Hogan ’11 has financial losses. has worked toward the greater revealed the stunning absence of community, and that in order to signed up to run for President. The symposium, entitled “Pre- democratization of his art used contemporary art in the school’s regain the community’s trust, the serving Trust: Art and the Art a line from Keats to explain the administration needs to “engage For photos of the State of the Museum amidst Financial Crisis” process of culture as a unifying See ROSE SYMPOSIUM, p. 11 the arts.” Union go to www.thehoot.net Baseball rookies Company sings AUDIO @ THEHOOT.NET IN THIS pull off a win relationship woes OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Unique frozen yogurt at Berryline in Cambridge THE Hoot REport: AIG and printing new money ISSUE: Sports, page 6 Diverse City, page 8 2 The Hoot March 20, 2009 NEWS Rosenbauer speaks about using Water bottle reduction a priority soccer for female empowerment BY JAKE YARMUS start to talk about the core values again after five month lull Staff that A GANAR stresses – team- BY ROBIN LICHTENSTEIN work, communication, focus on Staff After a week watching her results, etc. – they are able to in- host brother and his friends play ternalize those concepts and then translate them into the workplace The sale of bottled water in the soccer every afternoon while and their personal lives.” Usdan Café and Boulevard will in Equador last spring, Brooke Rosenbauer also saw a change be stopped, according to Students Rosenbauer ‘09 finally asked to in the gender dynamic. Though for Environmental Action (SEA) play. some girls didn’t want to partici- President Matt Schmidt ’11, as Ignoring his laughs, Rosenbau- pate at first, times are changing. part of the campus-wide initiative er started to juggle the ball with With more female interest, more to reduce the university’s depen- her friend Sarah. Her brother was leagues are starting up, and more dence on bottled water, which be- in shock. girls are participating in pickup gan last spring. “He said, ‘I thought girls only games. A GANAR has helped This announcement comes played with dolls,’” she explained by encouraging girls and boys to after a five month long lull in at her presentation for the Jane’s play soccer together, something bottled-water related activity, as Travel Grant, “From the street Rosenbauer supports. campus administrators have be- to the field: soccer and youth “You can’t empower girls in a come more focused on the finan- empowerment in Ecuador.” “We vacuum,” she said, adding that in cial crisis and the Rose.