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Emergency

Dissertat ionDar ing

Research fromtheOutset

AnEducat ion inAct ivism:Teaching andLearningabout Socia l Change onthe Road

September 1 1

The Innermost Parts

Development Matters

Facu lty Notes

Books andRecordings

Alumni

Expert medi ca l a id from a s tuden trun medi ca l corpsby C liffHaup tman

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Unique scholarship fromthe country’s bes t Ameri canhis tory gradua te departmentby S teve Anable

Abundant opportuni t iesfor undergradua tes in the labsof renowned s c ient i s t sbyMarjorie Lyon

Innova t ive ins truc t ion on

an inters ta te bus tripby David C unningham

Financ ial High l ights 2000-01

C lass Notes

— Audrey Griffin

—lonah E . Kaplan'

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Days a fter the terror a t tacks,I flew from Burl ington,

Vermont, my adoptedhome,t o N ew York C i ty, whereI spent my firs t 35 years .Al though a bi t scared to fly,especia l ly wi th my wi fe andtwo sma l l chi ldren, I nevermiss Rosh Hashanah wi thmy parents anddidnot wantt o give terror even a sma l lvic tory.

of the a t tacks onMus l imsand S ikhs in the Uni tedS ta tes . He to ld stories ofMoroccan Jews ; I of beinga Jew visi t ingMorocco . Iaskedhim i f he fel t worriedabout being an Arab inAmerica . N ot in N ew YorkC i ty, he sa id. His bro therin Sea t t lewasworried, butN ew York is used t odivers i ty. At the end of

the ride,I sa idgoodbye t o

the driver, feel ing fortuna tet o be in a ci ty inwhi chdivers i ty trumps terror, evenfresh

,immedia te terror.

escaped to the suburbs , mineand o thers di dn’t . Thosewho s tayedbehindwerefacedwi th a ci ty tha t wasimpo ss ibly vio lent but hadan unexpla inable hope aswel l . Thosewho stayedwere driven by a stubbornoptimi sm

,somet imes

mi sp laced,tha t we could a ll

somehow l ive together. N ew

York was,and continues

t o be theworld’s grea tes texperiment in communa ll iving.

C lose to Home

ent ire Brandei s communi tymourns their loss :

because the terrori s ts havea t ta cked N ew York ’s dreamof l iving together in peace .

My N ew York was a ci tyinwhi chmy b lack kara teteacher would cha t inMandarin to C hinesedel ivery men. It was a ci tyin whi ch my bes t friend, ablack Jama ican, and I couldwa t ch a pi ck -up ba sketba l lgame onWes t 4 th S treetinvo lving nine blacks andone Orthodox Jew. It wasa city inwhi ch everyonemingled together: art is ts,Brazi l ians, bankers, I ta l ians,doctors

,Puerto Ricans

,

engineers, Madonna ,Indi ans

,cons truction

workers . One ofmy grea tes tloves has a lways beenwa l king down N ew Yorkstreets

,wrapped in a throng

of people from a ll over theworld.

It wou ldbe poeti c t o saytha t everyone l ived togetherunder the shadow of the

WorldTrade C enter, but thi sis not true . The ci ty i s sovas t tha t the Twin Towerswere nevermore than a tinypart of i t . The terrori s ts,in destroying them, did far

less and far more than theyimagined. Far less becausethose b ig, dour bui ldingswere shel l s andwi l l berebui l t

,ei ther there or

el sewhere; farmore becauseof the killed, but a lso

Duringmy trip to the ci ty,I lost my wa l let . Was i t onthe street ?Was I the vict imof a pickpocket ? If I left i tin the taxi

,I to ldmy wi fe,

the driver would return i t .The wa l let rea l ly wasn’t abig dea l anyway, especia l lyin the fa ce of a ci ty grievingfor I went t o theloca l precinct to report thelos t wa l let andsaw po l i ceofficers hunched over desks,reading newspapers . Theyall looked tired. Whi le fil ingmy report, a po l i cewoman

spoke ma t t er~of-fac t ly abou ther 1 2-hour days . She los ttwo cous ins in the TradeC enter. La ter tha t night asa subway we were takinginto Brooklyn crossed theManha t tan bridge, wepeered into the bomb s i te.

Il lumina tedby rescue lights,the b lack smoke s t i l lpluming out of the rubblelooked an iridescent andghos t ly gray. Aga inst thenorma l ly twinkling N ewYork skyl ine, the bui ldings

around the rubble wereblack s i lhouet tes . Andunderi t all weremore thanlos t . Lost fromAmeri ca,but a l so lost from Bri ta inandGermany

,Israel and

Egyp t, India and Pakis tan,

Iran and Iraq . The scenesa id something terrib le andspecia l abou t N ew Yorki tself .

The essence of N ew Yorkis an experiment in get t inga long wi th o thers , regardlessof race, creed, or co lor. True

,

people haven’t a lways beenk ind t o each o ther

,t errible

inequi ties exi s t, and theci ty’s civili ty i s o ften fragi leand tenuous . At t imes thetriba l i sm seems to crowdou t everything good in theci ty: the black mobs inC rownHeights , the whi temobs in HowardBeach . But

,

increasingly, N ew Yorkerswere beginning to reco i lfrom such events and theci ty’s tempes ts hadbegun tosubside. By the end of the

1 990 3,the ci ty hadbecome

much sa fer andhad cut i tsmurder ra te by two - thirds .Every day, N ew Yorkers hurlthrough the subway tunnelsa long wi th representa t ivesofmore than 10 0 countries ;the vas t ma jori ty ge t to theirdest ina tions unsca thed.

Wha t the terrori s ts wi l lnever know i s how beaut i fuli t is t o ri se above triba l i sm.

To be a C zech in a Turkishrestaurant . To be a Korean

who da tes an Iri shman. To

be a black who loves yoga .

To be an Arab who lovesbagels andKa fka . To lookout from theWorldTradeC enter’s observa tion deckandsee in one of the grea tes tci ties in the world, an armyof people trying their bes t tosee each o ther for who theyare, no t where they’

re from.

N o t tha t where we’

re fromi s unimportant . N ewYorkers have all escapedfrom somewhere. One of

my grandfa thers escapedfrom the C ossacks . Anotherescaped from a Po l i sh shtet l

,

and then from the N azi s .Whether i t ’s the AfricanAmeri can who fled theSouth in the 1920 5 , or theHa i t ian fleeing poverty inthe 1 980 5 , they came andthey cont inue t o come . Theycome from Russ ia for theextra glasnos t of Brooklyn .

They come from Oklahomat o be gay in C hel sea . Theycome as outcasts from

sma l l towns aroundthe world t o reinventthemselves in the Big Town.

C an the terroris ts blas t awayN ew York ’s fragi le trus tandhumani sm? Wi l l webe a society of roadblocksand securi ty checks andpreconceivedno tions ? Idon

’t know.

Wha t I do know is tha tthe cab dr iver showed upa t my parents ’ bui ldingwi thmy wa l let . Unclear aboutmy address, he had combedthe neighborhood a skingdoormen i f they recognizedme . TheMusl imMoroccanhad found a C hri s t ianDomini can who recognizedthe Jewi sh Ameri can. But

tha t night we were jus t plainN ew Yorkers .

— David T. Z . Mindi ch’

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A N ew Yorker unt i l 1 996,

DavidT. Z . M indich i sthe cha ir of the journa l ismdepartment a t SaintM ichael ’s C o l lege, Vermont,and i s the au thor of lust theFa cts: How “ Objec tivi ty "

C ame to Define Ameri canJourna l ism. His arti cleshave appeared in the Wa llS treet Journal, N ew YorkMagazine, the C hrist ianScienceMoni tor, andel sewhere . He visi ts N ewYork C i ty as o ften ashe can.

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Got Vi taminE?

Milkwit h Added Vit amin EIs a Po t ent Ant ioxidantDrink, Resea rchers Find

— C ristin C arr

K.C . Hayes and D anie l Perlman

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The C lass of 2005

A Report from t he Off ic eof Admissions

The C lass of 2005 wasselected from the seventhrecord admi ss ions poo l inthe past eight years, saysSenior Vice Pres ident forS tudents and Enro l lmentJean Eddy.

“We admi t tedpercent of those who

applied, the lowes tacceptance ra te in 3 0 years .M indful of the wonderfulbut qui te large cla ss tha tentered Brandei s in the fa l lof 20 00

,we wi shed t o

recrui t a sma l ler firs t yearclass . ”

Seven hundred forty- threefirst -year students arrivedoncampus for orienta t ion onAugust 26 . They came from3 7 s ta tes and25 foreigncountries . S ta tes sending themos t s tudents to Brandeisare N ew York, C a l i fornia ,Massachuset ts

,N ew Jersey,

and C onnect i cut . Forty - fourtransfer s tudents enro l led,wi th an average GPA of

Abou t a quarter of the C lassof 200 5 enro l ledunder theearly decis ion plan. One

hundred eight were s tudentsof co lor.

Overa ll qua l i ty indica torshave increased. ThemedianSAT score for thi s class was1 33 0

,a rise of 1 0 point s over

las t year’s s tudents . S ixty

four percent of thi s classhas an SAT score of 13 0 0or bet ter

,as compared to 59

percent of las t year’s firstyear students . The meanSAT score rose by 20 po intsto 1 332. S ixty-five percent ofthe class was in the t op 1 0percent of their high schoo lclass

,and 89 percent were

in the top 20 percent— bothincrea ses over la s t year.

But first -year s tudents aremore than scores andsta t is t ics, they are s toriesof young and a lreadyimpress ive l ives

,including:

A young woman who

capta inedher na tiona l lyranked cheerleading team,

who was elected as arepresenta tive to her dis trictschool board and tutored ina bi l ingua l reading andma thprogram. As a faci l i ta torfor The Body Posi tive

,a

program to prevent ea t ingdi sorders

, she was chosento represent the organiza t iononABC -TV

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An actor fromVermontwhose drama group brought

”N a t iona l Schoo l ofDi s t inction in theArtshonors t o hishigh schoo l .He performed a t Sco t land’sEdinburgh Thea tre Fes t iva land a t the Kennedy C enterfor the Performing Arts inWashington,

DC ,andwas

a ccepted a t N eXTech, thena tiona l youth techno logyleadership summi t in Texas .In his ” spare t ime,” heplays the clarinet

,skis

, and

produces his ownmaplesyrup .

A young woman whoseessay for the JapaneseGloba l Wri ting C ontest (fors tudent s who s tudy outs ideof Japan) won first prizeandwas publ ished in a

textbook used in a ll pub l i celementary schoo l s in Japan.

She ho lds a Firs t DegreeBla ck Bel t in Sho to-kan

Kara te,tra ining three t imes

weekly, was a member ofher high schoo l ’s varsi tygo l f team,

andhas playedcla ss ica l piano for 13 years .

Amus ician and futurecomposer who traveledbetween hisna tive Panamaand N ew York C i ty tostudy a t The Jul l iard Schoo l .Beginning vio l in lessons a tage 5 , he became, a t age8 , the younges t so lo is t t oplay wi th the PanamaSymphoni c Orchestra . He

taught himsel f the gui taras a teenager, then begancomposingmus ic andplaying in a rock band as i t syounges t member.

AWien Interna tiona lScho lar from C anada whohas receivednumerousawa rds for her poetry, whichhasbeen publ i shedna tionally and internat iona lly,culmina t ing in the

publ i ca tion of her firs t book,

Silver Lining, in 1 999 . She

was invitedby TheTo lerance Inst i tute to workin Israel, where shedeveloped programs forIsrael i educa tors andyouth .

She i s a lso a regularco lumni s t for the C anadianJewish N ews.

An aspiring broadcas tjourna l i s t who was selectedby theDemocra t i c N a t iona lC ommi t tee as one of 1 0youth print reporters tocover the 200 0 Democra ti cN a t iona l C onvention. He

worked as a product ionassis tant on severa l showsa t KC RW Publ i c Radio , and

vo lunteered for a LosAngeles ci ty counci lman. He

served as edi tor in chief ofhishigh schoo l newspaperand as capta in of the varsi tytenni s team .

A young as tronomer who

won a s i lvermeda l a t theS iemens Wes tinghouseScience andTechno logyC ompet i t ion for herresearch uti l izing a s tarsys tem t o tra ce theevo lution of the so larsys tem. She was a

semifina list in Intel ’sScience Ta lent Search wi thher pro ject on the l ifeanddea th of binary stars,andhelped crea te anas tronomy l ibrary a tB iosphere 2 in Arizona .

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Development H igh l ightsF isca l Year 2000-0 1

Dear Alumni and Friends ,

I am delighted to reporttha t the support of ourloya l a lumni anddedica tedfriends continued unaba tedin fisca l ’0 1 . We were ableto ra ise a tota l ofmore than$6 1 mi l l ion for the secondyear in a row. Alumni

,

friends,parents

,Trus tees

,

Universi ty facul ty,corpora t ions, founda t ions,andmembers of theN a t iona l Women

'sC ommi t tee all played a keyro le in thi s accomplishment .

Most important ly, thisgiving trendbodes wel l forBrandeis ’s fu ture . For

examp le,from 1 996 to 200 1 ,

a lumni giving hasmorethan doubled

,reaching an

all- time high in 200 1 .

Giving from founda tions

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and corpora t ions has a l soreached a new peak

, growingto nearly $ 1 7 mi l l ion. Thisdemons tra tes a recogni t ionon the part of corpora t ionsand founda t ions of theacademi c excel lence ofBrandeis ’s teaching andresearch .

Our highes t priori ty asan ins ti tut ion i s therecrui tment and retent ion oftop

-cal iber facul ty and thebest andbrightes t s tudents .Our commi tment t o thispriori ty is il lus tra tedbyour es tabl ishing five newendowed facul ty cha irs andthe ra is ing of significantfunds for endowedscho larships during fisca l ’0 1 .

We are proceeding towardthe conclusion of the

”nucleus pha se”

of our

comprehens ive fund-ra is ingcampa ign . Our plan is t opub l ic ly announce thi scampa ign next fa l l . We are

encouragedby theleadership gi fts we havera i sed thus far, andweare confident of our abi l i ty

Co rpo ra t ions

Fi sca l ’02 wi l l be awa tershed year for BrandeisUniversi ty. For the firs tt ime in the Univers i ty’shi s tory we wi l l celebra te a5oth Reunion. Thanks t othe opening of the Lo i sFos terWing on the Ro seAr t Museum

,the Rose can

now appropria tely di sp layi ts magn ificent permanentco l lect ion of contemporaryart . In addi t ion

,the entire

Brandei s communi ty iseagerly looking forward tothe opening next fa l l of thenew

,sta te-of- the-art C arl

andRuth Shapiro C ampusC enter. I t is truly awonderful time to be part ofthe Brandei s fami ly .

We are bui lding the Brandei sof the 21 5 t century .

ensuring tha t Brandei s cancont inue t o send out intothe worldeduca tedgradua tes commi t ted t osocia l just i ce

,human rights,

and t o making our worlda bet ter place . I t is yourcontinuedgenerous supporttha t makes thi s a ll poss ible.

Thank you for yourongo ing commi tment t oBrandeis ’s future.

S incerely,

N ancy WinshipSenior Vi ce Pres identIns ti tut iona l Advancement

Genea logy byProcess of E l iminat ion

B rande isDuo Trave ls t oKenya t o He lp Resea rchers

’

S ave t he Elephant s’

Reed reca l l s the mightygiant : ”

From the dexterous’finger

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a t the t ip of the

— Audrey Griffin

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FromWh i te HousetoOur House

C onsumma t e C lint on

InsiderDraws C rowd forC ourse on Rea lWest Wing

Even before she hadut tereda s ingle word in herma idenlecture a t Brandei s

,Ann

P. Lewi s,a former a ide

t o Pres ident Bi l l C l inton,

genera tedwha t l ikely i s oneof themo s t intense preenro l lment rushes in theUniversi ty’s his tory .

Andwhy no t ? Po l i t ics 1 02bseemingly has a ll the rightingredients , including aca tchy name— The Rea lWes t Wing: At Work in theWhi te House— a compel l ingreading l i s t, a few specia lgues ts , and a dozenst imula ting c lass topics .

John Lisman

Mechanisms of Memo ry

Swit ch Unra ve led byBrandeis S c ient ist s

Scient is ts a t Brandeis havemoved a step closer t ounravel ing one o f the mos tfundamenta l mysteries ofthe human bra in — the

mo lecular basis of memory.

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The course’s rea lcenterpiece, however, i sLewi s hersel f, aconsumma teD.C . insiderwhose long anddi s t inguished careermos trecent ly hadher in theC l intonWhi te House andsomet imes front and centerin the media supernovassurrounding i ts nowinfamous scanda ls .

Speaking from her homeprior to the s tart of classeson August 3 0 , Lewisout l inedher expecta t ions forthe course anddi s cussedher experiences asdirectorof communi ca t ions for andcounselor t o Pres identC l inton. Lewis a l socomparedher impress ions ofworking in theWhi te Houset o theWest Wing’s depict ionin a popular, prime- t imenetwork television show of

the same name.

Memorab le F ind

In the August 2nd i ssue ofthe journal N euron,

Brandei sscientis ts John L isman,professor of bio logy andthe Volen N a t iona l C enterfor C omplex Systems, andAna to l M . Zhabot insky,adjunct professor ofchemistry, unvei led a newmodel of themas ter swi tchrespons ible for s toringmemory.

Through computersimu la t ions, Li sman and

Zhabo t insky pinpointed thebiochemi ca l intera ct ions

Lewis sa idher course ispart persona l experience,part his torica l backgroundabou t the presidency, wi themphasis on how an

admini s tra tion sets i tsagenda and theWh i teHouse’s interplay wi th themedia . A principa l goa l i sto unders tandhow po l i t icshas changed in the pas t 50years, according t o Lewis,who

,as the Fred andR i ta

Ri chmanDis tingui shedVis i ting Professor a tBrandei s

,fo llows in the

foo ts teps of former TexasGovernor Ann Richards

,

former N ew York Mayor

EdwardKoch,and Pu l i tzer

Prize-winning Boston Globeco lumnis t David Shribman .

Li ke her predecessors,Lew is

wi l l spend one semes tertea ching in tha t capa city .

Lewis departed the C l intonWhi te House to work onHi l lary C l inton’s N ew YorkSena te campa ign . She is st i l lworking for Sena tor C l inton,

helping her reach out tocons t i tuents and bui ld abase via thousands of ema i lmessages, ”most ly to N ewYorkers . ” Does Sena torC l inton have bigger plans ?She i s go ing to make a grea tsena tor, Lewis responds .

As forworking in theWhi teHouse

,next t o the whi te

hot media glare, Lewi s sa idi t is true tha t “every thing i sin the spo tl ight . ”

The (administ ra t ivei agendakeeps changing and thepressure is constant

,

”she

sa id.

Lewi s o ffered pluses andminuses about N BC ’

sWestWing . For ins tance: "Thephysi ca l layout i s not rea l .I t is t oo large and everyone

between two key enzymestha t form the molecularmemory swi tch . Theseenzymes— C aC a lmodu l in dependentpro tein kinase II (C aMKII)and phospha tase- l — are

signa l ing enzymes loca tedin synapses . They have thepower t o regula te theactivi ty of o ther pro teinstha t contro l synaptics trength, and thereby encodememory. Li sman and

Zhabo t insky demonstra tehow the enzymes are lockedinto a structure ca l led apos tsynaptic dens i ty, a tinyspace where an intri cat e

Jus t as understandingD‘

N A

revolu t ionizedbio logy andled to advancements in thetrea tment of geneti cdi seases

,the Brandei s

scienti s ts bel ieve unlockingthemolecular basis ofmemory wi l l have a simi larimpact on unders tandingnorma l bra in funct ion and

the trea tment ofmemorydiseases .

has a window.

”She sa id i t is

inaccura te t o show a coupleof people wa l king abrea st,cha t t ing breezi ly throughthe corridors . The workareas andba lls aremorefreneti c and crowded, andpeople constant ly moveabout .

She sa id the show’scharacters do convey a senseofwha t i t ’s l i ke working a tthe heart ofDC . po l i t i cs ."You do get a lo t of smart,

Research A lert

An Est ima t ed One MillionOlderWomenWill LoseHea lt h C overage Under

Proposed Medic a re

Reform, N ew S t udyRevea ls

An es t ima ted one mi l l iono lder womenwi l l bewi thout vi ta l hea l th carecoverage i f a proposa l t oreformMedi care is passed,a ccording t o a new s tudyrelea sed by the N a tiona lC enter onWomen and

Aging (N CWAJa t The Hel lerSchoo l for Socia l Pol icy andManagement .

The proposed change, whi chwould increase the age ofel igibi l i ty forMedicare from65 t o 67 years of age, ignoresthe hea l th care needs ofour na tion’s vulnerable o lderwomen

,according t o the

research.

Ann Lewis andJ ehuda Reinha rz, Ph .D.

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hard-working people whoget up every day and t ry todo the bes t they can. And

she sa id the show, even wi thi ts ina ccuracies

, probably i sthe bes t thus far in TV or

film a t depic t ing wha t i t i slike t o ac tua l ly work in theWhi te House .

Lewis ’s work in po l i ti csspans decades . She was aSpecia l ass is tant t o MayorKevinWhi te of Bos ton from1968 t o 1 975 . She has

worked on a number of

congressiona l campa ignsandwas chief of sta ff for two

According t o Phyl l i sMutschler

,the principa l

inves tiga tor of the s tudyandexecu t ive director ofthe N GWA

,the hardes t hi t

wouldbe those no t yetel igible who wouldno t haveaccess t o any o ther form of

hea l th care coverage.

The s tudy ana lyzed ana t iona l ly representa tivesample ofwomen betweenthe ages of 55 t o 64 yearsof age . Arnaa Al con,

associa te director of theN CWA, and El len Li ss,research associa te a t theN CWA, workedwi thMutschler in the da taana lyses, report wri ting, anddes ign of the s tudy. Da tataken from theMa tureWomen C ohort of theN a tiona l Longi tudina lSurveys of LaborMarketExperience wasused todetermine the factorsinfluencing hea l th carecoverage and the ri sksassocia tedwi th ra i sing theage of el igibi l i ty.

U .S . representa t ives . Shewas an election ana lyst forWHDH-TV

,Boston

,and in

1 988 -89 she was na tiona la ffa irs columnis t forMs.

Magaz ine .

She wasmos t recent ly apubl i c po l icy fel low a t the

Univers i ty of Pennsylvania ’sAnnenberg Schoo l ofC ommuni ca t ions .

Prior t o Medi care el igibi l i ty,mos t women rely onmarriage or employment forhea l th care coverage . The

s tudy found tha t amongthe women ages65 to 6 7 who entered theMedi care program from1 992 t o 1 995 , over 80percent were no t working( lack emp loyer-providedcoverage ) and3 0 percentwere no t married (unableto be covered as a spouse ) .Increasing the age ofMedicare el igibi l i ty woulddeny coverage t o thesewomen,

jeopardiz ing theiraccess t o care.

Indeed,higher cos ts of

commercia l coverage, higherdivorce ra tes , and lowerra tes of workforceparti cipa tion po int towardmore l imi ted access foro lderwomen

,

” saysMutschler.

“There are few

Of course,the publ i c got

to know her through hermedia appearances on beha l fof C l inton

,to whom she

rema ins s teadfas t ly loya l .”People a lways knew tha t hewas out there working ontheir beha lf

,she sa id.

” I amproud of wha t we did.

Dennis N ea lon

reasons t o anti c ipa tesignificant changes tha twou ld improve theiropportuni ties to accesshea l th insurance coverage.

According t o the study,Medicare wi l l becomeincrea s ingly important t owomen as tradi tiona l fami lypa t terns decl ine, as fewermen andwomenwork a fterage 65 , and as the cost ofhea l th care and commercia lcoverage rapidly esca la tes .

The research was funded bya grant from the Jay and

Rose Phi l l ips Founda t ion.

An execut ive summary ofthe s tudy, ” I f I C an Jus tMake I t Tothe Impact onWomen of

Increas ing the El igibi l i tyAge forMedicare, i sava i lable a t :

na t iona l/shelf.html .

— C ristin C arr


Ford Focus

C hris Ford N amed Int erimMen

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s Basket b a l l C oa c h

St i ll was the ninth basketba l lcoach in Brandeis his tory .

Chris Fo rd


B ruce L. Goode Awa rded

Prest ig ious Pew S c ho la rin B iomedic a l S c ienc e

Bruce L . Goode, assi s tantpro fessor of bio logy andthe Rosenst iel Bas ic Medi ca lSciences Research C enter

,

was awarded the 20 0 1 Pew

Scho lar in B iomedi ca lScience by the PewC hari table Trus ts .

The prest igious awards aregranted t o 20 of Ameri ca ’smos t promis ing biomedi ca lresearchers t o encouragescho larly innova tion and t o

help advance research in the

President Ichuda ReinharzwelcomedBoston authorDanzy Senna to the ninthHelen andPhilip BrecherN ew Student Forum on

August 29 a t SpingoldThea ter.Reinharz commented tha tSenna

’s work was chosenbecause i t dea lt with issuesof race

,social justice

,and

diversi ty— issues longrecognizedas important inthe li fe of the Universi ty.

Senna congra tula ted the firstyear students as they begantheir co l lege careers, thefirs t ini t ia l rea l l i fe s tepin a cont inuing journey oflearning and transforma tion.

She spoke of her own longstruggle— persona l andl i terary— t o findher own

ident i ty, 3 process tha tinspiredhermuch’

pra ised

first novel , C aucasia , whichthe C lass of 2005 had readover the summer.

biomedica l s ciences . Theawards support scho lars asthey es tabl i sh their researchin areas ranging from AIDSto cancer to chi ldhoodinfect ious di sea ses , anddi seases a ffect ing the elderly .

Goode’s research focuses on

a ct in cytoskeletondynami cs , fi lamentousarrays tha t lie benea th theplasma membrane in cel lsand form an interconnectednetwork throughout the cel l .

In our lab we are di ssect inga ct inmachines using anapproach s imi lar t ooverhaul ing a c ar engine,

She described the Bos tonof her childhoodduring theear ly sevent ies as a t ime

”before Benet toncommercia ls

,in a ci ty her

mo ther referred to as “the

deep N orth .

”Born t o a fa ther

who consideredhimselfblack and t o a whi temother

,

Senna’s biracia l background

made her yearn to be one

race or the other,black or

white, to be “rea l

,she put

i t . She envied the idealizedmiddle-class exi s tence shesaw broadcas t oncontemporary televisionshows such asThe BradyBunch . It seemed somehowsuperior to her bohemiancircumstances wi th anactivist fa ther and a “hippiemother

,in a house wi th l ’dog

ha ir stuck to everything.

At abou t age 12, she begancommi t ting her fantas iesabou t middle-class l i fe topaper

,but her perfect

chara cters , wi th their

s ta tedGoode . We i so la teanddi smantle the engine,ident ify the parts and theirphys ica l contacts andrebui ld the engine frompurifiedparts .

By exploring the underlyingmechani sms ofcommuni ca tion

,transport

,

ando ther essentia l cel lfunction, Goode’s lab wi l l beable to bet ter understand cel lmovement andhow i t rela test o specific disease sta tes .

Thi s year, nomina tions frommore than 1 20 ins ti tutionswere received. The scholarswere chosen by a

recipes and furni turegleamingwi th Pledgemade for b land fiction. In

co l lege, she continuedwri t ing, but about flawed,rea l is t ic chara cters,di s covering tha t the

” contradi ct ions tha t makeyou human

”are the very

things tha t makel i tera ture come a l ive .

C aucasi a i s the s tory ofB irdie

,a mixed-race Boston

girl whose circumstancesare an

”exaggera t ion”

of the

au thor’s own. Senna spokeof two kinds of identi t iesthose we are given and thosewe choose . Given ident i t iesinclude ra ce, class, fami ly,and so on. Senna, however,bel ieves chosen ident i t iesare the more important,ci t ing co l lege as oneimportant cho i ce.

First -year students eagerlyquest ioned Senna aboutcharacters ’ mot ives

,secrets

,

and po l i tics in C aucasia .

Theywonderedabout a

1 6 -member na t iona ladvisory commi t teeappointedby the board ofdirectors of The PewC hari table Trus ts andcha iredbyDr. Tors ten N .

Wiesel,pres ident emeri tus

of Rockefel ler Univers i tyand a 198 1 N obel laurea te.

The Pew C hari tab le Trusts,

a na t ional phi lanthropyba sed in Phi ladelphia ,support nonprofi t activi tiesin the areas of conserva tionand the environment

,

cu l ture, educa t ion,hea l th

andhuman services, publ i c

po l i cy, and rel igion.

possible sequel (none isplanned) andwhether certa incharacters ’ choi ces wereselfish or immora l . Sennaspoke of the necessi ty ofa l lowing a book ’s charactersto define i ts plo t

,

emphas izing tha t an authorcan’t impose ”

poli tica l lycorrect” or ” incorrect” viewstha t wouldviola te charactersbel ievabi l i ty, complexity,limi ta tions, andhumani ty.

I

She caut ioned aga ins t beingdiverted into po l i t ics basedsolely on race, bel ieving racel ike gender i s a "socia l lyconstructed box.

”Do Ilet my body speak formeor Speak formysel f ?” sheasked.

She added,“My race i s

inspira t iona l,but my

phys ica l self is no t thewhole story. Everyone hassurpri ses . Be Open t o tha t .

—S teveAnable

1 3 Brande i s Review

B i rthday Boykan

Ma rt in BoykanTurns 70 !Brande is C e leb ra t esw it hC onc ert

The mus ic worldhas beencelebra t ing the 7othbirthday of di s t ingu ishedcomposerMart in Boykanwi th a series of concertsacross the country. On

N ovember 1 7, Brandei s heldi ts own event a t S losbergReci ta l Ha l l honoring thebeloved professor.

The Irving G . Fine Professorof C ompos i t ion, bet terknown asMarty

,is

cons idered a guru among

mus ic s tudents , a ccording t oEric C hasa low, professor ofcompos i t ion and cha ir ofthe music department . ”

He

knows more about class ica lmusi c than anyone I know,

adds fel low composerYehudi Wyner, theN aumberg Professor ofC ompos i tion.

Boykan began hisBrandei scareer a t a timewhen themus ic department was ra tedamong themos t prest igiousin the country . N otedcomposers such as IrvingFine, Arthur Berger, andHaro ld Shapero were here,aswere the wel l -knownmus icologi s ts Kenneth Levyand Pau l Bra inard

,a Bach

1 4 B randei s Review

Ma rt in Boykan

scho lar. Brandeis wasextremely hard t o get into,reca l l s Boykan . Andhe

ma inta ins the department t othi s day rema ins one of themos t dis tingu ished in thena t ion.

Boykan loves teaching. Overthe years he’

s gu ided andinspired severa l genera t ionsof students

,including wel l

known composers such as

S teveMackey ’

85,Peter

L ieberson ’

85 , Ross Bauer,MA .

’83 , PhD .

’

84 , and

MarjorieMerryman,

MF A.

’

76 , PhD .

’

8 1 .

"I rea l ly do enjoy i t , ” hesays . He sees i t as t imerewardingly spent, andnever a t the expense of hisart .

” If you ’

re no t wri ting apiece, you can’t blame i t onthe teaching. If i t ’s in you,

you shouldbe able to wri tei t .

”

Unt i l the 1 970 5,Boykanwas

a c tive as a piani s t, playingwi th the Bos ton SymphonyOrches tra

,andwi th so lo i s ts

such as Joseph S i lversteinand Jan de Gaetani . Hes tudied compos i t ion wi thWa l ter Pis ton

,Aaron

C opland, and PaulHindemi th

,andpiano wi th

Eduard S teuermann. In the

1 950 5 , a fter returning froma Fulbright Fel lowship inVienna

,he founded the

Brandei s contemporarymus ic series .

Boykan haswri t ten for awide variety of instrumenta lcombina tions including asymphony, four s tringquartet s, a concerto for large

ensemble, trios, duos, andso lo works

,and for voi ce

and piano aswel l o therinstruments . Hiswork iswidely performed. His

symphony was premieredby the Utah SymphonyOrchestra andhis chambermus ic has been presentedby a lmos t a ll of the currentnewmus ic ensemblesincluding the BostonSymphony C hamber Players,The N ew York N ewMus icEnsemble, Specu lumMusicae

,the League-ISCM

,

Earplay, Mus ica Viva, andC o l lage of N ew Mus ic .

Boyken has receivednumerous awards for hisworks

,including the

JeunesseMus ica les for hisS tring Quartet N o . 1 and

the League—ISC M award for

Elegy . Hismost recentrecording, Martin Boykan:

W ingd ing

Rose Art MuseumDrawsLa rge C rowd fo rOpeningo f N ew Lo is Fost erWing

El l sworth Kel ly was there .

So were James Rosenqu is tandAl Held. The art worldluminaries were among the

people who came tocelebra te the grand openingof The Rose Art Museum’snew Loi s FosterWing. The

occas ion a lso marked theRose’s 4oth anniversary andthe launching of a new

C i ty ofGold 6 ) O therWorks

,i s a presenta tion of

four chamber pieces,one

of whi ch was composed inco llabora t ionwi th hiswi fe

,

visua l artis t Susan Schwa lb .

Martin Boykan, more thanany o ther l iving composer,is able t o cra ft large-sca leworks wi th tremendouseconomy ofmeans— worksinwhi ch every note andgesture are essent ia l bo th inthe large and in the sma l l,wri tes Ross Bauer in thel iner no tes for C i ty of Gold.

The concert honoringBoykan was repea ted onN ovember 1 8 byDinosaurAnnex a t the First andSecond C hurch in Bos ton.

— Donna Desrochers

exhibi t ion, A DefiningGenera tion, Then and N ow:

1 96 1 and 200 1 .

To accommoda te the crowds,The Rose held i ts fest ivi tiesover a two -day period. On

September 29 , a black - t iega la was held in honorofHenry and Lo is Foster,whose generos i tymade thebui lding possible . Some

longtime Ro se supporterses t ima ted tha t the event

Spot l ight onVienna

A N ew Five-Yea rPro jec t for t he LydianS t ring Q ua rt et

was one of themos tsuccessful in theMuseum’shis tory.

A highl ight of Sunday’sfes tiv i t ies was a seminarwi th the art is ts modera ted

by Exhibi t ion C ocura tor andRose FoundingDirector SamHunter. The event wasstanding room only a t theHaro ldHassenfeldC onference C enter. Fami l ies,members of the Grea terBos ton art communi ty,friends of the Rose

,and

many newcomers arrivedt o take a look a t thema jes ti c new ga l lery, whi chi s elegantly s i ted behind theorigina l Museum bui lding .

Earl ier in the day, Hunterwas given an honorary

Do ctor of Humane Let ters .”1 was very touched, sa idHunter.


The Lyd ianS t ring Q ua rt et

Much of the art currentlyon display a t The Roseare pieces drawn from the

Museum's ho ldings . And” they are even s tronger thanI remembered, sa idHunter,who was invo lved in thea cquis i t ion of those earlypieces .



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Put sThisAlumnus B a ckin t he N ews

Asked about the influence ofhis years a t Brandeis on hiscareer

,Shapiro says :

But he hasnever run forpubl i c o fficenow.

His reason for running a ftera ll thi s t ime?

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Promo t ions t o Assoc ia t eProfessorw it hTenure


Showing H is Meta l

— Marj’

orie Lyon

Me l Bernst ein

2 0 B rande is Review

NewFacu lty

Arno ldBand Harva rdUnivers i ty ), JosephH. and

Bel le R . Braun Professor ofModernHebrew L i tera ture .

A renowned scho lar ofmodern Hebrew l i tera ture

,

Band i s an emeri tusprofessor a t the Univers i tyof C a l i fornia , LosAngeles .At Brandei s during the fa l lsemesters of ’

0 1 and’

02,he

wi l l tea ch aswel l as advisegradua te s tudents .

Jeffrey B lomst er Ya leUni versi ty ), Lecturer inAnthropo logy . Blomst er has

most recent ly taught a tMuhlenberg C o l lege. He has

pub l ished severa l reports onhis archaeo logica l researchin Oaxaca

,Mexico

,and

has secured support fromnumerous sources,includingMel lon and

Fulbright Grants .

Laarni Bu lanC olumbia Univers i ty ),Ass is tant Professor ofFinance . Bulan’s researchinteres ts include corpora tefinance, firm investment,capita l s tructure, rea loptions

,and ri sk and

vola t il i tymodel ing . She has

received fel lowships andscho larships from numeroussources , including LehmanBro thers andAT&T.

Ra fael C ampoHarvardUnivers i ty ), FannieHurs t Poet - in-Res idence . A

pract i t ioner of interna lmedi cine, C ampo i s a l so ana t iona l ly recognized poetandnonfic t ionwri ter aboutmedi c ine and thehumani ties . Hismos t recentbooks areDiva andThePoetry ofHea l ing : A

Doctor ’

s Educa tion inEmpa thy, Identi ty andDesire . He has been the

recipient of a GuggenheimFel lowship and the N a t iona lHi spanic Academy ofMediaArts and Sciences Annua lAchievement Award and isfrequent ly invited t o speakaround the country . At

Brandei s in the fa l l 20 0 1semes ter

,he taught a course

on L i tera ture andHea l ingand a poetry workshop .

Thomas C ushmanUnivers i ty of Virginia ),ZiskindVisi t ing Professorof Socio logy and InternetS tudies . An associa teprofessor a t Wel les leyC o l lege, C ushman hasreceived N a t iona l ScienceFounda t ion andAmeri canC ounci l of Learned Societ iesfunds for hiswork onsocio logy of cul ture and onSoviet /Russian society. He

i s the author of a book onrock mus ic in Russia . Springsemes ter he wi l l teachlnterroga ting the Internet :Socio logica l Perspect ives ona N ewMedium and

Socio logy of Propaganda .

Karla Davis-Sa lazarN orthern I l l inoi sUniversi ty), Lecturer inAnthropo logy. A doctora lcandida te

,Davis -Sa laza r

wi l l jo in Brandeis a ftercomplet ing a fel lowshipres idency a t theDumbartonOaks C enter inWashington,

DC . Her extensivefieldwork includes overseven seasons of excava tiona t a s ignificant Mayan si te .

HerHarvarddisserta t ion,

supported in part by theFord Founda t ion

,focuses on

the rela t ionship betweensociopol i tica l complexity,wa ter supplymanagement,and a ssocia ted religiousri tua l s and symbo l i sm.

Amanda Ewington (M A .,

Univers i ty of C hi cago ),Lecturer in Russ ianLi tera ture . A PhD .

candida te and the winner ofa Whi ting Fel lowship in theHumani t ies and a FulbrightHays award, Ewingtontea ches N ineteenth-C enturyRuss ian Li tera ture andWomen in RussianLi tera ture .

Eduardo FeblesBrown Univers i ty ), Lecturerin French and Spani sh. A

former Fulbright Scho lar,Febles has a specia l interestin computer-ass is tedlanguage learning andsecond language acq uis i tion.

Ulri ch Geni ckScripps Research Ins ti tu te ),Ass is tant Professor ofBiochemi s try. Jo iningBrandei s fo l lowing twopos tdoctora l years a t theSa lk Ins t i tute for Bio logi ca lS tudies , Genick is in theforefront of X-ray t imeresolved crysta l lography,having contributed t o thetechni ca l development andexperimenta l des ign of an

important area of s tructura lbio logy .

Anne GershensonUniversi ty ofM i chigan),Ass is tant Professor ofB iophys ica l C hemi s try.

Gershenson’

s pos tdoctora lresearch a t the C a l i forniaInst i tute ofTechno logyfocused on us ing randommutagenes is and screeningto thermost abi lize es terases .Her research plans combinedirected evolu t ion wi tht ime-reso lvedoptica l

methods for the s tudy ofpro tein fo lding andconforma t ion .

Jody Gi t t ellMa ssachuset ts Ins ti tute ofTechnology ), Assis tantPro fessor in theManagement Program a t

The Hel ler Gradua te Schoo lfor Socia l Pol i cy andManagement . Gi t t ell joinsBrandeis a fter teaching avariety of courses as anass is tant pro fessor ofbusiness admini s tra tion a t

the HarvardBus iness Schoo l .She has received fundingfrom the Al fred P. S loanFounda tion aswel l as aN a tiona l Research C ounci lFel lowship for her researchon s tra tegi c human

resources and organiza tiondes ign, group process , andleadership . She i spart i cularly interes ted inhow coordina t ion a ffectsqua l i ty and efficiencyperformance intime-constra ined serviceset t ings , such as hea l thcareand the a irl ine indus try.

Derek Isaacowi t zUniversi ty of Pennsylvania ),Ass is tant Professor ofPsycho logy. Isaacowi t z has

been the recipient of aN a tiona l ScienceFounda tion Gradua teResearch Fel lowship . He has

mos t recently been honoredby his select ion to presentan invi ted address a t theupcoming meet ing of theSociety for the S tudy ofHumanDevelopment . Hisresearch interes ts includethe predi c t ion and

mea surement of posi t iveandnega tive a ffect in o ld

age, optimism and

depress ion in o lder adul ts,

and l i fe-span development ofHo locaust ando ther traumasurvivors .


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Dan PerlmanHarvardUniversi ty ),Lecturer in Environmenta lStudies . A broadly tra inedbio logi s t, Perlman’sinteres ts include anima lbehavior

,evo lut ion, and

scientific and socia lenvironmental i ssues . He iscurrent ly wri t ing an eco logytext for undergradua te nonsciencema jors . At Ha rvardhe received the Phi BetaKappa Prize for Excel lencein Teaching.

N ei l Printz C i tyUnivers i ty of N ew York ),Henry Luce Vi s i t ing Scho larin American Art . Printz hasheld posi t ions as a cura tor,an edi tor, and an a ssis tantpro fessor. At Brandei s t owork wi th the Rose ArtMuseum, he a l so teaches acourse on AndyWarho l .

Eri c Ri ceC o lumbia Uni vers i ty),Ass is tant Professor inMus ic(non tenure—track ) . Ri cespecia l izes in hi s tori ca lmus ico logy andhaspubl i shed severa l art icles onmus ic of theMiddle AgesandEarlyModern Period.

Hisdi sserta tion,Mus ic

andRi tua l in the C o l legia teC hurch of S t . Mary in

Aachen,13 00 reflec ts

his interes ts in early churchmusic as a scho lar and aperformer.

Paroma Sanya lUniversi ty of C a l i fornia ,Irvine ), Assi stant Pro fessorof Economi cs . Sanya l a l soho lds anMA . from the

Delhi Schoo l of Economics .

Her di sserta t ion focuses onresearch anddevelopmentandher fields ofconcentra tion are indus tria lorganiza t ion,

empiri ca lmi croeconomics

,applied

econometri cs, andenvironmenta l economi cs .As an intern a t theWorldBank

,she ana lyzed the

impa ct of gender on socia lC oopera t ion andwomen

’spo l i t ica l part icipa t ion. She

i s a l so specifica l ly in terestedin emergingmarkets tructure in the U S . electri cut il i ty indus try,priva tiza t ion and

deregu la t ion in developingcountries

,and trade and

environment .

M i chael SocolowGeorgetown Univers i ty),Ass is tant Professor ofAmeri can S tudies . Socolow’

s

field of research covers20 th-century U S . hi s tory,wi th an emphasi s on thesociocul tura l and po l i t ica ldevelopment ofma sscommuni ca tions inAmeri ca . Hisdi sserta tionfocuses on the techni ca l,pol i t i ca l, andbus inessnego t ia t ions tha t led t othe establ i shment of N BCand C BS radio . He a l sohas cons iderable experienceworking in broadcas tjourna l i sm, and offerscourses in the Journal i smProgram in addi t ion t o thosein the American studiesdepartment .

Harry TamvakisUnivers i ty of C hi cago ),Ass is tant Pro fessor o fMa thema t ics . Tamvakishasmost recent ly worked a tthe Ins t i tu t desHautesE tudes Sc ient ifiques, whi leho lding a N a t iona l ScienceFounda t ion pos tdoctora lresearch fel lowshi p . He has

been a lec turer a t theUniversi ty of Pennsylvaniaand the Univers i ty ofC hicago . His focus is oncomplex, a lgebra i c andari thmet i c geometry,including a part icularinteres t in Arakelov theoryand intersection theory .

Ramie TargoffUnivers i ty of C a l i fornia ,Berkeley ), Ass is tantProfessor of Engl i sh andAmerican L i tera ture . Targoff

comes to Brandei s fromYa le Univers i ty, where shehasbeen an ass is tantpro fessor, Specia l izing inpoetry, s ince 1996 . The

au thor of C ommon Pra yer:Models of Publi c Devo tionin Early Modern England,jus t out from the Univers i tyof C hi cago Press, she hasa lso publ i shed severa lart ic les on the poet GeorgeHerbert and on theperformance of prayer. She

has taught courses onShakespeare and theRena i ssance Lyri c aswel l asgenera l courses on poetry.

Eva Thorne

Massachuset ts Ins ti tute ofTechnology ), Ass is tantPro fessor of Po l i t i cs . Thornehas taugh t a t Tuf ts, Bos tonUnivers i ty, andN ortheas tern aswel l asMIT.

She was on leave during thefa l l term in order t o workon a Ford Founda t ion Grant .She specia l izes in La t inAmerican po l i t i cs

,

interna tiona l po l i t ica leconomy, andThirdWorlddevelopment and is workingon a manuscrip t

,Pro tes t

andAccoun tabi li ty : TheWorld B ank and the Pol i ti csof Safeguard Poli cy. Her

many awards includefel lowships from the

Ins t i tute for the S tudy ofWorld Po l i t i cs

,the Socia l

S cience Research C ounc i l,

the Inter-Ameri canFounda tion

,and the U S .

Department of Educa t ion.

Thorne hasbeen a

consul tant for theWorldC ommiss ion onDams inSouth Afri ca and the InterAmericanDevelopmentBank aswel l as the FordFounda t ion.

Jona than UnglaubC olumbia Univers i ty ),Assi stant Professor of FineArts . Unglaub i s on leave200 1 -02 on a pos tdoctora lfel lowship in the his tory ofart and the humani t ies fromthe Get ty Grant Program,

which wi l l support hisresearch on Poussin. He

has taught a t C olumbia andWa shington Universi t iesandhas received a Fulbrightpredoctora l grant aswel laso ther awards . His twobooks in progress arePoussin, Tasso, and the

Poeti cs of Pa int ing andAncient Pa inting andB aroq ue Poeti cs: AC onvergence in Poussin ’

s

La te Works .


I aminmy office inthe pub l i cations cottage on

campus, ta lk ing with a member ofmy staff,

whenher i r ises float up into her b row and

she kee ls Over l i ke a fe l led p ine.

by C liff Hauptman



Dur ing its 1 8-yea r existenc e, BEMCo

has responded tomore than c a lls

(more than 300 dur ing the e ight-month

academic year of 2000 -01 J, rang ing in

fromthe l ife-th reatening to the l ife-beg inning.

inausp icio us beg inning fo r BEMC o ,

but pro ba b ly fo rtuna t e fo r t he womanand her ba by.

La ter t ha t semester, BEMC o proveditswo rt h . Assess ing nea rly 5 0 pa t ient sa t an overcrowded concert in t hegym one nig ht , BEMC o s tret chedits exist ing reso urces to t he l imitbut est a b l ished it se l f unq uest iona b lyas a via b le and bene ficia l a ssetto t he campus . S oon it began

a t tra ct ing increa s ing numbers ofst udent vo luntee rs , t hus a llowing itto expand its budget , upg rade itseq uipment , and respond a t any hourof t he day o r night wit h imp ress ivespeed and effect ive p rocedures .

Today BEMC o comprises mo re t han 6 0a ct ive members , t ra ined EmergencyMedic a lTechnic ians ( EMTs) o rganizedinto a ca refully regula ted h iera rchyb a sed on leve ls of experience .

Typica l ly, duty crews consist of t hreemembers like t he ones who so

suddenly sprang up inmy o ffice whenIdia led 6 3 3 3 3 . Ea ch crew includesa p rima ry,” who ha s had extensi veo ff- campus experience eit he rwith a


vo lunteer o r pa id ambulanc e se rviceand is cons idered t he crew chief.The

prima ry drives to a ll ca l ls in t heBEMC o t ruck.The seconda ry "

has

had ex tens ive t ra ining , a lt hough lessthan t he prima ry , and is fami l ia rwit ha ll BEMC o pro to co ls . In t he event

t ha t a second, s imult aneous ca l l a rises ,t he seconda ry wi l l b rea k o ff from t he

first ca l l t o respond to t he second.

The”

tert ia ry is a new memberwhopa rticipa t es fully unt il he o r she isready fo r p romot ion to seconda ry.The

seco nda ry and tert ia ry respond to t hescene on foot , by persona l vehicle , o r

by campus po l ice cruiser i f one isava i la b le . Alt hough not usua lly pa rt oft he t hree-

person c rew, t here is a lsoa

” superviso r” who is a lways on dutyto respond to s imul taneous ca l ls (wit ht he seconda ry ) , a swe l l a s any ca l lo f a serious na ture . S upervisors a reprima ries wit h extens ive on-and off

campus experience and a re t ra ined tohandle cris is s it ua t ions .

This yea r, t here wi l l be twosuperviso rs , between five and 1 0prima ries, a bout 20 seconda ries , anda bout 3 0 tert ia ries . Dut ies run in24 -hour shift s , beg inning a t pm.

Given t he average number o f ca l ls , atert ia ry may go o n o ne ca ll permont h,

a seconda ry on two o r three permo nt h, and a prima ry on o ne o r two

pe rweek . One o f t he two superviso rsis on c a ll a ll t he t ime .

The BEMC o t ruck, which is a lwayson t he scene of a ca ll , is eq uippedwit h everyt hing an ambulance ca rries ,except a st ret cher. On ea ch ca l l , t hec rew a ssesses whet her t he pa t ientshould be t ranspo rt ed to one of t he

two ava i la b le t rea tment fa cil it ies: t heUniversity Hea lt h C enter on campus ,o r t he nea rby Dea conessWa lt hamHo spit a l . If t he pa t ient is a b le tobe t ranspo rted in t he BEMC o t ruckt ha t is , i f t he pa t ient does no t needt o be pla ced on a st ret cher o r beadministered oxygen— t he crew wi l ldecide on t he appropria te fa ci l ity and

drive t he pa t ient t here t hemselves .

Ot herwise , an ambulance wi l l beca l led, and one of t he BEMC o

superviso rs wi l l a ss ist .

Mo st pa t ient s c an be driven in t het ruck . Preva lent emergencies invo lvemi ld a st hma a t t a cks and a llerg icrea ct ions , twisted ankles , skinnedknees , b roken toes and fingers , spo rt sre la ted injuries , intoxica t ion, fa int ing ,

a nd dia bet ic emergencies and se izures .

Mo re severe ca ses — hea rt a t ta cks , afa ll down a fl ight of st a irs , severea st hma t ic and a lle rg ic rea ct ions , mo to r

vehicle a ccident s , anyone needingoxygen— req uire a c a ll fo r anambula nce by the BEMC o crew.

C urrent ly oversee ing much of t his isDavid Ba skin '

0 2 , fromOj a i , C a l ifo rnia .

He is BEMC o ’

s o pera t ions off icer,which means t ha t he ha s no t onlyt he no rma l responsib i lit ies of one oft he superviso rs — t he o t her superv iso rt his yea r is Avit a l S chwa rtz '

02— but

he is a lso in cha rge o f a ll medica lo pera t io ns o f BEMC o , ma intenance o ft he complex mont hly crew schedules ,and a l ist o f o t he r administ ra t ive ando pera t io na l dut ies t ha t he sha re s wit ht he five o t he r s tudent s elected toBEMC o

’

s execut i ve bo a rd. He doesa ll t his while addit iona lly wo rkingo ff- campus , sometimes a ll night , fo ran ambulance company; a ttendingB randeis a s a full—t ime student ,ma jo ring in psycho logy; andpa rt icipa t ing in a req uired, yea r

- long ,

eight - hour—per—week internsh ip .

Baskin has been in BEMC o fo r t hreeyea rs , first t aking t he BEMC osponso red EMT course in t he secondsemester of his freshman yea r andreceiving his EMT certi fic at ion duringt hat summer. He jo ined BEMC o as

a tert ia ry a t the beg inning of hissophomo re yea r and has beenimmersed in it ever s ince .Wit h his leve lof invo lvement in BEMC o and his

job with the ambulance service , one

would t ake fo r g ranted t ha t Ba skin ispremed.Yet , he is not .

We l l , I came to Brandeis a psycho logyma jo r and expla ins ,and a b io ma jo r, and a neuro sciencema jo r ( he laug hs ) , t hinking t ha tmedicine was where Iwanted togo . I knew t ha t t ha t kind of se rvicewa s somet hing Iwant ed to p rovide ,

somet hing Iwa nted to do wit h my l i fe .

You know, you t hink, ‘

Iwant to he lppeo ple .Wha t should Ido? Be a do cto r.’Iwa s a lways interest ed inmedicinemedicine and t hea ter— through hig hschoo l . But t hen I just so rt of rea l izedt ha t it wa sn’ t fo rme . I st il l have t hesame des ire t o he lp peo ple , but I don

’

t

t hink t ha t 's t he way Iwant to do it ."

Why st ill in BEMC o , t hen?

Tha t ’s a good q uest ion, and everybody

a sks it ," he says . But I love do ingt his . It

’

s a g rea t service and one t hecommunity needs and has come t oexpect . I just wouldn’

t want to makea l ife of it . I t hink psycho logy is mo rewhere Iwant to go .

In fa ct , a bout 20 percent o f a ct iveBEMC o student s have no intent ion of

go ing to medic a l schoo l . Even amongtho se who do , t he preva il ing a t titudeis t ha t being a membe r of BEMC ois no t a bout gett ing into medic a lschoo l ; it is a bout providing a needed

service to the Brande is communi ty,he lping peo ple , do ing somet hingwo rt hwhi le — a h end in it self.

Fo r mo re info rma t ion a bout BEMC o ,

plea se visit itsWeb s ite a tl

C liff Ha up tman’

69 , M.EA. 7 53, is

directo r o f pub lica tions a t B rande isand editor o f the B rande is Review .

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Sw imming t hrough S o c ia l C ha nge

The func t ion of the pub l i c swimm ingpoo l has changed o ver t ime

,W i l t se

has di s covered .

”In the mid- 1 9 th

century, c i ty o ffi c ia l s began bu i ldingpubl i c sw imming poo ls in the poores tne ighborhoods . They were in tended t obe p la ces for work ing- c la s s men and

women t o come and c lean themselves .

Early poo l s hadno showers , wh i chwere cons idered redundan t ; peop lewou ld en ter pub l ic sw imm ing poo l sdir ty . Bu t

,in pra c t ice, work ing men

andwomen didn ’ t come t o poo l s t oba the— the ir chi ldren flo c ked there t oha ve fun .

”

More than 90 percen t of the peop lewho u sed pub l i c poo ls during thela te 1 9 th and early 20 th cen turieswere ch i ldren

,mo s t ly ado les cen t boys .

Sma l ler numbers of ado les cen t g irlsand adu l t men a l so swam

,bu t v ir tua l ly

no adu l t women used these fa c i l i t ies .Gangs of young boys became a spec ia lprob lem .

JeffWiltse

3 0 Brandeis Review

W i l t se,who earned his B A . a t the

Un i vers i ty o f Puge t Sound, has beenenc ouraged by Jones t o t ry pub l i sh inghis di s ser ta t ion wi th a ma ins treampres s , bel ieving tha t i t c an appea lbeyond a cademi c c irc les .

Down S out h w it h t he B ig To p

Th ink of tho se N orman Ro c kwe l lp i c tures of the old sw imm ing ho le,then sub tra c t the gau zy roman t i c i smby ma k ing the sw immers rougher andgrubb ier. I argue tha t there i s along tra di t ion of work ing class men

and boys sw imming in urban wa tersand crea t ing a very bo i s terou s , defian t ,roughhous ing cu l ture, W i l t se says .

”And I argue they transp lan ted tha tcu l ture t o mun ic ipa l swimming poo ls .

The sw imming hab i ts of lower- c la s sma les had a lways made the mi ddlec la s s unea sy— boys sw imm ing na kedoffwharves andbri dges .

”N ude

sw imming was common among the

work ing c la s s , bu t i t cau sed a grea t dea lof confl i c t in c i t ies . Bo s ton

,N ew York

,

M i lwau kee,and C h i cago a ll pa s sed

laws bann ing mun i c ipa l swimm ingduring the day l igh t hours wi th in a mi lefrom shore. Thi s was t o pro tec t theV i sua l proprie ty, the pub l ic decency, t okeep peop le from see ing these na kedboy s . Andwhen these boys werebrough t in to the firs t pub l i c poo l s ,turf wars— or perhap s , surf wars— bro keou t

,as exemp l ified by the fia s co in

Broo k l ine .

Greg Renoff i s inves t iga t ing c ircuses inthe s ta te o f Georgia from the end of the

C i v i l War t o the Depres s ion . Renoff i s” les s in teres ted in the number of c lownsc ircu ses had than in peop le and the irrea c t ions t o the c ircu s

,how ordina ry

peop le beha ved a t the c ircu s , and howra ce p layed ou t as a fa c tor a t the c ircu s .He i s research ing how the na t iona l

,

mega- c ircu ses fared in Georgia , aswel l

asmore lo ca l,homegrown troupes ,

“ sma l ler shows w i th abou t e igh t wagonsand two or three mangy l ions .

The Spar ta , N ew Jersey, na t i ve became

in trigued by Sou thern hi s tory wh i leS tudy ing as an undergradua te a tRu tgers , in trigued enough t o ven turet o theDeep Sou th t o earn a ma s ter ’sdegree in h is tory a t the Un i vers i ty of

M i s s i s s ipp i . Brande i s a t tra c ted Renoffbecau se of ”

the qua l i ty of the fa cu l ty,becau se of peop le l i ke Ja cquel ine JonesandDav id Ha c ke t t F i s cher [the EarlWarren Pro fes sor of he says .He cons idered ta c k l ing the h i s tory o fc ircu ses throughou t the Sou th, bu tJones adv i sed him t o focus on a

par t icu lar s ta te, t o ma ke the pro jec tless daun t ing.

”She sa i d

,

’Why no t t ryGeorgia ? ’ I t 's worked ou t wel l becau seGeorgia includes A t lan ta , one of thekey c i t ies of the region, p lu s lo ts ofcoun try s ide . In theory, I th ink I couldha ve s tudied any s ta te in the Sou th .

Renoff’s research,l i ke W i l t se ’

s, has

invo lved consu l t ing origina l sources,espec ia l ly newspaper a c coun t s o f c ircusv i s i t s t o Georgia towns . “

N ewspaperstended t o co ver the coming of thec ircu s , says Renoff. ”

In the c oun t iesof Georgia , everyone wou ld show up

for the c ircu s,and there wou ld be a

lo t of dr ink ing and carous ing . Th is wasa huge event , espec ia l ly in these t inytown s . A town w i th a popula t ionof les s than a thou sand migh t ha ve

people s treaming in t o see

the c ircu s .” Reno ff has a l so s cannedenterta inmen t maga z ines , tradepub l i ca t ions tha t covered the c ircu s ,p lu s au tob iograph ies of Georgians . Hesays , ” I ’d page through the ir chap terson ch i ldhood, t o see i f the au thors everv isi ted the c ircus .

” Through variou scon ta c ts

,Renoff has been in tou ch

w i th c ircus bu f fs, l i ke an At lan taman

, a ret ired radio broadcas ter, whohas co l lec ted decades of newspaperc l ipp ings concerning circu s happen ings ,every th ing from ”

a -

good - t ime-was-had

by -a ll”t o brawl s and es caped elephan t s .

Al though the c ircu s a t tra c ted a cro s sco lor audience

,the few b la c k c ircu ses

in Georgia led brief l i ves . “There was

one b la c k c ircu s tha t la s ted a coup leof years , bu t there were no t anylarge-sca le b la c k opera t ions, Reno ff

says , ”and there were very few b la c k

per formers . There was a young boy, ari der

,who wasAfri can-Ameri can

,bu t

he was b i l led as E th iop ian t o ma ke himseem exo t i c .

The c ircu s parade, however, was a

demo cra t i c,i f temporary, pub l ic spa ce .

“ I t was open t o everyone, ” Renoffexp la ins . ”M any Afri can-Ameri cans didno t ha ve a lo t o f di spo sable income

,

so they wou ld go ou t by the s ide o ft he road and en joy the parade . There

,

as far as I c an tel l , there was a k indof suspens ion of the norma l rules sotha t wh i te and b la ck mixed freely . Ra cei s sues d idn’t vani sh

,bu t there was 3

Greg Renoff

k ind of bo i s terou s demo cra cy of a llra ces and cla s ses . Ins i de the ten t s

,there

was segrega ted sea t ing, bu t as far as Ic an tel l

,there were no segrega ted t i c ke t

l ines a t the s i deshow,everyone cou ld

look a t the bearded mos tin teres ted in finding ou t why peop lewere w i l l ing t o su spend the ru les ofra ce .

”

By the early 20 th cen tury, the b iggershows began buying up the ir sma l lerri va l s and the resu l t ing la c k ofcompet i t ion engendered an overa l lb landness t o the indus try .

”The need

t o be crea t i ve lessened,Renoff say s .

He po in ts t o the s tagnant s ta te o fthe c ircu s po s ter a s ev idence of th i sperva s i ve le thargy .

”C ircu s art never

grew,

” he says , ”never showed the

influence o fmodern i sm,for examp le .

There was a no s ta lgia e lemen t t o c ircu sart early on .

”

Reno ff no tes tha t b la c k s ha ve ta kena more cen tra l ro le in con temporaryc ircu s l i fe .

”There i s a very suc ces s fu lb la c k c ircu s tha t wa s founded inA t lanta in 1 994 . The U niverSoul C ircu shas incorpora ted hip -hop andAfri canelemen t s in to i t s performances . I triedt o go t o i t la s t yea r in A t lan ta , ” he says,

”bu t i t was so ld ou t .

”

These a re wonderfu l top i c s , incredib lyri ch and in teres t ing, says Ja cquel ineJones

,

”and Jef f andGreg ta ke ful l

credi t for finding them. A l though theAmeri can h i s tory gradua te programa t Brande i s i s very sma l l

,we ta ke

pri de in le t t ing our s tudent s fo l lowthe ir crea t i ve impul ses wherever tho se

impu l ses ta ke them . Jef f andGregha ve found primary ma teria l rela tedt o the ir top i cs a ll over the coun try,arch i va l ma teria l tha t conta ins anex traordina ri ly rich amoun t of de ta i l .These disserta t ions w i l l be wonderfu lhuman s tories andwindows in tolarger so c ia l and cu l tura l changes inAmeri can h i s tory .

”I

S t eve Ana ble is a st aff wr i t er.

Edi tor ’s N o te:In resu l t s relea sed on Oc tober 1 7,20 0 1

,Brande i s ’s gradua te program in

Ameri can h i s tory s cored a t the t opof a l i s t o f 6 0 h i s tory programsranked in a survey of gradua teS tudent s . The survey, condu c ted by theN a t iona l As so c ia t ion o f Gradua te andPro fes s iona l S tuden t s

,ranked programs

a c cording t o bes t pra c t i ces— breadthof o f ferings , informa t ion prov ided t os tuden t s

,s tuden t - fa cu l ty rela t ionships ,

and o ther fa c tors . Brandei s ’s programa l so t ied for firs t pla ce w i th theU n i vers i ty of Pennsylvania in i t s leve lo f overa l l s tuden t sa t i s fa c t ion .



Pro fesso r S usan B irren and Rob Mo rlend '

0 2

t ha t peop le didn' t know 1 0 minut esbefo re you ran t he experiment . I

rea l ly l ike uncovering de ta ils .

”

Kumfer,3 Howa rd Hughes Medic a l Inst it uteunderg radua te fe l lowship recip ientla st summer, says tha t he can’ timag ine no t do ing resea rch — t ha t heviews i t as l itera l ly g e tt ing into wha tyou a re do ing , shedding l ight a s he

describes i t , compe ll ing fa r beyond a

c la ssroom lecture .

”

I'

ve lea rned t ha tt he fa culty c an be ta lked to info rma lly,t ha t scienc e is no t only in a lec t ureha ll. His persona l ity is we l l suited tola b wo rk, he says , espe c ia lly hisa b i l ity to keep coming b a ck whent hings a ren’

t wo rking and t hen figureout why t hey

'

re no t wo rking . A

science and philo sophy ma jo r, Kumferis pa rticula rly interested in log ica lpuzzles , t rans la ting t o sc ience t he


a spect o f phi lo so phy t ha t dict a t est here a re a lways a lt erna t ives to wha tyou

’

re thinking .

Pondering these q ues tions as hep lans to head fo rmedic a l schoo l ,Ro b Mo rla nd ’

0 2 wo rks in B irren'

s

la b .Wit h four yea rs experience as

Abundant a l terna t ives confrontresea rchers in t he develo pmenta lb io logy lab o f S usan Birren, asso cia tep ro fesso r of neuro b io logy andVo lenN a tiona l C ente r fo r C omp lex S ystems .

S he a sks how ce l ls in ea rly emb ryo stha t have t he po ssib il ity to becomemany different t hing s — cons ideredmult ipo tent precurso r ce l ls— makedecis ions a s t o wha t kind o f cel lst hey eventua l ly a re go ing to become .

S he fo cuses on ne rvous systems tounders tand how c e llswi th mul tip lepo tent ia ls deve lop into neurons. Oncetha t dec is io n is made , how does t he ce llthenmake t he de c ision to become a

sympa t het ic neuron? And t hen beyondtha t , how does tha t sympa t het ic neuronfo rm funct iona l connections to t he hea rtand how does it t hen cont ro l t hefunct ion of t he hea rt? " B irren asks , he rwo rds highspeed yet dist inct . All o f

t his is done in vitro — resea rchers t a kecel ls out o f t he anima l and examinet hem in a dish .

Birren empha sizes t hat answers o pena who le ho st of new q uest ions — and

suddenly she is firing — ra t -a - ta t—ta t

one q uestion urgent ly building ont he next with an insistent rhyt hm:

”

Wha t a re tho se mo lecules in theenvironment ?Wha t a re t heir ident it ies?Why do t he precurso r cells respond tot hem?What is t he mo lecula r expressionof recepto rs that permits t he ce lls torespond? How do t hey change overt ime?Why is it tha t a cell is restric t ed?Is it no t responding to t he signa l? Whyis it no t responding to the signa l? Havet hey changed the expression o f t herec epto rs? Or does it just respond to thesame s igna l but do somet hing e lse?"

experience do ing develo pment a lb io logy in t he la b , yet she is st i l lconstant ly amazed .

”

I'

m a lways st ruckand t a ken a b a ck when I st a rt go ingt hrough t he ea rly develo pment a lpro cesses .Wha t rea l ly st rikes meis how much has to ha ppencoo rdina t ed, co rrectly — to a ct ua l ly geta funct ioning , via b le anima l in t hedevelo pment a l pro cess . And everyt ime I do t his I'm just complete lya stonished a t how often you end

up wit h somet hing tha t is no rma land funct ioning and everyt hing wo rksperfect ly. And so I

’

m fundamenta llyinterested in t he p ro cesses t ha tpermit t ha t to happen and inunderst anding why in some ca sest hey don

'

t happen. If you c a n

underst and t ha t a t a mo lecula r levelyo u will underst and how an o rganismc an reproduc e , which is fundament a l lya fa scina t ing p ro b lem.

3 5 Brandeis Review

Wha tever t he resea rch fie ld I choose ,

t he p repa ra t ion I’m having in t he la bwill a pply to nea rly a ny of my o p tions .

And now Me islin is mento ring ano t he rfreshman. It is rea l ly interest ing t obe on t he o t her s ide of a ba rrage ofq uest ions ,” he says .

Ho ping t o const ruct a doub le ma jo rin b io chemis try and ma t h , Me islin a lso

finds t ime to swim and play vo l leyba l l ,Ultima te Frisbee , sq ua sh, and to

swing dance , no t to mention ma int a inan interest inmus ic ( pa rticula rlyopera ) . C onst antly curious , he minest he expe rienc e of o lder resea rchersThey don' t hes it a te in answering

q ues tio ns , a lt ho ug h I am rea llype rsis tent ; I ha ve no doubt somepeo p le ha ve some times fe lt l ikewring ing my Meticulo us ,pa tient , and st ra ight fo rwa rd, Me islin

is o rig ina lly from Isra el but hast raveled extens ively, l iving , amongo t her p la ces , in C hic ago ; Geneva ,

Swit ze rland; a nd B razi l , where he wasg radua t ed from high schoo l .

la b jo b s , s tudent s who a re int eres tedc an go to www.b io .b rande is.edu to

find resea rch descript io ns o f a ll t hefa culty members in t he li fe sciences .

Moo re suggest s t ha t st udent s cont a ctt hree o r four p ro fesso rs who seresea rch looks int eres ting and aski f t hey have any po s i tions in t hela b . Do n

’

t put i t o ff unt il a ft erso phomo re yea r. ”

To my know edge ,

every underg radua t e who has

want ed to wo rk in a resea rch la b a tBrandeis has fo und a p lac e ,

"

she

says . How c an Iget a jo b in a

la b i f I don’

t have experienc e? ’

ask

underg rads .We do no t expect you t ohave experience — t ha t 's wha twe

'

re here fo r.We want s tudentsto exp lo re resea rch .We a re rea l lycommit ted t o t his,

”

answers Moo re .

Ea ch la b has a pa rt icula r a tmo sphere ,

and Moo re expla ins , Frommyvant age po int , I t hink la bo ra to riesa re l ike fami lies , and I'm t he mom

The head of t he fami ly— o r t he

S tudent s o ft en come to t he la b toexp lo re if resea rch is right fo r t hem,

and Moo re is hea rtfelt when shecomment s t ha t it is just as va lua b leto find tha t it is no t right as itis to get hoo ked. Indeed, s tudent sa re explo ring t he la b — and themse lves .

They find t ha t it is impo rt ant to havet he right mix of mechanica l skills andana lyt ic a b il ity. Acco rding toWe l te ,

who exp la ins t ha t fo r him s implyloo king a t fruit f ly emb ryos is intense lyg ra tifying bec ause t hey a re ext reme lybea uti ful , ”

You need to wo rk ha rd.You

need to have a hig h t o leranc e fo rfrust ra t io n because 90 percent of t heexperiment s you do fa i l in some wayo r anot her. S o you have t o be ab leto re lish thing s when t hey wo rk, buta lso to get plea sure out of t he journey,wit ho ut count ing on t he result t ha tcomes a t t he end. Moo re adds t ha t ab ig ins ight is ra re ( ”Once you'

ve had

one of t ho se , you live fo r it . but you

get enough sa t is fying l it t le hit s a longt he way.

Pa ssiona te a bout t he resea rchodyssey, Al issa N e lson ’

0 3 , a

neuro science ma jo r int erest ed ingenetics , st a rted a t t he bo t tom,

ma int a ining f ly s to cks in t he la b ofJeffrey Ha ll, pro fesso r o f b io logy andVo len N a t iona l C enter fo r C omplexS ystems . S he wo rked he rwayup , and la st summer go t t heo ppo rtunity to wo rk on her ownpro ject . N elson rememberslooking a t s l ides under t he micro scopeas a l it t le g irl, la ter lea rning ba s icla b techniq ues in junio r high schoo lfo r science fa ir p ro ject s from her

fa ther, a microb io logy pro fesso r a t t heUnivers i ty of Rhode Is land,

and hermo t her, a genera l b io log ist .

C hie f announce r a tW BRS la st summerand current indie rock show hos t ,N e lson is commi tt ed t o resea rch,

planning t o ea rn a PhD. Resea rchexperience is mo re va lua b le thant he la b c la ssroom because of t heha nds-o h aspect ," she says .

You a ctua l ly have t he p ressure to doi t right .When you

’

re in a la b

cla ssroom yo u don'

t get any fo l low—up

o t her t han a g rade .Thisway you’

re

a ct ua lly cont ribut ing to t he rea l

wo rld, a nd you’

re no t wo rking in ava cuum.You a lso have peo p le froma ll different viewpo int s wo rking on t hesame t hing , so you lea rn a lo t fromea ch o ther," she expla ins .

Listen to her adviso r, Ha ll, a prominentp rofesso r of neurogenet ics whospecia lizes in t he courtship beha vio rand b io log ica l rhyt hms o f t he frui t fly( and a lso lectures on t he Ba t t le ofGet tysburg ) : ”

An ext ra bene fit is youhave a home at B randeis , o t her t hanl iving in t he do rms o rmaybe on Sout hS t reet .This is a sepa ra te pla ce t hatt ruly is your home . Underg radua tescome here t o wo rk, t hey get toknow people here who become t he ira sso cia tes , t hey come here to s tudy,t hey hang out somet imes . It

’

s a who lesepa ra te (da re one say ) culture . I te ll

t hem,

’

Idon'

t ca re i f you a re 1 8 , I t rea t

you as an adul t . You'

re an a ssocia te ,

and we enco urage you to rea lly diginto t he guts o f wha t your resea rchpro ject is a bout , and to sust a in yourknowledge—

pes ter uswith q uest ions ,demand pieces o f reading , and t ha t

wi l l permit you to do your ownresea rch by t he t ime you a re a

junio r, a llowing you to make your ownindependent ma rk.You plan it ; yousust a in it .

a Moo re

lab — set s t he tone .

"

Her style is t omo t iva te student s by inspiring pa ss iona bout science and ownership o f t he irp ro ject s . And when t hey a re in t he

la b , she expect s t hem to be wo rking .

But t ha t doesn’

t meanMoo re is in heroffice 1 0 0 hours a week . S he expect sstudent s to have a ba lanced life, as

she does . But I do t hink a bout sciencea ll t he t ime . Imight be t a king ashower and somet h ing wi ll occur tome ,

"

she says , expect ing t ha t herinvo lved student s wi ll do t ha t t oo .

When you a re mo st re laxed, you c an

t hink out s ide t he box, and t ha t iswhen you a re mo st crea t ive ,

"

expla insMoo re , adding ,

”

One of t he t hings t ha tg ives me t he mo st joy is whenmyst udent s have t ho ught of somet hingtha t l haven'

t .Tha t’

s t he day when

t hey have made a g rea t Iea p .They’

ve

rea lized t ha t t hey can t hink of o rig ina lt hings , and t ha t fo rme is a t hril l .I’m very much a bout empoweringl’m t ra ining t hem to be independentscient ist s , so I t ry to ma ke t hem a s

independent as possib le .Tha t’

s o ne o f

my go a ls .

"

Moo re want s her student sto t hink a bout q uest io ns first , and t henso lut ions.The a ppro a ch is second.

Lea rning how to be a resea rcher isnot so much wha t you know, it isknowing where to lo ok fo r t he answerand t hen how to find it out .

Remembering an ea rly experiment ,Me islin says he waswi ldly ent husia st ic .

I t hought t he resul t was beaut i ful ,ge l st a ined b lue . And a t t he end I

looked a t the ge l and t hought , ’

Idon’

t

underst and wha t this t h ing is tel l ingme ! "There was the next crucia llevel : underst anding wha t to dowit h the result s , because theexperiment s in t hemse lves a re no tt he crux of the ma tter.The cruxof t he ma t ter is why you do t hemandwha t you get from t hem.

Amaels trom of q uest ions and answersbeget mo re q uest ions in a neve r-endingcyc le t ha t is pushing — four stepsfo rwa rd and t hree ba ck— a t the

precipice of t he unknown. At B randeis ,unde rg radua te s tudent s wo rk c lose lywit h g radua te s tudent s , po st do cs ,

and p rofesso rs , sha ring intox ica t ingb rea kt hroughs and everydayfrust ra t ions . Awindow into t hela bo ra to ries revea ls pro fesso rs l ikeBirrenwi th her crisp , ra pid-fi req uest ions ; Moo re , guiding s tudent st o be sel f-fulfi lled inwha tever t heychoo se ;We lt e wit h his spa rklingent husia sm and pana che ; and Ha ll,fa scina ted wit h t he fly 's genes t ha tcont ro l t he da i ly s leep-wa ke cyc le .

Revea led , too , a re pa ssiona te st udent sl ike Kumferwit h his ”

C ould I t a keit ?Yes— 4O hours a week was bet terthan 20 — l can’

t imag ine no t do ingt his ; Me islin, who has found hishome in t he la b , wit h his la ser- sha rpinte ll igence , eager and pa t ient a t t hesame t ime ; Mo rland, honing skills fo ra ca reer inmedicine ; and N elson,

commit ted t o resea rch as a Ph.D.

They a re a ll fueled by t he memo ry( and ho pe of repea ting ) tha t p recious ,coveted moment Eureka ! "

Ma rjorie Lyon is a s ta ff wri ter.

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Mo ckbee — o r S ambo

as he is affectiona t elyre ferred to — foundedRura l S t udio as a ba sefo rAuburn

's S usta ina b leArchitecture prog ram.

Though a lmo st 1 50mi les away from t he

ma inAuburn campus ,t he prog ram a t t ra ct sover 3 0 underg radua te

and ma ster’s deg reestudent s annua lly, ea cho f whom comple tesbui lds ) a la rge- sca lepro ject in t hesurrounding community.

The prog ram fo cuses onus ing innova t ivema teria ls and met hodsto bui ld s tructures t ha tmeet t he needs o f t helo ca l c ommunity.The

prog ram is ho list ic int he sense t ha t wo rka b leso lut ions to communityneeds a re ” fo rged byrea l human conta ct ,persona l rea liza t io n, and

a ga ined a pp rec ia tionfo r t he [loca l]cult ure .

To tho se in t hea rchi tecture wo rld, i tss tudent s a re bes t -knownfo r us ing lo ca l ly recycledma teria ls — including

g la ss bot t les , b a les ofca rdboa rd, and

automo b ile l icensepla tes — to co nst ructdura b le st ructures a t lowcost . Pa st innova t ivep ro ject s have includedba seba l l fields,

community cent ers , andan amphithea ter.

Our fina l rout e includeda ll of t hese s ites , aswell as severa l o t hers inAla bama a nd Miss iss ipp it ha t p layed a key ro le

in t he C ivi l Right ss trugg le during t he1 9 50 8 and 1 9 6 0 s The

mo st va lua b le a spect s o four experiences in ea chof t hese pla ces oftencame from unexpectedsources , however. InPrincevi l le , fo r inst a nce ,

we were a b le to viewfirst hand t he t errib leafterma th o f Hurrica neFloyd, aswe ll a switnesst he beg inning s o f t hecommunity 's amb it iousreb irth . But wha t we

wi ll a lways remembe ra bo ut tha t day was ourafter-ho urs mee ting wi thTown Planner S amKnight . After a hect icwo rkday, Knightgenerous ly ag reed tospea k with us a bout

At t he Lo rra ine Mo t el inMemp his, Tennessee , whereMa rt in Lut he r K ing , J r. wa s sho t

a nd k illed in 1 96 8

t he rebui lding effo rt , andhe pa t ient ly a nsweredover a n hour

’s wo rtho f our q uest io ns a boutt he dec is ion to rebuildra t her t han a bando n the

town, how t he lo ca lgovernment ha s

effect ive ly dea lt wit h thelo g ist ics of having la rgenumbers o f displa cedres ident s , how t he town

ha s successfullymob i l ized out sidesuppo rt and funding ,

and how t hey go a bout

ensuring eq uity in t heo rdering o f relo ca t ions .

We co ncluded aswe

a lways did wit h ourguest spea kers , byinq uiring a bout t he bes tlo ca l p la ce to ea t and

t hen invit ing Knight tohave dinnerwit h us.

Aft er a ssuring him t ha t

we genuine ly wantedlo ca l food ( he firstrecommended t he cha inres taurant s inTa rbo ro ,

a la rger neighbo ringtown) , he revea led to us

t ha t he owned a t rucks top a t t he edge of town,

and tha t t he ir kit chen/night club was go ing tobe o pening fo r t he firstt ime t ha t very night !We eagerly fo l lowedKnight ’s ca r to t he t ruckstop , where we had a

wonderful evening . Lee

Tusman’

04 described itin mo re det a i l in hisjourne t

As we drove up , a la rg e

s ign with the s imp lewo rds GOODFOOD

s tood wa it ing for us andca lled out, Th is is homecookin.

’

Be tt er come ea tit up .

” Workers ho is teda neon

”

Op en” s ign and

ha s tened to clean up

the dining room fo r us.

J unk wa s p iled up in

the co rners . Litt le kidscha tt ered. Ra in s ta rtedto pour down on us

At t he Auburn UniversityS c hoo l of Arc hitect ure '

sRura lS t udio in N ewb ern, Ala bama


Wa it ing t o reb oa rdin Ledya rd , Connec ticut

and we p iled ins ide . i

immedia te ly knew, th iswas the perfect p la ce fo rme .

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As fo r t he future of

t he p rog ram, during t hiscoming a cademic yea r,t he bus students wi llbe highly vis ib leon campus , o rganizingstudent fo rums ,do cument a ry screening s ,photog ra phy exhib it s ,community dinners ,and mult imediaperfo rmances ba sed onma teria l ga t hered duringt he t rip .The st udent swi ll a lso be cent ra lpa rt icipants in a numberof campus o rganiza t io ns ,including t hose t ha t seekto fight fo r socia l just icein t he Bo ston a rea andbeyond . As fo r t he

longer—term, g iven t heprog ram

’s powerfuleffect on its pa rt icipant sand a b i l ity to b roadenstudent s ' unders tandingsof t he wo rld a roundt hem, I ho pe to inst it utePo ssib ilit ies fo r C hang eas a b iannua l p rog ram,

wit h t he next genera t iondepa rt ing in t he summerof 20 0 3 . Our cent ra l t a skover t he next yea r is tora ise t he funds necessa ryto a llow t h is to ha ppen.

This summer, we enjoyedt he generous f inanc ia lsuppo rt o f t he Brandeisadministra t ion, but our

go a l is to ra ise t he fundsnecessa ry to es ta b l isht he p rog ram a s a

self- suppo rt ing entity.

Ba sed o n t he excitedresponse I've rece ivedfrom individua ls a ll over

t he Uni ted S ta tes — as

we ll as Zimb a bwe ,

Austra l ia , Po land,

C anada , and Ko rea — who

wa t ched o r read s to riesa bout t he t rip (we wereco vered by a va riety o fmedia out let s , inc ludingC N N , C anadian Pub l icRadio , and The N ew

Yo rk Times ) , Po ssib ili t iesfo r C hang e inAmericanC ommunit ies is anexpenence t ha t c an

cont ribute to B rande is ’swel l -deserved reput a t ionas a University t ha tdeve lo ps st udent s whoa re so cia lly awa re as

we ll a s inte l lectua llyca pa b le . I

S ince a rriving a t

Brande is in 1999 , Da vidC unningham ha s ta ugh t

courses rela ted tocommunity organiza t ion,

ra ce and power in so cia llife, so cia lmovements,and resea rch des ign.

He ha s a lso deve lop edand is current ly direc t ingthe Po ss ib il it ies fo rC hange inAmericanC ommunit ies p rog ram.

His resea rch interes tsinclude the p o lit ica lrep ress ion o fp ro tes t g roup s (mo s t lyfo cused on FB Icounterintellig enc ea c tivit ies ) and you thsub cultures in suburb ia .

His firs t book,We lcometo t he Ma chine :The FBI

'

s Rep ression oft he Radic a l Rig ht Left ,

is fo rthcoming in20 02 from Univers ityo f C a lifo rnia Press .

Pa rt ic ipa nt s in t he BusTrip

AprilAla rioC la ss o f 20 0 3C oncent ra t ion: Eng lishProg rams: Film S t udies andIt a lian S t udies

Adam B rooksC lass of 20 0 4Wa lnut C reek, C a lifornia

C oncent ra t ion: Undecided

Aa ron [Ka gan

C la ss of 20 0 2Bo ca Ra t on, Flo rida

C oncent ra t ion: EuropeanC ult ura l S t udies

N ico le Ka rleb a c hC la ss of 20 0 4Ea st Hamp t on, N ew Yo rkC oncent ra t ions : Po lit ics andS o c io logyProgram: Pea ce and C onflictS t udies

Dan [Lust igC la ss o f 20 02Broo kline , Ma ssa chuset t sC oncent ra t ions : Economic s andS o c io logy

Geo rge Okra ln

C la ss of 20 0 3Broo klyn, N ew Yo rkC oncent ra t ions :AmericanS t udies and S o c io logyPro grams : Lega l S t udies andJourna lism

Tameka Pring le

C la ss o f 20 0 3C oncent ra t ion: S o cio logyMinor:African andAfroAmerican S t udies

Alliso n S checht erC la ss of 20 03Fa ir Lawn, N ew JerseyMa jo r: EconomicsMino r: C omput er S ciencePro g ram: Int erna t iona l Bus iness

Andrew S la ckC la ss of 20 0 2Hunt ingdonVilla ge ,

PennsylvaniaC oncent ra t ion: S o c io logyMino r:Thea t erProgram: Pea ce and C onflic tS t udies

S uzy S t oneC la ss o f 20 02S t . Louis Pa rk , Minneso t aC oncent ra t ion: Hist o ryMino r:Art Hist o ry

LeeTusman

C la ss o f 20 0 4Wynnewood, PennsylvaniaC oncent ra t ion: S o cio logyProgram: Journa lism

Ja smineVa lle joC la ss o f 20 0 3Bronx , N ew YorkC oncent ra t ion: S o cio logy

Ba rb Browning

Ph .D. C andida t e

Depa rtment of S oc io logy

C heryl Kingma -Kiekhofer

Ph .D. C andida t e

Depa rtment of S oc io logy

David C unningham

Ass ist ant Pro fesso rDepa rtment o f S o cio logy

You can view st udent journa lent ries summa riz ing da ilya ct ivit ie s and furt herinforma t ion a bout t he

pa rt ic ipant s a twww .b randle ise du/

depa rtment s/so c io logy/ bus.

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Ma lc o lmRogers, Rut h and Trust ee C a rl S hap iro ,

G la dys and SV Z iv and N ancyW insh ipJ ehuda Re inha rz


Lo is Fost erW ing ded ic a t io n Lo is Fost er and Paula Th ier

Me l N esse l andMart inTrust Lo is Fost er, Mic ha e l andTrust ee Ronny Z inner

Trust ee Hank, Lo is, and Jo hn '

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Ric a rdo A. GodoyVi si t ing Pro fessor

Eric a Ha rt h , ed.

Professor ofHumani ties andWomen’s S tudies

Last Wi tnesses: Reflect ionson the War time Internmentof [apaneseAmeri cansPa lgrave— Globa l Publ i shinga t S t . Mart in’s Press

C a rmen S irianniand Lewis Friedland.

S irianni i s a Pro fessorof Socio logy .

C ivi c Innova tion inAmeri ca : C ommuni tyEmpowerment, Publ i cPoli cy, and theMovement for C ivicRenewal

Universi ty of C a l iforniaPress

Alumni

Rob ert F. Ba rsky’

8 4 , ed.

wi th M i chel Meyer. Barskyi s associa te professor a tthe Univers i ty ofWes ternOntario and the Univers i tyof Quebec and the author ofN oam C homsky: A L ife ofDissent .

Philosophy and thePassions: Toward a HistoryofHuman N a turePenn S ta te Univers i ty Press

The sub ject of the passionshas a lways hauntedWesternphi losophy and, more oftenthan no t

,arousedharsh

judgments . The pass ionsrepresent a force of excessand lawlessness inhumani ty tha t producestroubl ing, confus ingparadoxes . Thi s book offersan explana t ion tha t retracesthe hi s tory of phi losophi cconceptions of the pass ionsin the work of such thinkersas Pla to, Aris to tle, Hobbes ,August ine, Spinoza , Kant,Descar tes

,Rousseau

,and

Freud. The trans la t ion,preface

,introduct ion,

and

bib li ography are the work ofBarsky.

Murray 8 . Davis, Ph.D.

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Davis is an independentsociologi s t who lives inBerkeley, C a l ifornia .

Aphoristi cs: How‘

Interesting Ideas Turn

the World Inside OutSuperiorBooks.com

Wha t makes an ideainterest ing? In Aphorist i csthe au thor examines theaphori sm— the pures t, mos telementary form of an

interes t ing idea . He

describes i ts s tructure,the

rules of i ts cons truct ion,

the ironi c contents tha tmake i t provoca t ive, andthe l ingui s t i c forms tha tmake i t memorab le. He

develops and i l lustra tes hisgenera l thes is wi th hundredsof origina l aphori sms tha tco l lect ively compose a new,

po inti l l is t i c paradigm forrevi ta l iz ing socia l andcu l tura l theory .

Yehuda N . Fa lk'

8 0

Fa lk i s a lecturer in Engl i shl ingu is t ics a t The HebrewUni vers i ty of jerusa lem.

This textbook introducesthe syn tact i c theory ofLexi ca l -Funct iona lGrammar (LFG ) to peoplefami l iar wi th deriva t iona ltheories such asGovernment /Binding (GB )theory and the M inima l is tProgram (MP ) . It introducesthe conceptua lunderpinning of the theoryand i ts forma l mechani sms

,

anddevelops a port ion of

a grammar of Engl i sh. At

every s tep a long theway,the LPG approach iscontras tedwi th the GB/MPapproach in order to

mo tiva te LFG .

C ons truct ions coveredinclude pass ive da t ive,unaccusa t ives

,wh

movement,” control andra is ing cons truct ions, andanaphor.

Terrenc e L. Ga rg iulo'

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93

Gargiulo is a managementconsul tant

,organiza t iona l

development specia l i s t,and

group process fa ci l i ta torbased in San Franci sco

,C A .

Mak ing S tories: A Pra ct i ca lGuide for Organiza tiona lLeaders andHuman

Resource Specia lists

N ot only do wecommuni ca te throughstories

,we a lso learn from

them . S tory making ands tory tell ing are ski l l s tha tc an be learned

,and the

author shows you how to

do i t . Gargiu lo Opens wi tha model of how s tories areused and the effects theycan have

,andwi th vignet tes

and other examples, heidentifies their commonuses . Moving from the

conceptua l t o the app lied,Gargiu lo presents a model ofthe “ story mind, and closeswi th a series of exerci ses tohelp bui ld a large reservo irof stories for use throughou tthe organiza t ion.


L E O N A R D M L O D I N O W

Th e STORY of G E OMETRY fromPARAL L E L L IN E S t o HYPERS PAC

The Transna tiona l Vi llagersUnivers i ty of C a l iforniaPress

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' fl ‘ l ’ O I DI l l ) 0 0 V o l l l l ' l

N A I V I V M E V I R S O I

Leona rd Mlodinow'

7 6

Mlodinow was a member ofthe fa cul ty of the C a l i forniaIns ti tute of Techno logybefore moving to Ho l lywoodto become a wri ter fornumerous televis ion showsincluding S tar Trek:The N ext Genera tion and

N igh t C our t .

Eucl id'

sWindow: The S toryof Geometry from ParallelLines to Hyperspa ceFree Press

Eucl id’

sWindow leads uson a journey through fiverevolut ions in geometry,from the Greek conceptof para ll el lines to thela tes t no tions of hyperspace.

The au thor revea l s howgeometry’s firs t revo lut ionbegan wi th a schemeha tched by Pythagoras : hisinvention of a sys tem of

abstract ru les tha t couldmodel the universe . Then

,

a l s-

year-oldgenius real ized

tha t, li ke the Ear th’s surfa ce,space couldbe curved. Thi srevo lut ion reinventedma thema t ics andphysics .Today a t uni vers i t ies aroundthe world, scient is ts a rerecogni zing tha t a ll thevaried andwondrous forcesof na ture c an be understoodthrough geometry.

HarveyMeyerson, Ph .D.

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Meyerson holds a seniors taff pos i t ion a t the Libraryof C ongress ’s C ongressiona lResearch Service .

N a ture '

sArmy: WhenSoldiers Fough t for Yosemi teUni vers i ty Press of Kansa s

Thi s book celebra tes acrucia l

,but largely forgot ten

epi sode in our na t ion'shi s tory— the rescue of ourna t iona l parks by so ldierswi th an environmenta l ethi cgenera tions ahead of i tstime. From 1 890 unt i l theestabl i shment of thena t iona l Park Service in19 1 6 , soldiers drawn fromthe so—ca l ledOldArmyproved t o be extremelycompetent and fars ightedwil derness managers whoset s ignificant s tandards forthe fu ture overs ight of ourna t iona l parks .

Howa rd 8 . Rock'

6 6 and

DeborahDashMoore '

67, eds.

Rock is a professor ofhi s tory a t FloridaInterna t iona l Universi ty andMoore i s pro fessor ofreli gion a t Va ssar C ol lege.

C i tyscapes: A His tory ofN ew York in ImagesC o lumbia Universi ty Press

Pllllll’SIN

century through the endofthe 20 th century . Throughl i thographs, pa int ings,pho tographs , drawings , andbroads ides

,N ew York is

portrayed from i ts ris ingfrom a sma l l Du tch outpos tto the world economic andart is tic capi tal of the la te20 th century .

Philip S ingerman’

6 5

S ingerman hasworked asa journal i s t, TV producer,advert is ing copywri ter,housebui lder

,andbartender.

Proof Posi tiveTorn Doherty Associa tes

Af ter Ro landTroy’slong- los t love andnew bridei s murdered in an

Aus trianmountain cha let,

he qui ts chasing crimina l sand retrea ts to the ba ckwoods of Vermont . Butwhen his old fri end andformer par tner travel s fromFlorida t o ask a favor

,Troy

can’t say no to the reques tfor help in solving one lasthomi c ide. Thi s book takesthe reader fromrural Vermont to theswampland of Florida andinto the mounta ins a longthe Aus trian- I ta l ianborder as the hunt goes onfor the tru th abou t onegirl ’s pas t and the his tory ofan ent ire na tion.

S t even S o ifer, Ph .D.

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wi th GeorgeD. Zgourides,

Ioseph Himle, and N ancyL . Pickering. So ifer i sa ssocia te professor a t theUnivers i ty ofMarylandSchool of Socia l Work

,and

pres ident and cofounder ofthe Interna t iona l ParuresisAssocia tion.

Shy Bladder Syndrome: YourS tep -by-S tep Guide toOvercoming ParuresisN ew Harbinger Publ ica tions,Inc .

Mi l l ions of Ameri cans sufferfrom an anx iety problemtha t few know about andeven fewer di s cuss . Thi ssocia l phobia i s paruresis.

The long- term physica leffects of ho lding one’sb ladder due to paruresis areno t currently known but theemo tional pa in associa tedwi th paruresis i s severeand crippling . Thi s bookhas nine chapters , providingthe reader wi th crucia linforma t ion abou t ba shfu lbladder syndrome ando therba throom—rela ted phobias .


Reco rdings

DanMamo rst e in’

7 6

lust Before theDawnTut l Records

Lemuel the Pool

Peachtree Publ ishers

Amsterdam: A Traveler’

s

L i terary C ompanionWhereabou ts Press

S ta y S trong: Simple LifeLessons for TeensScho la st ic Inc .


B rande is S e ries inAmeric a n Jew ish Hist o ry,C ult ure , and LifeJona t hanD. S a rna , Edit o r;S ylvia Ba ra c k Fishman,

Asso cia t e Edit o r

S t evenT. Rosent ha l

IrreconcilableDifferencesl :The Waning of theAmeri can Iawish LoveAffa irwi th Israel

From 1 94 8 t o the mid- 1 970 5 ,

Ameri can lews and Iewi shorganiza tions were virtua l lyunanimous in their supportof the Iewi sh sta te . But

by the 1 990 3 , a ll thi s hadchanged. Rosentha l offersthe firs t ful l—sca leexamina t ion of the na tureanddevelopment of theAmerican jewish responset o Israel . The invasion of

Lebanon,the Po l lard spy

ca se,the ”Who i s a Iew i ”

controversy, and thePa lest ini an Int ifada havesha t teredAmerican Iewi shunanimi ty, but , as theauthor notes

,di sso lu tion

s tems aswell from a ha l fcentury of interna l changesand the evolut ion of Iewishident i ty in Israel i andAmeri can society .

B randeis S eries inAmeric an Jew ish Hist o ry,C ult ure , and Lifew it h t heBrande is S eries on JewishWomen

S hulamit Re inha rz ,Genera l Edit o r, Joyc eAnt ler, Assoc ia t e Edit or,S ylvia Ba ra c k Fi shman,

Assoc ia t e Edi to r, S usanKahn, Assoc ia t e Edit o r

At the endof the 20 th

century jewish women had

redefinedhow they l ivedtheir Juda i sm. These essaysshow tha t women have along and rich hi s tory ofimagining and cra ft ingmeaningful Iewi sh l ives .O ffering a genderedoverview of three centuriesof American jewi shrel igious l i fe, they ra i sekey ques t ions about howwomen from across thena t ion conceptua l ized theirideas of Iewi sh womanhoodeven as they trans formedtheir ro les a t home

,in

synagogues, as volunteers,and in the publ i c eye.

Sarna i s the Ioseph H. and

Bel le R . Braun ProfessorofAmerican jewish Hi s torya t Brandei s Univers i ty andN adel l directs the IewishS tudies Program a t

American Univers i ty.

Ta ub er Inst it ut e fo r t heS t udy o f European Jewry

J ehuda Re inha rz, Genera lEdit o r, Michae l B renner,Asso cia t e Edi to r

Yiga l S c hwa rt zAharonAppelfeld: FromIndividua l Lament to TribalE terni ty

Appelfeld’

sworks havereceivednumerouspres tigious l i terary awardsin Israel aswel l asinterna t iona l cri t i ca laccla im. Yet there i s apauci ty of cri ti ca l wri t ingabout his body ofwork .

The au thor’s study, basedin part on interviews wi thAppelfeldhimsel f, fil ls thi sgap . S chwartz organizes hisbook around three ofAppelfeld

’

sma jor themes :the recovery of chi ldhoodandmemory, the crea t ionof pla ce, and the rel igiousstance of the Ho locaus twri ter. He sees Appelfeld asa Ho locaust wri ter whoseunderlying concerns gobeyondhis experiences asa Ho locaus t surv ivor t oinclude larger i ssues ofIewi sh ident i ty in themodern period.

Wa lt er Laq ueur

Genera tion Exodus: the Fa teof Young Iawish Refugees

from N a zi Germany

Some ha lf a mi ll ion jewsl ived in Germany whenHi t ler came to power in1 93 3 . Over the next decade

,

thousands would flee.

Among these refugees, teensandyoung adul ts formed

a genera tion. Born between19 1 4 and 1 928 , they wereold enough to apprecia tethe loss of their homelandand experience of fl ight, butoften young andflexibleenough to survive and evenflouri sh in newenvironments . Many wouldgo on to make grea tcontribut ions to their newcountries and to the world.

Thi s is a genera tiona lhi s tory of the young peoplewhose l ives were irrevocab lyshapedby the ri se of theN azis .

Laq ueur, a member of thi sgroup of refugees , cha irsthe Research C ounci l ofthe C enter for S tra tegicand Interna tiona l S tudies inWashington,

DC


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Homecoming2001 Weekend

Smiles and fun a t t he

Homecoming S t e in N ig ht

returned t o the Brandei scampus t o remini s ce andenjoy dinner.

game. Themen’s rugby team

played a home game,and

the women’s lacrosse team

organized an a lumni/s tudent game . The swimteam and the fencing teamheld a lumni meets, anda number of a lumni andstudent teams competed inthe Intramura l 3 -3

Basketba l l Tournament fora chance to win pa irs ofti ckets t o the C el t i cs game

of their choi ce .

One of the highl ights ofthe a fternoon was S treetFes t

,a specia l event for all

members of the Brandei scommuni ty, fea turingBrandei s s tudent clubs

,

s tudent performers,mus ic

,

food,amusement rides

,and

games . The s tage was neverqu iet wi th performances bysome of themos t popular

Cla ss of 1 9 8 4 mini-Reuniono rganizers Eli S ega l

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D anny Lehrma n'

6 4 , E a rlWa rren

Pro fesso r o f Hist o ry D avid Ha cke ttFisc her, and J eff Co hen '

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student groups, includingAdagio Dance, Bori s 'Ki tchen

,the L ionDance

Troupe, S tarving Art is ts ,C ompany B, and theBrandei s So lo Ensemble .

Pro ject Brandei s Spiri t,a

new student club, organized

a Spiri t Tro l ley tha t s tudentsand a lumni cou ld ridearound the campus .

Hundreds of a lumni andfami ly members a t tendedthe annua l Friends ofBrandeis Athleti cs (FOBA )Ha l l of FameDinner inGosman Sports C enter. The

inductees included: RobertBrannum (go lf coach),Dennis F. Donoghue

’

77

( track and field), Phi l ip T.

Go lds tein ’54 ( foo tba l l ),

S tanley E . House ’

90

(ba sketba l l ), Al C oul thard( track coach and tra iner ),David j . Perdios ’

80

(baseba l l ), john RolandPra irie ’

79 (soccer), EleenaZhelezov

’

95 ( tra ck andfield), and the 1 976 N a t iona lC hampionship Men

’s SoccerTeam . There were plentyof o ther evening act ivi tiestaking place on campus t ochoose from aswel l . Some

a lumni chose t o take in theBrandei s Ensemb le Thea ter’sproduct ion of One Flew

Over the C uckoo ’

s N est,

whi le o thers a t tended thegradua te composersperformance fea turing newworks of the Lydian S tringQuartet andBoston’s finestfreelancers . The evening

cu lmina tedwi th a s tudent/a lumni dance sponsoredbythe Hawa i ’i Ohana C lubtha t was enjoyed by a ll .

A breakfas t sponsoredby thea thlet ics department kickedoff Sundaymorning andwas fol lowedby themen’sandwomen

’s soccer teams ’home games aga ins t theWashington Univers i ty .

C rowds of s tudents anda lumni a lso traveled to theshores of the C harlesRiver in C ambridge,Ma ssachuset ts

,t o meet the

Brandei s crew team and

enjoy the HeadOf TheC harles Rega t ta . N ext year’sHomecoming fest ivi t ies area lready being p lanned.

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W ienWel comeBack Recept ion

W ien Alumni Ho st Committ eeBhaska r Banerjee '

8 8 , Pet ia To pa lova ’

99 ,

J anet Akyuz Ma t t e i’

6 5 , Ko fi Gya si 79 ,

Andres S ant os '

0 0 , Be la La b ovit c h '

8 7 , and

Mona S eno'

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The Alumni Associa t ionand the Alumni Admiss ionsC ounci l sponsored N ewS tudent Send-O ffs for theC lass of 2005 . In addi t ion t ointroducing the s tudents t ofel low classma tes and upperc lass students , this eventhelps us t o educa te themearly about the Universi tyand i ts a lumni . Thi s i sthe firs t s tep toward theirrea l iza tion tha t the BrandeisUnivers i ty communi ty i slarge and support ive andspec ia l . We thank a ll ofthe a lumni who a t tendedwi th offers t o help thes tudents and their fami l iesduring thi s ma jor transi t ion .

Laurie , J ac q ui '0 5 , and

D avid Go ldman o f Ca lifo rnia

The Alumni Associa t iona l so recognizes thegenerosi ty of the fol lowinghos t s : Toronto C lubPres ident Mark Surchin ’

78 ;

Arizona C lub Pres ident RonLowe

’

69 ; C a l i fornia host sIke and jeanet teWinstonGoodman

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54 and jef f ’79andTsi lah So lomon ’

80

Burman; C olorado ’s host sStuart andTrudi L ina s ,pa rents of Beth ’

0 4 ; in

C onnect icut, M ichaelKligfeld

’

63 ; South Floridaho st s Gi l ’

79 (C lubPres ident ) and L indaMoskowi tz ’

8 0 Drozdow;C hic ago/Mi lwaukee

’

s hos t sShei la andHarvey Medvin

,

pa rent s of Arla MedvinS i lvers tein ’

8 8 ; Ba lt imoreC lub Pres ident BarbaraKirsner Berg

’

76 ;

Ma ssachuset ts ’s hos t s

Former W ienScholarAppointed Turk ish Ambassadorto the United States

President Geo rgeW. BushwelcomesTurkish Amb a ssa do r0 . Fa ruk Logog lu

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63 and his

wife, Mimi, t o Wa sh ingt on,DC .

S teven ’

82 andLoriBerman

’

83,

’

86 ,

Gans, and C indy andDoug Pol la rd, parent s ofAndrew ’

0 5 ; inM inneso ta ,joAnn andEric ’

70

Pa s terna ck ; N orthern and

C entra l N ew jersey's hos t sLarry andMargie RachelsonSamuel s ’

75 ; N ew YorkC i ty ’s hos t s DannyIehrman ’

64 andVic N ey’

81;

O . Faruk Logoglu ’

63

became the new Turkishambassador t o the Uni tedS ta tes on September 27 .

In his sta tement t oPresident GeorgeW. Bush,Logoglu conveyed thesadness of the Turkish

Long Is land C lub Pres identja ime ’

86 and S taceyEzra t ty; Wes tches terC ounty ’s hos ts Deni se andGa ry Rosenberg, parent s ofjanna

’

02 ; Phi ladelph ia/Southern N ew jersey ’s ho st sKenneth ’

77 and E i leenS chna l l ’78 W inter; Texashost s Mark E . jacobs ’

78

and jerrad and Sara C a st leBloom ’

94 ; inWa sh ington,

DC , janice RovnerFeldman

’

85 , and in Sea t t le,Beth L inderWei sberg ’

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people over the September1 1 a t tacks

,and rea ffirmed

Turkey 's coopera t ion in thefight aga ins t terrorism.

Pres ident Bush thenwel comedLogoglu t oWashington,

and ci ted thelongs tanding friendship ofthe two na t ions .

Logoglu s tudied a t Brandei sas a Wien Scholar from1 960 to 1 963 . Hema jored inpol i ti ca l science. He earned

hisMA . and Ph .D. fromPrinceton.

Formore informa t ion on

Logoglu andTurkey, go t owww. turkey.org.

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Logoglu earnedhighmarksa t the Turkish ForeignMinis try, where hewasundersecretary. Accordingt o the TurkishDa ily N ews,’

Logoq was a perfectcho i ce for the t op ForeignM ini s try job and performed

wel l in cri t ica l t imes . Hewas in charge of a verysuccessfu l mini s try, which[had]t o handle seriousforeign po l icy cha l lenges ina vo la t i le region.

”

Alan N . Braverman’

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Former GSIEF G raduate nowBu lgar ia ’s Deputy Pr ime M inisterandM inister of the Economy

At only 3 1 , Vassi lev i s now of reforming the Bulgarianone of themos t powerful economy and improving i tsmen in Bulgaria . He ga ined standardof l iving.

recogn i t ion in the countryover the pas t two years,according to an art i cle inThe N ew York Times,

“ through a program in whichBulgarians working abroadcommented on governmentreforms . ” He, a long wi thhis fel lowmembers of thenewly appo inted cabinet,has adopted the tough task

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A Report fromtheExecut iveVice Pres identand Ch ief Operat ing Officer

and pro jects are genera ting agrea t dea l of exci tement onthe Brandeis campus .

Peter B . FrenchExecut ive Vi ce Pres identand C hief Opera t ing O fficer


Brandeis Univers ityFinanc ia l H igh l ights

Yea rs Ending June 3 0

To ta l Unres tri c tedRevenuesTota l Unres tric tedExpenses (A )

Principa l sources of unrestri cted revenueN et tui tion,

fees,and auxi l iary enterprises

C ontribut ionsSponsoredprograms, grants, and contractsN et assets relea sed from res tri c t ions

Principa l uses of unrestri ctedexpensesEduca t iona l andgenera lAuxi l iary enterprises

Poo led Endowment FundsBook va lueMarket va lue

Univers i tyDebt

Universi ty AssetsUnivers i ty Liab i l i t ies

Universi ty N et AssetsUnres trictedTemporarily Res tric tedPermanent ly Res tri c ted

(A ) Opera t ing expenses before extraordinary i tems .

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B i rths andAdopt ions

Brandeis Parentls) Child ’s NamePeter D . MagnusStephenKelley

Shari Beth Gersten

November22, 2000

February 9. 2001March 9, 2001

Joshua Zackary March 25.2001EilanNadav

MicheleAdrienne


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Marr iages and Unions

Julie Steres to JackConnellaBruce Zamost to DonnaCrossJulie Brenmanto IrwinSchreimanRobert Todd FleishertoGretchenCamilleStoverEilat Larisa Gubbay to Jerald AbramsJeanneKorenberg toAllenShapiroEllenSeidmanto David SmoklerTerrenceGargiulo, ’

90,toCindy Jo BrodskyJonathanLasstoKarl SchlessingerMeredithAdamstoMichael GarrahGregory B. Bland to StephanieWeissRobert S . Lebowitz toYael FederbushKarenChambers toTimothy FarrellBeth J . KaulmantoRick SnyderBradleyFosterRolhenberg toZdenka KlimtovaHeidi A. Osgood toAri KaufmanAllysonAllano toAaronSee '

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Daniela Gil toAvi Rosenblatt ’

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TamaraWainer toVictorPoniesMelissa Dionto Elliot FromeElaine BarontoBrett CarverMeganHealy to Ronald James RayeJinmei Xuto David KircheisBari Kleiner to EytanEliasJeffreyR. Rosenleld toMindyOberskiAmyM. Bossto DaveSmalarzLaura O. HackertoAdamGreenwaldBethanyWeinsleinto Joel Friedlander ’

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Mic ha e l Kivort '

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a friend, and a ll fivememb ers of t he GoGos

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Jona t han Lass ’

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Wendy Re imer'

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Reuben Libe r'

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Tammie Min '

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Themov ie A Beau tiful Mind, whi ch wonfour of the eight Academy Awardsfor which i t was nomina ted, depi c tsthe story ofma thema t i c ian and N obelLaurea te john N a sh andhis l i felongba t t le wi th parano id s chi zophrenia .

Unfortuna tely, N a sh 's t ime a t Brandeiswasmetaphori ca l ly lef t on the cu t t ingroom floor.

From 1 965 t o 1 96 7 N a sh was invi ted bythe Brandei s ma th department to spendsome t ime here in the unusua l posi t ion(for Brandei s ) of a researcherwi thou ttea ching responsibi li t ies . For tui tous ly, Iwas a lso a t Brandei s during those yearsas a s tudent wi thou t any respons ib i l i t ies .In themovie

,tha t period, asnear as

I can figure, co inci ded wi th the s tretchduring whi ch N a sh Spends mos t of hist ime s i t t ing on hisporch in hisMr. Rogerscardigan, du t i fully seda t ing himsel f wi thpres cribed medi ca t ions .

According t o R i chard S . Pa la i s, pro fes sor

emeri tus ofma thema t i cs a t Brandei s,who

s t i l l keeps in touch wi th N ash, “At firs t

i t looked l i ke hewasma king excellentprogres s towards recovery during his yeara t fa c t he wro te an excel lentpaper tha t appeared in theAnna ls

ofMa thema ti cs,usua l ly cons idered the

mos t pres t igious of a ll ma thema t i csjourna ls . Unfortuna tely, towards the endof the academi c year he dec ided tha the did not want t o cont inue tak ing the

B ra nde is Rev iew

DesignDirectorCharles DunhamDesignerE lisabeth Rosen’

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Coordinatorof Productionand Distribution

Assistant Editor SandraConradAudreyGriffin

ReviewPhotographerEditorial Assistant Mike LovettVeronica BlacquierAlumni Editor.ClassNotesKarenC irrito

medi c ines tha t hadbeen pres cribed toamel iora te hismen ta l problems , and a f tertha t he rapidly wen t downh i l l . ”

I wonder i f I ever saw him . You wouldthink tha t if I had

,Iwould remember

a man obsess i vely working ou t endlessfenestra l ca lcula t ions and ra i ling a timagined oppressors . Yet . .how sha l l Iput were

, during tho se years,so many Brandeisians di splaying .

unique behaviors .

There was the fel lowwho wasnever seen,

in or ou t of class,wi thou t his seven- foo t

sta f f; the young woman who rou t inelyfro li cked barefoo t abou t campus dressedin a diaphanous gown ,

sca t tering rosepeta ls in her wake; the youngmanwho ea ch day crumbled a pa ckage ofcra ckers into a gla s s ofmi lk , added severa lteaspoons of sugar, covered the concoc t ionwi th a napk in and ca ched i t in the ba ckof a cubby t o be consumed when i t hada t ta ined the proper ripeness; the s tudentwho obsess i vely res cued earthworms frompuddles (a l though now tha t I think ofi t,hemay have been the same guy

wi th themi lk ); the diabet i c s tudent whoperiodi ca lly a l lowed himself t o go intoinsul in sho c k as recrea t ion; the s tudentwho ra i sed a flo ck of chi c kens in hissu i te in Ea s t unt i l the hea l th departmentcooked his goo se; and the two roomma teswho spontaneous ly launched in to b i zarrepsychodramas wh i le passing t o class, onelying in the snow wh i le the o ther stood

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over him bark ing, Get up, soldier ! Getup, so ldier ! ” Those are among the ones Ipersonally encountered on a regular ba s i s .

In addi t ion,a qui ck and imprec ise survey

of o ther alumni /st affmembers a t Brandei srevealed tha t eccentri c s popula ted thecampus duringmo s t decades of theUniversi ty ’s exi s tence. Therewas thefel low who wore only short s anda T- shir t

,

indoors andout , wi th no regard to thebrutali ty of thewea ther; he even gaveadmi s s ions tours of the campus dressedtha t way in the dead ofwinter. There wasthe youngmanwho was o f ten seen a t

night, reading under a tree in near- to ta ldarknes s . Somemay recal l the student whowould use only one part i cular ba throom on

campus , noma t terwha t . Ano ther studentspecia l i zed in ba lancing umbrella s onhis fa ce . Many alumni w i ll rememberthe fellowwho, having lost the use ofhiswindow shade, met icu lously coveredevery square- inch of hispanes wi th bla ckmarket

,thereby rendering the entire dorm

nearly uninhab i table for a week, due t o theoverpowering s tench ofmarker fumes .

There were no doub t Others,including

fa cul ty, and i t migh t be fun t o shareyourmemories of o ther beau t i ful minds a tBrandei s . I would prefer ema i ls

, bu t i f youmus t submi t your reco llec t ionwri t ten ona window

, plea semake i t a smal l one.


The Course of Tragedy

S ept emb er 1 1 At t a c ks,Afterma t h Are Focus o f

N ew C ourse

Kanan Makiya,the Iraq i

di ssident whosedenuncia tion of Saddam

Hussein reverbera tedaround the world in the1980 5 and 1 990 3 , isco teaching a course a t theUnivers i ty thi s spring onthe terroris t a t tacks anda fterma th of September 1 1

,

200 1 . The new course,

September 1 1 : Roo t s andAfterma th

, unvei ledby theUnivers i ty fourmonths tothe day a fter the a t tacks,is bel ieved to be one ofthe fi rs t of i ts kind t o beofficia l ly incorpora ted into a

univers i ty curriculum in the

Uni ted S ta tes .

Pres ident Jehuda Reinharz,Ph .D.

’

72,sa id the

Univers i ty hopes the coursewi ll provide a deta i ledcontextua l ba se for studying

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the tragedy.

”Future

genera t ions wi l l ponderthese cold-blooded a t tacksmuch in the same waypeople have examinedearl ierworld-a l teringca lami t ies

,sa idReinharz .

”Thi s course and o thers canplay an important ro le aswe a t tempt t o more fu l lycomprehend the horror oftha t tragi c day.

”

The course was crea ted a fters tudents expressed interestin having an academi cmeans of addressingmyriadques t ions and concerns leftin the wake of September 1 1 .

Makiya,adjunc t professor

ofMiddle Eas tern S tudies,brings his own di s tinctperspective t o the course.

He was born in Baghdad and

i s the authormos t recentlyof The Rock : A SeventhC entury Ta le of [erusa lem(See

”Books ” sect ion) .

Pub l ished in N ovember, thebook examines the rootsof the rela t ionship between

D ig it

Lib ra ries Rece ive Grant

The Brandei s Univers i tyLibraries have received oneof 1 8 prestigious 200 1N a tiona l Leadership Grantsawardedby the Ins ti tuteofMuseum and Library

izing Daumier

Arabs and Jews . I t iscentered on the bui ldingof theDome of the Rock,one of the world’s mos tbi t terly contes ted pieces ofrea l es ta te and the locusof the common ancestry ofJuda i sm

,C hri s tiani ty, and

Is lam.

Makiya a l so wro te Republi cof Fear: The Pol i ti cs ofModern Ira q ( 1 990 ) andC ruel ty and Silence: War,Tyranny, Uprising and theArab World The

la t ter,highly cri t ica l of

Hussein ’s regime, brought

Makiya interna t iona laccla im .

Makiya i s co t eaching thenew coursewi thDanielTerri s

,director of the

Interna t iona l C ent er forEthics

,Just ice and Pub l i c

Li fe . According t o Terri s,the course i s an explora t ionof the antecedents

,meaning,

Services for Preserva tion orDigi t iza tion pro jects .

The Brandeis Librariespro ject wi l l crea te a digi ta limage co l lect ion of nearlyl i thographs origina l ly

crea ted byHonoreDaumier( 1 80 8 The images wi l lbe ful ly ca ta loged and

and poss ible futurerepercuss ions ofwha thappened on September 1 1

,

through the perspectives ofpo l i t i cs

,his tory

,l i tera ture

,

the arts,rel igion,

regiona ls tudies

,and o ther

di scip l ines .

The course i s a combina t ionof lectures anddi scuss ions

,

wi th gues t speakers fromthe Brandei s facul ty andfrom outside the Universi ty

Topics include September 1 1and i ts a fterma th

,loya l ty

anddi ssent in wartimeAmeri ca

,the terroris t

mindset : perspect ives froml i tera ture

,Islam and i ts

radica l variants,civi l

l ibert ies andhomelandsecuri ty

,and a rt is t ic

responses t o ca tastrophe .

searchable via the Brandei sonl ine ca ta log.

A rela tedWebs i te wi l l putthe l i thographs into theirhis torica l and sociologi ca lcontext for students andscho lars throughout theworld.

Live fromBrandeis

S chneider i s teachingundergradua tes in TheAmerican Voter

,which wi l l

examine changes in thena t ion’s electora te s ince1 960

,parti cu larly the

sources of uni ty anddivis ionin the country.

A Sound Dec is ion

C ha sa low ReceivesFromm C ommission

Top ics scheduledfordis cussion are: taxes

,

spending and the defici t;race and a ffirma tive a ction;rel igion,

abort ion and singlei ssue po l i t i cs ; the gendergap; foreign po l i cy; and the20 00 election (how dividedis the war on

terrorism (how uni ted i sAmeri ca ? )

S tudents wi l l prepare i ssuebriefs

,eva lua te campa igns,

and ana lyze elect ions .

Schneider i s one of thecountry’s leading po l i t i ca lcommenta tors . He jo inedC N N in 199 1 and i sregularly fea turedon thenetwork ’s Inside Pol i ti csprogram. He coau thoredTheC onfidence Gap : Business,La bor and Government inthe Publi c Mindwi thSeymourMartin Lipset . He

haswri t ten on po l i ti cs forsome of the country ’s ma jorperiodica ls

,including The

N ewRepubl ic andTheA tlanti c Mon thly

, and i s

The cha ir of Brandei s ’smus ic department wasselected among a poo l ofmore than 20 0 applicantsna tionwide . A to ta l of 13compo sers were chosen. The

commission i s des igned t o” s trengthen compos i tion and

to bring contemporaryconcert mus ic closer tothe publ i c

,

”a ccording t o

the Founda t ion a t HarvardUnivers i ty .

W illiam S c hneider ’

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In addi t ion t o his ba chelorof arts degree from Brandeis ,Schneider has a Ph .D. in

pol i t i ca l s cience fromHarvardUnivers i ty, wherehe taught in theDepartmentof Government . He heldan Interna tiona l Af fa irsFel lowship from the

C ounci l on ForeignRela tions and a N a t iona lFel lowship from the HooverIns t i tut ion a t S tanfordUniversi ty . From 1 990 t o

1995 he was the SpeakerThomas P. O ’

N eill Jr.

C hasalow,who teaches

compos i t ion and a l so directsBEAMS lBrandeis ElectroAcous ti c Mus ic S tudio ), sayshe wi l l use the award t owri te an orches tra piecefor the Bo stonModern

Orches tra Pro ject . Bes t

Vi si t ing Professor ofAmeri can Po l i t ics a t Bos tonC ol lege .

O thers t o ho ld the FredandRi ta R ichman

Di s tingu i shedVis i tingProfessorship a t Brandei s areAnn Lewi s

,the former

director of communi ca t ionsand counselor t o Pres identBi l l C l inton; Boston Globeco lumnis tDavid Shribman;former N ew York MayorEdwardKoch; and formerTexas Governor AnnR ichards . Each has spenta semes ter teaching in theDepartment of Po l i ti cs .


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R is ing to theOccas ion

Pet sko Elec t ed t o IOM

Gregory Fetsko, the Gyu laandKa t ica Tauber Professorof B iochemi s try andC hemis try, anddirector,Rosenst iel Basi c Medi ca lSciences Research C enter, i s

G rego ry Fet sko

Nouvel le Vague

S c ient ist sDiscover N ewWave Pa t t ern, OpeningN ew Rea lm in N on-Linea rC hemist ry

Brandei s scient is ts havedi scoverednew wavepa t terns when the BelousovZhabo t insky (BZ) react ion,

one of the mos t s tudiedosci lla ting systems , i sintroduced into a ”

reversemic roemulsion

,

”a mixture

of o il, wa ter, and asurfactant . Research by

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one o f 60 newly electedmembers of the N a t iona lAcademy of Sciences,Inst i tute ofMedi cine lIOM ) .The IOM was crea ted in1 970 under the

congressiona l charter of theN a t iona l Academy ofSciences .

Thi s is a di s t ingu ishedhonor for Pet sko

,who was

a l so elected to the N ASin 1 995 . As an associa tedorganiza t ion of the N AS,the IOM ident ifies concernsinmedica l care

,research

,

and educa t ion and securesthe services ofmembersof appropria te profess ionst o examine po l i cyma t tersrela t ing t o publ ic hea l th .

N ewmembers are electedby act ive members and arechosen for theirma jorcontributions t o hea l th andmedic ine or to rela ted fields

Irving Eps tein,professor of

chemi s try andVolenN a tiona l C enter forC omplex Sys tems, andPos tdoctora l ResearchAssociate Vladimir K. Vanag,

publi shed in the October 26i ssue of Science

,revea l s

an inwardly ro ta t ing spira lwave in thi s modifica t ion of

the 8 2 reaction.

These phenomena provideinsights into periodic wavesof chemica l a ct ivi ty, whichpara l lel bio logica lphenomena such as nerve

By us ing yeas t geneti cs andbiochemi ca l techniques,Fetsko has helped t odi scover tha t mos t rela tedenzymes ca ta lyze simi larchemi ca l react ions .

Yeas t has a systemwhichi s s imi lar in mo st higher

impu lse transmi ss ion,circadian rhythms, or thebea ting heart . S ince periodicphenomena in l ivingsys tems are chemica l inna ture, s tudying thesereact ions provides a bet terunderstanding of thechemi ca l andneura losci l la tors in organi sms .Previous research foundonly outwardly ro ta tingspira l waves .

C ristin C arr

By s tudying variants of theB2 rea ction, Eps tein and

Vanag have opened a newrea lm in non l inear chemi s trytha t may lead t o a bet terunders tanding of pa t terns inphys ica l, chemica l, andbiologica l sys tems . “

It’

s been

about 3 0 years since thedi scovery of spira l pa t ternsin the Belousov—Zhabo t inskyrea ction

,

" sa idEpstein.

“S ince

then ro ta t ing spira ls andwaves have been observedin a va riety of physica l,chemica l

,andbio logi ca l

react ion-di ffusion systems .

Fetsko,whose research

involves three-dimensiona ls tructures of pro teins andtheir biochemica l function,

is currentlyworking ona col labora t ive pro jectstudying the evolut ion of

enzymes, pro teins made ofcha ins of bui lding b locksca l led amino acids

,whi ch

harness the power ofchemica l react ions . Theya ccelera te and fa ci l i ta tetasks tha t would o therwi serequ ire an enormousamount of energy .

Pet sko’

s research offersins igh t into how enzymesevo lve andprovides a bet terunders tanding of how an

organism adapts to na tura lvaria t ions . Researchersinvo lved in the pro jectincludeDagmar Ringe, theLuci l le P. Markey Professorof B iochemi s try andC hemis try; Pa tri cia C .

Babbi t t,an a ssocia te

professor of pharmaceut i ca lchemis try a t the Univers i tyof C a l i fornia a t SanFrancisco ; and John A . Gerl t

,

an enzymo logi s t a t theUniversi ty of I l l inoi s a tUrbana -C hampa ign.

Honor of a Lifet ime

S honkoff Appo int ed a sPrest ig ious N a t iona lAssoc ia t e of t he N a t iona lAc ademies

Jack P. Shonkoff,M .D.

,dean

of The Heller Schoo l forSocia l Pol i cy andManagement andGingoldPro fessor of Human

Development and Socia lPo l icy, has recent ly beennamed to a l ifet imeappointment as a N a tiona lAssocia te of the N a tiona lAcademies . Thi s pres t igioushonor was crea tedby theN a t ional Research C ounci land Inst i tute ofMedi cineof the N a tiona l Academyof Sciences t o recogn izeindiv idua l s whose

By crea ting a varia t ion ofthe B2 react ion we havebeen able t o producesta t ionary pa t terns ca l ledTuring structures aswel las severa l kinds of pa t ternsandwaves no t previouslyobserved in simpler

contribut ions to the workof the Academies arecons idered tru lyextraordinary . Shonkoff i sone of the 3 25 selec tedfor the inaugura l group ofhonorees from amongthousands of di s t ingu ishedscho lars and publ i c leaderswho have served on theboards

,commi t tees

,and

s tudies of the N a t iona lAcademies .

At i ts meet ing onFebruary 7, 200 1 , the

C ounci l of the N a tiona lAcademy of Sciencesini t ia ted a new ”

N a t iona lAssocia tes program t o

recognize extraordinarycontribut ions to theN a t iona l Academiesthrough pro bono service t oN a t iona l Research C ounciland Inst i tute ofMedic ineprograms .

chemica l systems , sta tedEpstein. Severa l of thesepa t terns are thought to playa role in bio logi ca ldevelopment .

The Turing s tructuresinvolve a form of

nano techno logy, wherebydroplets ofwa ter sma l lerthan bio logi ca l cel ls and

Many dedi ca ted individua l sserve wi thou t compensa t ionon commi t tees of theN a tiona l Academies . Thework of the Academies inadvising government andthe publi c wouldno t beposs ible wi thou t thi sdedi ca ted commi tment ofexperts . The purpose of theN a t iona l Associa tesdes igna tion i s forma l ly t orecognize t he extraordinaryservice of some of theseindividua l s .

Shonkoff served as cha irof the Board on C hi ldren

,

Youth,and Fami l ies a t the

Ins t i tute ofMedi c ine andthe N a t iona l ResearchC ounci l/N a t iona l Academy

An ant ispira l in t he 8 2

rea ct ion

conta ining the componentsof the B2 sys tem inc ludingonly a handfu l of ca ta lys tmo lecules

,were di spersed

into the oi l and stabi l ized bythe surfactant t o form the

microemulsion. Epstein and

Vanag were able t o controlthe variety of pa t terns bytweaking the concentra tionand s ize of the wa ter

of Sciences from 1 99 7 to

2000 . He a l so has servedas a member of the Panelon C hi ldC are Po l i cy, theS teering Group for theN a t iona l Forum on the

Future of C hi ldren and

Fami l ies,the C ommi t tee on

the Assessment of Fami lyVio lence Interventions

,and

the Roundtab le on HeadS tart Research . Mos trecent ly, he cha ired theC ommi t tee on Integra t ingthe Science of EarlyC hi ldhoodDevelopment,whi ch produced the widelyaccla imed

,landmark report

,

From N eurons to

N eighborhoods.

C ristin C arr

droplets . Epstein expla instha t the wa ter droplet senclos ing the B2 reactantsdi ffuse muchmore s lowlythanmo lecules in the o i l,which provides amechani sm formakingthese pa t terns . Theinteraction between thenanodrOplet s plays animportant part in thebehavior of the react ionand resul ts in the inwardlyro ta ting Spira l waves .

— C ristin C a rr

5 Brandei s Review

Fever ish Search

Thi s year certa in regionsin As ia have experiencedhigh incidences of denguefever tha t may be causedbyoptimummosqui to breedingcondi tions . The needfora va ccine has never beengrea ter.

D ona ld S . S hepa rd

— C ristin C arr

6 Brandeis Review

Shepard and Suaya , a Ph.D.

candida te a t The Hel lerSchoo l, traveled t o Ho C hiM inh C i ty as part of aninterna t iona l conference .

C onvenedby TheRockefel ler Founda tion and

the Interna tiona l VaccineIns t i tu te, the conferencewashostedby the C hi ldren’sHosp ita l number one inVietnam and the Pas teurIns t i tute ofHo C hi M inhC i ty .

Success by Des ign

shif ting the focus visua l ly,wi th l ight, a ctors , andwi thmovement and shape.

”

Over 90 percent of Brandeis ’sset , costume, and l ight ingdes ign gradua tes are workingsuccessful ly on andoff

Broadway, a s ta tis t ic tha tcontinues t o del ight Eigst i .

”When I firs t came here,I

rea l ly thought I’dbe tra iningdesigners who wou ldworkin regiona l thea ter. It ’s beena big surprise t o me they’vea lmost all endedup in N ewYork .

”

Eigst i became director ofthea ter design a t Brandeisin 1 989, dur ing a successfulcareer in N ew York designing10 to 1 5 plays a year. He

is one of the country’s mostrevered thea ter professiona lsandeduca tors . His scenicdesign work, which spansfour decades

,is described

inArno ldAronson’s book,

American Set Design. For 19

years, he taught part- time

in N YU’

sdesign program,

where he formedhis ideasabout design educat ion.

Eigst i’

s approach focuses lesson art skills than i t doeson tra ining students toco l labora te wi th a stagedirector.

I t ’s no t tha t we dimini sh art,

he says . It ’s very important .

A wa lk through the designs tudios of the SpingoldThea ter C enter revealsE igst i

’

s phi losophy a t work .

Sma l l sketches taped on thewa l ls of individua l s tudiosrevea l a range of drawingski lls

,from ba sic to more

advanced. Model s of setsres ting on s tands are lovinglydetai led, yet fragi le— t inyworks of art designed t oserve a larger vision.


7 Brande i s Review

Lucy S t einit z, MA .

’

7 4

S teini tz speaks fromfirsthand experience— she

hasworked for the past

— Marjorie Lyon

They s tartedwi th twovo lunteers in a completevacuum The desert is a

The Ca t ho lic AID S Ac t iono rganiza t ion in N amib ia

8 Brandeis Review


Duo jinWang'

0 5 and

Bryan Raut enberg'

0 5


Wa ltham’s F inest

20 0 1 S t roum S cho la rsS t a rt First Yea r a t B randeis

P ioneer Endowment

S t o ll Gift Est a b lishes FirstC ha ir in Israe l S t udies int he Unit ed S t a t es

The Karl,Harry, andHelen

S tol l C ha ir in Israel S tudiesis being crea ted t o develop

Pu rg ing Poverty

Oxfam C ha llenge C licks event , celebri ty appea rance,w it h S t udent s or a fea tured spo t in a

popularmedia venue.

Ben Brandze l

— Marjorie Lyon

-Donna DesrochersThe endowed cha ir i s a l so atribute to the S to l l fami ly.

Harry andKarl S to l l came


Centerp iece

Mandel Gift t o Est ab lishC ent er fo r S t udies inJew ish Educ a t ion

Brandei s is es tab l ishing aC enter for S tudies in Jewi shEduca t ion,

thanks t o a gi ftfrom theMandel SupportingFounda t ions of C leveland,Ohio . The center isdedi ca ted t o advancing

S ha ron Fe iman-N emser

Letter to the Ed i tor

I very much enjoyed readingabout Dr. C unningham’s bustrip in the recent issue ofthe BrandeisReview.

In 1965 about 20 Brandei sundergradua tes spent thesummer working in a

Southern C hri s t ianLeadership C onference vo terregis tra t ion pro ject in thedeep south . We tookcommercia l buses south t o


Drawing on theconsiderable expert ise ofBrandei s Univers i ty inJuda i c studies and educa tion,thi s innova tive new venturewi l l become a leading centerfor research and professiona ldevelopment by combiningsystema t i c s tudy of Jewisheduca t ion wi th modelprograms for Jewi sheduca tors

,

” sa id Pres identIchuda Reinharz .

”The

Mandel bro thers,Jack

, Joe,andMort, have once aga indemons tra ted their pro foundvision andhope for Jewisheduca t ion in N orth

Atlanta for a two -weekorienta t ion (wherewe metDr. King) before spreadingout t o rura l countiesthroughou t South C arol inafor the res t of the summer, a1 2-week period.

Four of uswere assignedt o Kershaw C ounty, a rura larea about an hour ea stof C o lumbia . We stayedin homes of loca l people,supported indirectly by ablack church in the countysea t of C amden. As ide fromregi s tering vo ters, we

Ameri ca . The centerwi l lbu ild on the Mandel C ha irin Jewish Educa t ion,

currently heldby SharonPeiman-N emser. The cha irwas es tabl ished a t Brandeisand is the first of i ts k inda t a nonsectarian ins ti tut ionof higher educa t ion inAmeri ca .

The field of Jewisheduca t ion needs a pla cewhere scho lars andpra ct i tioners

,researchers

and educa t iona l leaders cancome together to study,invent

,and assess powerful

educa t iona l programs andpra ct i ces l inked t ocompel l ing visions of Jewisheduca t ion and informedbynew unders tandings ofteaching and learning . Thi sis my vis ion for the center, ”sa idPeiman-N emser.

The estab l ishment of thecenter comes a t a cri t ica l

integra ted a thea ter and arestaurant in C amden, wererun out of two sma l l townsby county sherif fs , endedupin ja i l a few times , were shota t by a car ful l of whi te fo lks,and learned a tremendousamount about communi tyand racism. During tha tsummer— the firs t year inwhich the Vo ting RightsAc t was in effect— morethan county residents

t ime for Jewish educa t ion.

Besides a na tionwideshortage of qua l ified Jewi sheduca tors a t a ll levels

,there

i s a pressing need for bas icknowledge abou t thecharacter

, qua l i ty, andimpac t of Jewi sh educa t ionand the pro fess iona ldevelopment of Jewisheduca tors .

The center wi l l,among

o ther things, conductstudies of teaching andlearning in Jewi sheduca tion; develop modelprograms for Jewisheduca tors

,and st imula te

di s cussion anddeba te aboutthe purposes , processes, andout comes of Jewi sheduca tion broadly defined.


regi s tered to vote for thefirst t ime. Wewent doorto door working to promotethi s effort .

Formos t of us thi s wasour firs t direct intera ctionwi th racism and povertyand a pivo ta l experiencein our l ives . I wouldbeinteres ted to hear fromanyone who part i cipa ted intha t summer’s event s .

S incerely,

Bi l l Kornrich ’

6 7

akc [email protected]

Ra sha dWilliams '

02

Scoreboard Roundup

C enterfielder Jim Freethey'

02

was honored as the UAA

MVP andwas a firs t teamAll -Associa tion selection.

Jo ining him on the firs tteamwere starter TomMcShane

’

03,thirdbaseman

Mi keDowdy ’02, and firs t

ba semanDanMa cintosh '

0 4 .

Wi l l iams , an Ameri canstudies ma jor

,is the a ll- t ime

leading scorer in Brandei sbasketba l l hi s tory wi thcareer points,

sha t tering a mark tha t hadstood s ince 1958 . He was

named as a firs t team AllAssocia tion select ion for thefourth consecut ive seasonby the head coaches in theUnivers i ty Athleti cAssocia t ion. He averagedpoints and rebounds .

Twenty- four teams and 213runners competed a t themeet .

J ames Sp irakis

Marx, in her firs t appearancea t the N C AAs, swam a

time of in the


S usan Lanser

A Wea lth of FeministScholarsh i p

Women’s S tudies has a

specia l mi ss ion t o changethe world. If the field i st o work

,i t ’s because i t

makes change— no t only forwomen

,but for a ll people .

”

Meet Susan Lanser:pro fessor of Engl i sh andcompara tive l i tera ture,a ffi l ia te member of the

Department of Romanceand C ompara t ive Li tera ture,andBrandei s ’s new cha ir ofwomen’s s tudies .

Lanser replaces sociologyprofessor Shula Reinharz,Ph .D.

’

77, who headed the

program for nine years andi s the founding direc torof theWomen’s S tudiesResearch C enter (WSRC ),


which houses theWomen’s

S tudies Scho lars Programand the Hada ssahInterna tiona l ResearchC enter on JewishWomen.

The Program and the C enterare dis t inct enti ties

,says

Lanser, bu t share a commonmi ssion.

”The program i s

the degree-

grant ing uni t ,whi le the C enter does more

ou treach . Bu t we’

re bothcommi t ted t o inclus ive andtransforma t ive scho larship.

”

At the moment,the program

offers jo int master’s degreeswi th nine di fferentdepartments aswel l as anundergradua te certifica te .

Last year, a gradua teco l loqu ium series waslaunched

,and the Hewlet t

Founda tion issued a grantt o crea te a fa cu l ty seminartha t wi l l shape the women’sstudies core curri culum .

In themonths ahead,Lanser

hopes to lay the groundworkfor s trengthening the

Subscr i pt ionD r ive

NWO S uppo rt s Resea rc hw it h ” Yea r of t he Journa l

The N a t iona l Women’sC ommi t tee

,whi ch has

ra isedmore than $70mi l l ion for Brandeis andi ts Libraries s ince theUnivers i ty ’s founding, hasmounted a specia l drivet o support research journa lsubscrip t ions for thel ibraries thi s year.

”The Year

program’s interdi scipl inaryroo ts . ”

Brandei s has a superbfacu l ty wi th extraordinarystrengths in feminis tscholarship . I hope t o bringpeople together from a ll

di scipl ines,so we can have

sus ta ined conversa tion,and

susta ined curricu lum and

research, ” she says .

Lanser was one of the firs tscho lars to teach women

'ss tudies a t the Universi tyofWis consin . She helpedestabl ish the field a tGeorgetown Univers i ty, andwas on the women

’s s tudiesfacu l ty a t the Universi ty ofMarylandwhi le she direc tedtha t schoo l ’s C ompara t iveL i tera ture Program.

of the Journa l campa ignwi l l ra ise opera ting fundsfor thi s purpose andaugment a $2 mi ll ionendowment the organiza t ionhas establ ished through i tsJourna l Guarantor Fund.

Journa ls are the primarymethod of communica tionamong researchers . TheBrandei s Libraries subscribeto print t i tles and

electronic journa ls .”1 very often read an arti clein a scientific journa l tha tgives me a new idea about

Lanset ’s publ i ca t ionsinclude The N arra tiveAc t ,whi ch applies feminis ttheory t o the ana lys is ofnarra tive form

,andF i c tions

ofAuthori ty : Women

Wri ters and N arra t ive Vo i ce,

an explora tion of the

s tra tegies in women’s novel s

across three centuries . She’sedi ted three o ther vo lumes

,

including a specia l journa li ssue onDiscip l iningFeminism! The Future ofWomen

'

s S tudies and anedi tion ofHelenMaria

Wi ll iams’

s 1 790 let ters onthe French Revolu tion. Her

la tes t work examines fema leint ima cies in the 1 8 thcentury.


how a bra in process mightwork

,

”expla ins John

Lisman, professor of b io logyandmember of the VolenN a t iona l C enter forC omplex Systems . ”

To

fo l low up on thi s idea,there wi l l inevi tably be 1 0key art ic les tha t I haveto read. Wi th luck

,these

might provide the key cluetha t wi l l tel l me whether1 am on the right track .

At t imes such as these, i t

Look Me inthe ID

Are YouAs Sma rt AsYou

Look OrDo You Lo o kSma rt erThanYouAre?

C an you judge howintel l igent someone is fromhis or her appearance ? Thesurpri sing answer i s ”

yes”

according t o a s tudyreported in the Februaryi ssue of Personali ty andSocia l Psychology Bulletin,

publ ished a t the Uni versi tyof Iowa

,conducted in part

by Les l ie Zebrowi t z, theManuel Yel len Professor ofSocia l Rela tions .

Using a da ta archive tha thad photographs of peoplea t severa l ages across thelife span aswel l as theirIQ tes t scores, psycho logi s tsZebrowi t z

,Judi th Ha l l and

N ora Murphy of

N ortheas tern Univers i ty,

is wonderful t o go t o thel ibrary and find exa ct ly thearti c les one is looking for.

”

The N a t iona l Women's

C ommi t tee has recognizedthe importance of journa l st o the facul ty from the

Universi ty’s earl ies t days,but rapidly ri s ing costs havemade i t difficul t for thelibraries t o keep up wi ththe need. Science journa lprices increa se about 1 0t o 1 2 percent per year,

andGi l l ian Rhodes of theUnivers i ty ofWesternAus tra l ia

,found tha t people

were able to judge therela tive intel l igence ofs trangers . Al thoughaccuracy was far fromperfect

,i t was above chance

when judging individua l sin chi ldhood

,puberty, and

their 3 0 5 .

How did thi s happen? Thejudges were cuedbya t tractiveness

,which was

pos i tively rela tedno t onlyt o how intel l igentindividua l s were perceivedto be

,but a l so t o their actua l

IQ scores .

The posi t ive rela t ionshipbetween a t tract iveness andperceived intel l igence i scons is tent wi th the wel lknown ”

a t tract iveness ha loeffect

,

”whi ch concludes

tha t humans a ssign posi tivetra i ts t o a t tra ct ive people.

How can themore surprisingposi tive rela t ionshipbetween a t tract iveness and

for ins tance,whi le the

a cqu i s i t ion budgets ofacademi c l ibraries rarelyincreasemore than five t oeight percent . The growingnumber of print journa l sand explosion of electroni cjourna l s fu rther s tretchesthe budget .

actua l IQ scores beexpla ined? For individua l sin puberty or their 3os,the rela t ionship was partlyexpla inedby socioeconomi cs ta tus (SES ) . Those fromlower SES ba ckgrounds wereless a t tract ive andhad lowerIQ tes t scores , whi ch couldbe the resu l t of fa ctors suchas poor nu tri t ion andhea l thcare . B iologica l factors a l soseemed t o play a ro le inpuberty . Those wi th fa cia lqua l i t ies tha t have beentheorized t o s igna l ”goodgenes ”— faces tha t aremore

symmetrica l ormore s imi lart o the typ ica l face— weremore a t tract ive andhadhigher IQ tes t scores .

Journa l Guarantor andLearned Research Journa l s(LRJ) are the N a t iona lWomen

’s C ommi t tee ’sprimary vehi c les for journa lsupport . The la t ter arepart i cu larly popu lar becausea modes t gi ft t o LRJ -50 )is recognizedwi th a sma l l ,handsome fol io bearing apersona l ized inscrip t ion of

the donor’s or honoree 's

name. Thousands of LRJsare presentedyearly to

Ma les cons ideredhighlya t tract ive as chi ldrenshowed a pos i t ive change inIQ a t ado lescence . S imi larly,fema les cons ideredhighlya t tra ct ive as adolescentsshowed a pos i t ive changein IQ when they reachedtheir 50 3 . These resu l tssugges t tha t, over time, thepos i tive expecta t ions heldfor a t tract ive boys andado lescent girl s are sel ffulfi l l ing.

But caut ion is advisedwhenjudging i f the person beforeyou i s an E ins tein or an

idio t . Al though people wereab le t o judge intel l igencemore accura tely when theyused a t tra ct iveness as aguide, the method is notexact . At tract iveness is onlymodes t ly rela ted t ointel l igence, and the processfa i ledwi th judging 1 8 -

year

o lds . This may be due t o thefact tha t many ado lescentsart ificia l ly enhance theira t tra ct iveness .

program speakers and tofriends and loved ones t omark a birthday, anniversary,memoria l

,or o ther occa sion .

For informa t ion on how t o

make a gif t t o Journa lGuarantor or LearnedResearch Journa l s, contactBonnie Lieberman

(78 1 -73 6 -4 1 63 ;

1 5 Brandeis Review

Tree House

Alumna S c ulpt o r C hosent o C rea t e Ornament fo r

Whit e HouseTree

WhenMa ine art is t DeborahKlotz Pari s ’

84 received anenvelope from theWhi teHouse in N ovember, sheset off on a brief

,but intense

research experience tha tculmina ted in the crea t ionof a very specia l C hri s tma sornament . The envelopeconta ined an invi ta t ion forKlotz Pari s to share herart is ti c ta lents wi th thecountry by designing anornament tha t wouldhangfrom theWhi te HouseC hri stmas tree .

The ca tch? Klo tz Pari swould have t o produce herwork of art in less thantwo weeks in order for i tto be in the ma i l by the

D avi d Pa ris ’

8 5 , Laura Bush , andD ebo ra h Klo tz Pa ris '

8 4

Top right : Klo t z Pa ris'

s

o rnament t ha t is now pa rt o f

t heWhit e House'

s permanenta rt co lle c t ion

1 6 Brandeis Review

Whi te House’s Thanksgivingdeadl ine . O ther art i s ts hadreceived their no ti ces asearly as September.

Thi s year 's Whi te HouseC hris tmas tree theme was

”A Home for the Ho l idays ,selectedby First Lady LauraBush. Klo tz Paris scouredtheMa ine Hi s tori ca l Societyand the Port landLandmarksSociety t o find an hi stori cMa ine home t o portray inminia ture

,and found the

perfect cho i ce in a sma l lpamphlet .

Loca tedonMun joy Hi l l inPort land

,an area inwhich

Klotz Pari s hersel f had livedin the 1 990 3 , the housewas bui l t in 1 845 by amariner named

,ironica l ly

enough, George Bush . Wha ts truck Klo tz Pari s more than

Klo tz Paris ’s fina l touchesincluded sma l l magnets onthe t in shel l fea turing thehouse’s trademark sprucetree and a depict ion of

John C urt is . Perhaps themos t important addi t ion tothe ornament is the secretno te wri t ten by Klotz Pari s ’s

the name,however

,was

learning his race— tha t Bushwas a pre

-C ivi l War,African

American landowner. She

a l so enjoyed learning tha tthe la ter owner of thehouse

,John C urtis

,made

and so ld spruce gum in

a successful bus iness ; thepopular hi s tory surroundingthe home gave i t extraappea l

8 -

year-olddaughter, ro l led

up and stuffed into thehouse pil low before i t wassewn shu t .

— Emily Dahl '

04

Wi th the aptly named

Bush C urt is house ashermodel

,Klotz Paris went

about crea t ing a minia ture .

Her ornament fea tures thehouse front in three images ,trans ferred onto fabri cwhi ch was then sewn and

s tuffed into a tiny houseshaped pil low. She formedan outer shel l by us ingsa lvaged pressed t in t o’

house”the pi l low on three

s ides and the t op, leavingthe bo t tom Open so tha tviewers could look up t o seethe suspendedpillow.

OnDecember 3 , when theC hri s tmas tree wasunvei led,Klo tz Pari s a t tended areception a t theWhi teHouse wi th her husband.

Fo l lowing i ts di sp lay on theWhi te House C hris tma s tree,Klo tz Pari s ’s meaningfulornament has now becomepart of theWhi te House'spermanent art co l lection.

Klo tz Pari s teaches a t theMa ine C o l lege of Ar t andspends one day a weektea ching a t theMa ssa chuset ts C ol lege ofArt , where she receivedherB .E.A . in sculp ture andherMF A in three dimens iona lfine arts . She says herexperience in researchinghi s toric homes for herornament made her fondlyreca l l her days developingcri t ica l thinking ski l ls andrevisioni s t resea rcha tt i tudes a t Brandei s . SaysKlotz Pari s

,When I

received theWhi te Houseinvi ta tion t o depict a

’his tori ca l ly prominent ’house

,my seemingly

dormant researchinclina t ions woke up; theresul ts a re inWashington.


A Marr iage MadeinGol d ing

When N ico le Umemo to ’

93

wro te in her cha t ty 1 997N ew Year

's let ter tha t giventhe arid landscape of hercurrent love l ife

,she was

” taking appl ica tions” for aboyfriend

,she wasmaking a

joke . Wel l , sort of.

N o t one t o advert ise, ort o accept a bl indda te fortha t ma t ter

,she was

intriguedwhenDonHindley, professor of po l i t i cs

C upid) who taughther Southeas t Asian po l i t icssome 1 0 years ago,responded t o her request .He describedTomWingfield

’

88 as”one ofmy bes t

student s,andone of the

bes t human beings I know.

Was she interested? ” Ta lk

Extra C red i t

Giddon S cho la rs a tB ra nde is

Two N ewton students areenro l led a t Brandei sUniversi ty thi s semes ter asrecip ients of the 200 0 -0 1

Ruth,Franklin andWi l liam

Giddon Scho larships . Theschola rships, whi ch a l lowexcept iona l high schoo ls tudents t o take a coursein the field of choi ce a t

1 8 B randei s Review

abou t sa fe— Wingfield l ivedin England andUmemo tol ived in Burma/Myanmar.

”So I agreed because, a fter a ll,you never know, she sayswi th an infect ious laugh .

”Because i t was ProfessorHindley

,I was t i ckled. I was

s imul taneous ly curious andcaut ious .”

According to Hindley, TomWingfield rea l ly s tood out

”his elegance, his interes ts ,andhis i conoclasm. Aftergradua t ion,

he went t oLondon Universi ty, Schoo lof Orienta l andAfricanS tudies (SOAS ) to earn a

ma s ter’s degree .

C o incidenta l ly, a fter fiveyears working as a journa l i s tin Sou thea s t As ia , Wingfieldwent on to accept a posi t ionlecturing a t the Universi tyof Leeds in northernEngland, the same place

Mic hae l Zap lin, Dr. D ona ldGiddon, Robert Gondo la , J r.

Brandei s,are given annua l ly

t o up to two students eachfrom N ewton andWel lesleyhigh schoo ls .

This year’s recipients areRobert Gondo la

, Jr. and

M ichael Zaplin o f N ewton.

Robert i s taking BeginningScu lpture

,andM i chael i s

enrol led in Introduct ion toAfro -Ameri can His tory.

The Giddon Scho larshipswere es tabl i shed a t BrandeisbyDonaldGiddon, Ph .D.

’

6 1,

TomW ingfie ld'

8 8 , Pro fesso r o fPolit icsDonHindley, and N icoleUmemo t o

'

93

tha t Hindley earned abachelor’s degree and agradua te teaching diploma .

Wingfield’

s dad is ArtW ingfield, Brandeispro fessor of psycho logy andVo len N a t iona l C enter forC omplex Sys tems, andhiss tepmother i s Brandei sprofessor Eve Marder

,Vi c tor

andGwendo lyn BeinfieldPro fessor of N euroscienceandVo len N a t iona l C enterfor C omplex Systems .

When Umemoto firedupher laptop one evening inYangon,

she found an ema i lwi th the sub ject l ine:

”Hindley the

Wingfield a t the time wasteaching Southeas t Asianpo l i t i cs a t the Universi tyof Leeds

,surroundedby the

hi l ls andda les of northernEngland. Tha t might behopeless ly far away, excepttha t he was running adis tance- learning mas ter’sprogram for students inS ingapore, which broughthim to As ia every threemonths .

From the firs t ema i lmoment they go t a long verywel l . ” I t go t t o the po intwhere we were wri t inga lmos t every day, but a t thesame time I washesi tant

,

says Umemo to . (Who is thisguy

? ) Af ter about a month,

Wingfieldment ioned tha t hewas travel ing t o Sou theastAsia

,and couldmake a

sma l l detour t o Burma .

Wi l l iam; andhis bro ther,Franklin

,who a l so a t tended

Brandeis .

In addi tion to thisscho larship

,Dona ld and

Phoebe Giddon have beengenerous supporters of theWomen

’s S tudies Programa t Brandeis and of theGiddonWomen andHea l thIni t ia t ive .

who receivedhis seconddo ctora te

,in psycho logy,

from the Univers i ty, andhiswife, Phoebe Rothman ’

56

Giddon. He i s current ly apro fessor a t Harvard andin priva te pract ice inWel les ley . The Scho larshiphonors Giddon’

smo ther,a

na t iona l vice pres ident andhonorary boardmember of

the Brandeis Univers i tyN a t iona l Women’sC ommi t tee; his fa ther,

— Marjorie Lyon

TomWingfie ld '

8 8 and N ico leUmemo t o Wingfield '

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J a c k S . Go ldst ein

InMemor iam

Former Fa cult y DeanJa c k S . Go ldst einDies a t 76

Jack S . Golds tein,pro fessor

emeri tus of as trophys ics,died onDecember 3

,a fter a

long i l lness . He was 76 yearsold.


A na tive of N ew YorkC i ty, Go lds tein didhisundergradua te work a t theC i ty C ol lege of N ew Yorkand earnedhismas ter’sdegree in physics from the

Universi ty of Oklahoma . He

was awarded a Ph .D. fromC ornel l Universi ty in 1 953 .

Go lds teinwas a member of

severa l professiona lorganiza t ions, including theAmeri can Associa t ion forthe Advancement of Science.

He served a three-year termon the Advisory Board of theN a t iona l Science ResourceC enter. He a lso served asa governor of the BrandeisUniversi ty Press, as cha ir ofthe Facul ty Sena te, and as afa cul ty representa tive to theBoard ofTrus tees .

O ther work outs ide ofBrandei s included twoFulbright Grantscholarships

,firs t a t the

Weizmann Inst i tute inRehovo th, Israel, in 1 960 —6 1

,

and a t the Labora torio diAst rofisic a, Univers i ty ofRome

,I ta ly, in 1 966 -6 7; for

this la t ter appointment hea lso received a GuggenheimFel lowship . He was a l soa visi t ing professor a t theUnivers i ty of N a irobi inKenya in 1 969 , a guestscho lar a t the Universi ty ofKyoto in Japan, 1 982, anda vis i ting scient is t a t theMassachuset ts Ins ti tu te ofTechno logy in 1 988 -89 . He

lectured a t a number ofinst i tut ions in Europe, Japan,

Africa, and India .


Making the G rade

Recent Faculty Promo t ionst o Full Professo r

C rea t iveArt sMusicPro fessor ofMusic EricC hasalow hasmade his

principa l mark as anelectroni c composer; muchof hiswork combinescomputer-genera ted soundwi th l ive performers . Hei s equa l ly sophi s tica ted inthe technologica l and themusi ca l aspects of computercomposi t ion. Hiswork iseclect i c

,showing an abi l i ty

t o make use of popularmus ic and a deep knowledgeof the western class ica lmusic tradi t ion. In

comb ining acous t i ca linstruments wi th compu tergenera ted sounds , he hasbeen able to crea te anauthentic mus ica l languagetha t a lso integra tes thena ture of the sounds eachi s capable of crea t ing. His

work is performedsomewhere a lmost everymonth

,including venues in

I ta ly, Germany, France,Sweden, C anada , C hina , andKorea . O thers in the field ofcomposi t ion,

and especia l lyelectro -acous ti c mus ic

,view

C hasalow as an innova torand leader

,ca l l ing him one

of the top composers ofelectro -acoust i c mus ic inthe country . C hasa lowhas

completed, wi th BarbaraC ass idy, a compila tion of

digi ta l ly recorded videointerviews wi th some of themos t prominent compo sersand researchers in the field

,

The Video Archive ofElectro -Acous ti c Mus icians .Thi s pro ject is l ikely t ohave an important and longlast ing impa ct in the area ofelectroni c music .


He is a foundingmember

of the C yberAr t s Festiva l .As cha ir of the mus icdepartment

,he hasbeen

act ive in development,

sta ffing, and studentrecru i tment

,focus ingmuch

of his a t tent ion on the

undergradua te popu la t ionand on improving thedepartment ’s facil i t ies .

Pro fessor ofMus ic DavidRakowski i s regarded asone of themos t gif ted andproductive composers of ourtime. In the last two years,he has been a fina l i s t forthe Pul i tzer Prize inmusic

,

and received the Ameri canAcademy ofArts andLet tersAward. Hewri tes in a widevariety ofmedia

,from vo ice

and int ima te chamberensembles t o band and fu l lorchestra . Hiswork iswidely and frequent lyperformed t o grea t a ccla im.

Senior co l leagues ca l l him”bri l l iant,” ” truly inspiredfantast ica l ly product ive .

Hiswork is origina l, madewi th the highes t level s ofcra ftsmanship and invent ion

,

and a lways superbly scored.

His technique i s ma ture,sophi s tica ted

,and

resourcefu l,andhismusic

is s trongly expressive andsa tis fyingly varied,characterizedby elegantcounterpo int, a long- terml inear structure

,complexi ty,

intel lectua l depth, andabundant imagina t ion.

Recent recordings includeA t ti tude Problem and

Hyperblue, three songs onPoems of Louise Bogan,

and

N octurnal . He has receivedtwo substant ia lcommi ss ions from the

N etwork for N ewMusic andthe U S . Marine Band

,and

has served as composer inresidence a t the Bowdo inSummer Festiva l and theC omposers C onference a tWel lesley C o l lege .

Rakowski is a charisma t ictea cher who engages andinspires his s tudents . Hetea ches the core course forundergradua te concentra tors ,an undergradua tecomposi t ion course

,and the

gradua te seminar incompos i tion,

aswel l asindependent s tudies forgradua te andundergradua tes tudents and senior honorscourses . Rakowski ’scontribu t ions includeadminis tra tion of the

Brande is C ontemporaryC hamber Players , andservi ce as undergradua teadvising head and as amember of the C oncertC ommi t tee. He has a lsoparti cipa ted in theC ommi t tee to Review the

C lus ter Requirement andin the Interdi scipl inaryC ons i lience Seminar.

Thea t erArt sProfessor Robert Moody i srecognized as one of thema jor scenic arti s ts in thethea ter profess ion . He has

been pra i sed for hiswide- ranging knowledge ofgraphic andhi s torica l s tylesandfor hismas tery of allaspects of scenic pa int ingfrom the old schoo l tothe mos t current techniques .One senior co l league hassa id tha t he ”

draws l ikeRaphael

,dra fts wi th the

finesse of a C ana let to , andpa ints wi th the vigor of aC aravaggio . His pen and

ink drawings of complica tedsub jects are techni ca l lyexcel lent, andhiswa terco lors demonstra te agi ft for qu ickly express ingcolor. His technica lproficiency is all the moreimpressive when viewed onthe sca le of stage dropsmeasuring 1 8 by 20 feet .

His artis t i c peers considerhim t o be a t the t op of his

profess ion,describing him

as a” cus todian of s tandards

and tradi t ions” and”an

acknowledgedmas ter of thescenic arts

,who ”

rankswi th the very few grea tsceni c art is ts . Moody a l soenjoys an excel lentrepu ta t ion among directorsanddes igners . S ince 1 9 79 ,he has served as sceni cartis t on over 80 thea trica lproduct ions a t Brandei s andon nea rly 70 product ionsou ts ide the Universi ty . He i sinvi ted t o present teachingand lecture demons tra t ionson scene pa int ing across thena t ion .

Moody teaches courses indrawing, set rendering,scene pa int ing and sceniccra fts . Severa l s tudents havesa id tha t he is the bes tteacher they have had a tBrandei s

,andmany use

the word”mentor" t o

describe his ro le in theireduca t iona l growth . He has

a l so part ic ipa ted in theBrandei s Universi tyEduca t ion Program'sSecondary Schoo l Vi si tingProgram formany years .

S o c ia l S c ienceAnt hropo logy

S ince receiving tenure,Professor of Anthropo logyDavid Jacobson haspubl ished two books and1 7 refereed arti cles . ReadingE thnography, publ ished in1 99 1 , was the first bookt o engage the pos tmoderni s tcri tiq ue of tradi t iona lethnography— a task tha tfew anthropo logis ts werewi l l ing to undertake a t thetime . I t is widely read inanthropo logy courses, whichtes t ifies to i ts importanceand contribut ion t o the field.

Ja cobson’s secondbook,Spying W i thout Sp ies(coautho redwi th C ha rles

Ziegler and publ i shed indraws upon recently

decla ssifieddocuments ofthe U S . Government tona rra te the ”

origins ofAmeri ca ’s secret nuclearsurvei l lance sys tem.

” Mos trecent ly, Jacobson hasaddressed a ubiqu i tousphenomenon inmodern

l i fe— cyberspace, by seekingt o explore how usersrepresent o thers andhowthese concept ions ares tructured.

Jacobson has offered a widearray of courses on 1 8di fferent sub jects over thepas t two decades ; thesecourses vary frommanda tory courses forgradua te s tudents to largecourses for a di verseundergradua te audience . He

has served asdepartmenta lcha ir andundergradua teadvising head, andpart ic ipa ted onmore than20 commi t tees

,many of

cri t ica l importance t o theplanning and opera t ion of

the Univers i ty.

S oc io logyA sociologis t, Pro fessorC armen S iri anni ’s researchfocuses on organiza tiona ls tudies and part ic ipa torydemocracy . His la test book

,

C ivi c Innova tion inAmerica , coauthoredwi thLewi s Friedlandwaspub l ished by the Univers i tyof C a l i fornia Press

,and is

a ma jor contribut ion to thecurrent socia l scientifi cdi s cuss ion of democra t icpart ic ipa t ion incontemporaryAmerican l i fe

,

a centra l i ssue inmodernpo l i t ica l socio logy . O therbooks publ i shed s ince histenure a t Brandei s includeWorking in the Service

Society, edi tedwi thC ameronMa cdona ld (one ofhis Ph.D. students

,now on

the facul ty a t the Univers i tyof C onnecti cu t ); a revisedand expanded version of

his earl ierwork,C ri ti ca l

S tudies in Organiza tion and

Bureaucra cy,edi tedwi th

Frank Fi s cher; and acoedi ted vo lume

,Work ing

Time in Transi tion: thePol i ti ca l Economy ofWorking Hours in IndustrialN a tions. S irianni a lso servesas edi tor for the C ivicPra ct i ces N etwork andcoedi tor of an influent ia lseries of 43 monographs on

”Labor and Socia l C hange”

for the Temp le Univers i tyPress . His next pro ject on

”Leadership N etworks forC ivi c Renewa l

,

” sponsoredby the Pew C hari table Trus t,wi l l use network ana lys is t oident i fy emergent leadershipand act ionmodel s in highlydiversified communi ty andins t i tutiona l set t ings .

S irianni tea ches Order andC hange, aswel l as theintroductory course forHel ler Schoo l doctora ls tudents and coursesincluding C ommuni tyEmpowerment and C ivicDemocracy, Organiza t ionsand Socia l C hange, Po l i ti ca lSociology, andThe Workof C i tizens . He has servedon the Educa t iona l Po l icyC ommi t tee and cha iredhisdepartment 3 Gradua teC ommi t tee

, Gradua teC urri culum Revis ionSubcommi t tee, andGradua te Admi ssionsC ommi t tee. He has a l soserved as an advisor t oor on the advisory boardofmany ins t i tutions rela tedt o civic innova t ion,

suchas the Ket tering Founda t ionBoa rd ofTrus tees and theN a t iona l C ommi ssion onC ivic Renewa l .

S c ienc eMa t hema t ic s

Bong L ian hasbeenpromo ted t o a ful l pro fessorofma thema ti cs . His earlywork inmathematicconformal field theory i sst i l l held in high regard,but his recent proo f, wi thK. Liu and Shing-Tung Yau,

of the mirror conjecturei s considered one of themi les tones of contemporaryma thema t i cs . Using anarray of too ls from a lgebra i cgeometry, complex ana lysi s,and topo logy, Lian’s workhas resul ted in an

impress ive series of paperson the founda t ions ofmirrorsymmetry, a ma thema t ica ldi s t i l la t ion of a fundamenta lprincip le of dua l i ty inma thema ti ca l phys ics . Liana lso pub l ishes papers invertex Opera tor a lgebra s . Hisaccomp lishment s sincetenure are viewed as highlyinnova t ive and asestabl ishing him as a

ma thema t i cian of the firs trank . His research is a t theinterfa ce ofma thema ti csand theoreti ca l high-energy

physics , andphys icis ts andma thema t i c ians speak ofLian wi th the same respectand apprecia t ion for hisaccompli shments . Lian hasbeen invi ted t o lecture a t3 0 ormore conferences

,

workshops, co l loquia , andseminars in the la st fewyears ; hiswork has beensupportedby a N a t iona lScience Founda t ion grant forthe las t five years .

Lian's teaching assignmentshave includedundergradua teandgradua te courses inmany topics . He authoredan advising handbook forundergradua tes, has servedthe department ascol loquium cha ir, andwi l lserve as gradua te advisor inthe coming year.

Physics

Bulbul C hakraborty,professor of physics, researchinterests concern twotheoret ica l sub jects : glasstrans i tions and kinet ics ofordering inmeta l a l loys . Herscho larship, which reflec ts ahigh level of expert ise inthe ana lyt i c andnumerica lmethods of s ta t is t ica lphys ics , i s mo t iva ted bya des ire t o unders tandexperimenta l ly observedphenomena

,an important

aspect of research incondensedma t ter physics .Her work encompasses bas ictheory and compu ters imula t ions . C hakraborty ’

s

work provides new insightinto the origin of glassybehavior in phys ica l systemswi thout quencheddisorder.

She has a lso pioneered theuse of sophis t ica tedenergyca lcu la t ions based onquantummechanics todevelop effective free energyfunctiona l s .

C hakraborty has publ ishedextensively andhas acont inuous recordof grantsupport from the N a t iona lScience Founda tion and theDepartment of Energy. She

has taught courses insta t ist ica l mechanics andcondensedma t ter physics,a t t he undergradua te andgradua te level . She hasservedon a number of

Universi ty anddepartmenta lcommi t tees

,parti cipa ted in

the Summer OdysseyProgram,

and advised firs tyear s tudents . She currentlyserves as the gradua teadvisor to her departmentand a member of the

interdi scipl inary C onsi li enceSeminar. She has a l so beenins trumenta l in leadingsevera l loca l seminars onsta t is t ica l physics for facul tyin the Bos ton area .


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by C ri s t in C arr


Developmen t and So c ia l Po l i cy a t Ya leUn i vers i ty .

” I t redi s covers the ’who le

ch i ld approa ch ’ ins tead of loo k ing a ta ch i ld as a di sembodied

,cogn i t i ve

compu ter tha t we ’

re suppo sed t oprogram wi th ins truc t ions . ”

From N eurons to N eighborhoods

do cument s the ex traordinary burs t ofs c ient ifi c know ledge tha t has beenprodu ced abou t developmen t fromb ir th t o age 5 , no tes the drama t i csoc ia l and e conom i c changes tha t ha vea f fec ted fam i ly l i fe in recen t de ca des

,

and commen ts on the ex ten t t o wh i chcurrent po l i c ies do no t fu l ly cap i ta l i zeon the a va i lab le know ledge ba se .

There i s a compel l ing need for more

cons tru c t i ve dia logue be tween tho sewho suppor t ma s s i ve pub l i cinves tmen t s in early chi ldhood serv i cesand tho se who ques t ion the ir co s tand ask whether they rea lly ma ke adi f ference

,

” sa i d Shonkoff. “Advo ca tes

of earl ier andmore in terven t ion ha vean ob l iga t ion t o mea sure the ir impa c t sand cos ts . Skep t i c s , in turn,

mu s ta c knowledge the ma s s i ve s c ien t ifi cev idence tha t ea rly chi ldhooddevelopmen t i s influenced by theenv ironmen t s in whi ch ch i ldren l i ve .

Shonko ff c i tes four ma jor conc lu s ionsfrom the report tha t se t a con tex t for aseries o f recommenda t ions for po l i c iesand serv i ces t o addres s the needs ofyoung ch i ldren .


The firs t ma jor conc lu s ion indi ca testha t human development i s de terminedby na ture andnurture .

A second ma jor conc lus ion rea chedby the commi t tee i s tha t human

rela t ionsh ip s are the ”a c t i ve ingredien t

of env ironmen ta l influence on chi lddevelopmen t .

He no tes further tha t theserela t ionsh ip s define the cul tura lcon tex t w i th in wh ich core va lues aretransm i t ted from one genera t ion t othe nex t .

Edwa rd Zig le r

Mo lecu lar b io logi s t s a t the fore fron tof the Human Genome Pro jec t andleading beha v iora l s c ien t i s t s agree tha tea ch of us is the produ c t of aun iq ue genet ic endowmen t and theinfluence of our persona l l i feexperiences, ” sa i d Shonkoff. ”

For

young ch i ldren, beginn ing a t b ir th,

the q ues t ion is no t whether ea rlyexper ience ma t ters bu t ra ther howea rly exper iences shape indi v idua ldevelopmen t ."

According t o Samuel 1. Me isel s,

pres i den t of the Eri k son Ins t i tu te,an independent , a ca demi c ins t i tu t iontha t prepa res ch i ld developmen tpro fes s iona ls for leadersh ip ro les

,From

N eurons to N eighborhoods sends animpor tan t message abou t the mu l t ip leforces tha t influence development .

Th i s repor t ta kes the i s sue of na ture vs.

nur ture and a s k s us t o q ues t ion gene t i cendowmen t and examine how i t i sexpres sed, sa i d Me i sel s . ” I t a lso a s k sus t o con s ider intel lec tua l and so c ia ldevelopmen t

,wh i ch i s very relevant

when des ign ing po l i c ies tha t can ha vean impa c t on chi ldren ’s developmen t . "

C h i ldren’s early deve lopmen t i sinfluenced mo s t s ignifican t ly by thehea l th andwel l be ing of the ir pa ren t s ,sa id Shonko ff .

” I t i s a l so a f fec ted by t heq ua l i ty of the ir rela t ionsh ip s w i th theo ther important people in the ir l i ves ,who increa s ingly inc lude non- fami lyprov iders o f early care and edu ca t ion.

A third core conc lu s ion of the repor tindi ca tes tha t the early emergence ofin tel l igence, emo t iona l regu la t ion,

and

soc ia l s k i l l s are h ighly interrela ted andtha t the developmen t o f compe tencein ea ch i s c lo sely in tertw ined w i ththe o thers . Ac cording t o Shonko ff,before their firs t b irthday, ch i ldren c an

feel t he exh i lara t ion of ma s ter ing acha l lenging ta s k aswel l as the deepand la s t ing sa dness tha t re su l ts fromser iou s trauma

,lo s s

, or ea rly persona lrejec t ion . As the ir bra ins ma ture, the irab i l i ty t o ma s ter new s k i l l s grows,and these emerging lea rn ing ab i l i t iesare l inked c lo sely t o the ir capa c i ty t oregu la te their feel ings and con tro l the irown beha v ior.

The fourth key conc lus ion i s tha tearly chi ldhood programs tha t del i vercareful ly des igned serv i ces by wel ltra ined s ta f f c an ha ve s ign ifi can tpo s i t i ve impa c ts on young ch i ldrenw i th a w ide range o f developmen ta ldi fficu l t ies . Interven t ions tha t worka re ra rely s imp le, inexpens i ve, or ea syt o imp lemen t , however, and poorly

des igned programs w i th inadeq ua tefunding are unl i kely t o produ ces ignifi can t benefi t s .

There are no magi c bu l le t s or q u i c kfixes for addres s ing the comp lex i t ieso f human developmen t

,

” sa i d Shonko ff.”However

,s ta te-of—the-art serv i ces tha t

are funded su ffi c ien t ly are a w i se pub l icinves tmen t tha t is l i kely t o returnsho r t - term developmen ta l di v idendsand long- term human cap i ta l ga ins .

The commi t tee ’s findings empha s i zetha t in order t o secure the economi cand po l i t i ca l fu ture of our na t ionwe mu s t inves t w i sely in the hea l thand developmen t o f a ll our ch i ldren

,

wel l be fore the s tart of schoo l . Inaddi t ion,

we mus t lea rn from rigorouseva lua t ions of tho se inves tmen t s

,and

fo cus on the re turn in long- termgrow th ra ther than short - term sa v ings .

The gap be tween wha t we know and

wha t we do t o promo te the wel l be ingof ch i ldren i s una c cep tab ly w i de, ” sa i dShonkofl.

in his dua l ro les a t Brande i s, Shonkoff

i l lus tra tes leadersh ip through hispa s s iona te commi tmen t to benefic ia lso c ia l change— a co re va lue of TheHel ler S choo l .

Many o f our pub l i c po l i c ies and human

serv i ces a re ma rked ly incons i s ten t w i ths ta te-o f- the-art s c ience

,

” sa i d Shonkoff.

jus t l i ke the incredib ly ta len ted andhard -work ing comm i t tee tha t produ cedFrom N eurons to N eighborhoods, The

Hel ler S choo l i s dedi ca ted t o clo s ingtha t gap .

”

A board - c ert ified pedia tri c ian w i th twodecades of pra c t i ca l experience in the

del i very of hea l th care and earlych i ldhood in terven t ion serv i ces

,

Shonkoff brings a longs tanding,persona l i zed approa ch t o addres s ing thephys i ca l, emo t iona l

,and so c ia l needs of

chi ldren .

Ia ck ’s in teres ted in ma k ing an impa c t ,sa i d Z igler.

“As a pedia tric ian he has

ta ken his know ledge abou t ch i ldrenand app l ied i t t o so c ia l po l i cy .

”

An au thor o fmore than 1 20pub l i ca t ions , Shonko ff a l so was t heprinc ipa l inves t iga tor of the EarlyIn terven t ion C o l labora t i ve S tudy, t he

From N eurons to

N e ig hb o rho ods is a

t he sc ien ce o f e a r lych i ldho od deve lo pmentinto a c le a r a nd

unde rsta nda b le v is ionfo r t he na t ion’ s yo ung e stch i ldren.

"

S ena to r Edwa rd M .

Ke nnedy

la rges t and longes t -runninglongi tudina l s tudy of developmen ta l lyvu lnerab le ch i ldren and the ir fami l iesin the U ni ted S ta tes . The t ime and

expert i se he has inves ted in the fu tureof our na t ion ’s ch i ldren prov ides amodel of how we can c lo se the gapbetween wha t we know andwha twe do .

”Br i dg ing tha t gap— mob i l i z ing

know ledge t o advance so c ia l ju s t i ce,

”

says Shonkoff, i s wha t The Hel lerS choo l a t Brande i s i s a ll abou t ."

As edi tor of the repor t and cha ir o f theC ommi t tee on In tegra t ing t he Sc ienceof Ea rly C h i ldhood Developmen t

,Ja ck

Shonko ff,dean of The Hel ler S choo l

a t Brande i s, has done an ou t s tanding

job in help ing t o shape more ef fec t i vena t iona l po l i cy for Ameri ca ’s chi ldren

,

sa i d Sena tor Kennedy .

For more informa t ion abou t N eurons

t o N eighborhoods or The Hel ler S choo lfor So c ia l Po l i cy andM anagement ,p lea se ca l l 8 0 0 -3 79 -4 1 0 5 . I

C rist in C arr is a medi a rela ti onsspeci a l ist a t Brandeis Universi ty


Through hiswri t ings and presenta t ionsa t numerou s pub l i c forums , Shonkoffcont inues t o be influen t ia l as hecommuni c a tes the need for a senseof shared pub l i c respons ib i l i ty forour younges t ch i ldren . Thi s i s a l soexemp l ified by his con tribu t ions t omany pro fes s iona l and pub l i c in teres ta dv isory boards , inc luding recen tserv i ce on the Govern ing C ounc i l oft he So c iety for Research in C h i ldDevelopmen t andmembersh ip in thes c ien t ific core group of the john D. and

C a therine T. Ma cArthur Founda t ionResearch N e twork on Ea rly Experienceand Bra inDevelopmen t .


The d ia lo gue isn'

t aboutc onv inc ing o the rs ab out r ight o r wrong

but ab out unde rstand ing and l istening .

You h ave t o step away f rom t he

p ing -pong of mut ua l b lame .

One su ch program i s the Arab - I srael iDia logue Group , s tarted by former

Pea ce S cho la r Forsan Hus sein ’DOand

his c lo se friend a t Brandei s M i chaelBa v ly ’

0 0,a Jew i sh I srae l i . Hu s se in

came t o Brandei s from Sha’ab

,a sma l l

Arab I srael i v i l lage in the Ga l i lee,andnow works as a commun i ca t ionsa s so c ia te a t The Abraham Fund inN ew York , a no t -for-

profi t organ i za t iondedi ca ted t o promo t ing coex i s tencebe tween Jew i sh andArab I srael ic i t i zens . A lan S l i f ka i s co founder ofThe Abraham Fund .

Hu s se in exp la ins theDia logue Group ’sincep t ion : ”M icha e l and I rea l i zed earlyin our friendsh ip tha t I had t o learn t heJewi sh narra t ive andhis percep t ion o f

me and of the confl i c t,and he needed

t o unders tand mine . As an Arab,I

have di f feren t s tories of heri tage anddi f feren t v iews than he does . Theses tereo types and oppo s ing v iews ma kethe confl i c t so huge .

Through dia logue we cou ld beginwa lk ing on the r igh t pa th becau sel i s tening i s the beginning of pea ce,t o q uo te world pea ce scho lar E l iseBou lding . I t ’s only when you l i s tent o every word and t ry t o rela te t osomeone

’s na rra t i ve tha t you dec i deno t t o dehumani ze the o ther

,t o loo k a t

him in the eye as an eq ua l par tner whowan t s t o ma ke pea ce w i th you .

”

Hus sein con t inues,When we s tarted

,

we wan ted t o know more abou t ea chO ther, t o know ea ch o ther ’s s tories . Andwe had fun . In i t ia l ly there were severa lmen andwe ta lked abou t gi rl s andfood

,then we ta lked abou t the confl i c t .

We weren’t in teres ted in reshap ing the

M i ddle Ea s t and reso lv ing i s sues ofborders and refugees bu t ra ther why, fo r


ins tance,mo s t peop le ha ven’ t heard of

the Al -N aqba Pa les t in ian ca ta s trophein

Dia logue Group co founder Bav ly, no t aPea ce S cho lar bu t highly invo lved inconfl i c t reso lu t ion

,ta l k s o f the group ’s

comm i tment . ”Wha t made i t la s t wasthe rea l i za t ion tha t no ma t ter hows trong the di sagreemen t s

,we wou ld

s t i c k w i th the ef for t . Even when peop leca l led Z ioni sm a di sea se

,we wou ld no t

lea ve the room bu t wou ld l i s ten t otheir reason ing and then exp la in whytha t a t t i tude is hur t fu l . The dia loguei sn't abou t convin c ing o thers abou trigh t or wrong bu t abou t unders tandingand l i s ten ing . You have t o s tep away

from the p ing-

pong ofmu tua l blame .

The deba tes were ama z ing . We shou ted,

argued, and exp la ined . Andwe a lwayshad food on the tab le

,our na t ive

foods l i ke hummu s and lahene (M i ddleEa s tern yogurt ) . When you ha ve food inyour mou th you can ’t ta lk . You ha ve t ol i s ten .

"

Th i s work needs t o o c cur on two

levels— a gra ssroo ts level and a po l i t i ca llevel . I th ink i t ’s more rewarding t owork a t the gra s sroo t s level bu t more

ef fec t i ve on the po l i t i ca l level . M aybe i fyou put Ara fa t and Sharon through thepro ces s we ’

re s tar t ing, ha ve them p lays i l ly games , smi le a t ea ch o ther, andben i ce t o ea ch o ther

,they w i l l es tab l i sh

tru s t through wh i ch they c an see eacho ther no t as enemies w i th a winnerand lo ser bu t as peop le who c an ga infrom finding common ground . I t 's no tnecessa ry t o reach po l i t ica l agreementon every th ing bu t i t is po ss ib le t o come

t o a p la ce where bo th par t ies ’ mo s timportan t needs are sa t i sfied .

”

Pevzner ’s perspec t i ve on confl i c treso lu t ion grew no t only ou t of herinvo lvemen t in the Dia logue Group bu tfrom her c iv i l servi ce work a f ter highs choo l wi th Arab and I srael i you ths . ” Icame from a ba c kground of work incoex is tence . S ince the int i fadas s tarted

,

I’ve s truggled be tween my des ire forpersona l grow th andmy need t o be inI srael work ing for change in a pea cefulway .

Th i s summer Pevzner re turned t o Israelto condu c t research on women

’s ro lein the pea ce pro ces s . Pea ce S cho larKhsha ibon a lso spent t ime in I srael as

Ma isa Khsha ibon'

0 3 and Ma rina Pevzner '

0 4

Pa les t ini ans,Israel i Jews

,Jordani ans

,

Lebanese,Syrians, andAmerican Jews

compo se the curren t Dia logue Group” It ’s one of the mo s t important th ingswe do

,no tes current Pea ce S cho lar

Khsha ibon.

“ People from theM iddleEa s t and the U ni ted S ta tes come

toge ther andbel ieve in change . We

discu s s exp lo s i ve top ics from the sa fetyof our group . Af ter a hea ted di s cu s s ion,someone can say,

’Al though I don’t agree

wi th you,I unders tand your

We don ’t agree on many th ings , saysPevzner

,

”bu t we’re ab le t o trus t ea ch

o ther so we t ry t o unders tand and learnfrom ea ch o ther. Some t imes you ha vethi s ’wow

’ fee l ing tha t ’s crea ted in a

se t t ing where so many di f feren t peop lecome toge ther. I t ’s a mi cro co sm— by

see ing i t in our group, we see tha t i t i spo ssib le on a larger s ca le .

par t of her s tudy t o promo te coex i s tence .

Pevzner andKhsha ibon,bes t friends

,

buoyed each o ther ba c k home as bo thwere sha ken by the v io lence andtrans forma t ion they wi tnes sed in Israel .

Ha i fa u sed t o be a p la ce where peop lewou ldn ’t look a t you di f feren t ly i f youwere an Arab ,

”Khsha ibon describes .

”Bu t th i s summer when I tra veled bybus and spo ke Arab i c , peop le s tared .

In Jeru sa lem I didn’ t feel sa fe spea k ingAr ab i c on the s tree t . M any o f my

Jew i sh I srael i friends made me feelsuddenly les s wel come . Andmy V iew swere s tri k ingly di f feren t from tho se ofmy Arab friends aswel l .

As a Jew w i th le f t -wing po l i t i c s ,Pevzner fa ced a di fferen t brand o fan tagon ism . I waswork ing in a

women’s pea ce organ i za t ion and

wea ring a sh ir t tha t says in Hebrew’Daugh ter of Pea ce .

’ I wen t t o buy a

fa la fel and the vendor sa i d,

’You ’re no t

a shamed of yoursel f wearing th i s sh ir t ? ’Ano ther day I was s tanding in a s i len tdemons tra t ion andwas ca l led everycurse you cou ld hear.

Women in I srael p lay an impor tan tro le in try ing t o mob i l i ze ob jec t iont o the one- s i ded consensu s . We engage

in peac efu l a c t ivi t ies l i ke go ing t ochec kpo in t s . Our presence influencesso ldiers t o be more sens i t i ve .

In my work th is summer,I found

tha t i t ’s the Pa les t in ian and Jewi shwomen work ing toge ther, no t themen

,engaged in pea ce work . Whi le

women were gi v ing speeches in pea cedemons tra t ions

, you heard bombsdropp ing in the background . M aybe i t ’sbecause in I srael i so c ie ty the men fo cu son the army .

Bu t my v iews s t i l l are di f feren tfrom tho se of the a verage Jew i shIsrael i woman

,Pevzner con t inues .

”Ma i sa has an ea s ier s i tua t ion . So c ie tya l lows her v iews because of her Arabba c kground . I

’m more a lone w i th mypo l i t i c s in I s rae l i Jew i sh so c ie ty . N ow

,

though, w i th the coun try resort ing t o

v io lence, i t ’s ea s ier for me t o ma ke myargument . Every day there is su f feringon bo th s ides , the ha tred and gapbe tween Pa les t in ians and Jews hasgrown . So I a rgue, ’

Show me how your

way hasmade th ings be t ter . You can ’t . ’Peop le c an no t l i ve w i th th is approa chof no t nego t ia t ing .

”

C oex is tence i s the drumbea t soundedby Pea ce S cho lars , suppor ters , andmany a cadem i c s in the field .

”C oexi s tence work frees leaders t omove through conversa t ions a t a lllevel s o f so c ie ty, a c cording t o M ariFi t zduff

, pro fes sor of confl i c t s tudiesand direc tor of the In i t ia t i ve onC onfl i c t Reso lu t ion and E thn i c i ty of

t he Un i vers i ty of U l s ter and the U ni tedN a t ions U n i vers i ty .

”C oex i s tence

ef for t s gi ve peop le Spa ce t o dea l w i thea ch o thers ’ fea rs and anger.

”

Peacebui lding i s abou t dua l i ty, abou tArab and Jew bra ins torming, do ingthe work toge ther ba sed on mu tua lin teres t s

,says former Pea ce S cho lar

Hu s se in .

”Whi le the I sra el i Dec lara t ionof Independence guaran tees me fu l lequa l i ty, the mindse t of the peop leperpetua tes ignorance, superfi c ia li ty,and arrogance . Arab friends ba c k home

see di s c r im ina t ion every day . I t ma kesthem b i t ter . The only way for us t o be

equa l c i t i zens in I srael i s t o reach ou t t othe o ther s ide

,t o des troy wha t we ’ve a ll

crea ted through decades o f in to lerance .

We connec t becau se of ourcommona l i t ies

,

” Pevzner adds . ”And

the fa c t tha t we’re bes t friends i s a

mirror o f our mes sage, a mes sage tha tPevzner and Khsha ibon commun i ca tein spee che s abou t coexi s tence throughthe yea r. Former Pea ce S cho larsHu s sein andh is c lo se friend Yoa vBorowi t z ’

OO,o rigina l ly from Tel Av i v

Ta her Baderkhan ’

0 3

andnow work ing in N ew York ,a l so rema in invo lved in coex i s ten cein i t ia t i ves .

Pevzner says , Mu ch of the coex i s tenc ework done during the years of the O s lopea c e nego t ia t ions s topped . The sys temcrea ted t o suppor t the work wa sn ’ts trong enough t o w i ths tand more

seriou s cha l lenges . When we crea tenew coex istenc e edu ca t iona l programs ,we need t o cons i der how t o enab lethem t o w i ths tand momen t s where therela t ionsh ip be tween Arab s and Jewsi s no t good . If you come from a ba s i ca t t i tude tha t V io lence is wrong, you c an

sus ta in a commi tmen t t o coex i s tenceef fort s . ”

Ellen Freeman Ro th’

80 , is a freelancewri t er in Weston , Massa chuse t ts.


Khsha ibon rela tes,Mu ch of t he world

tel l s M ar ina andme tha t we’re

suppo sed to be enem ies . But i f I’mup se t abou t wha t ’s go ing on in I srae l,M arina i s the firs t one I ta lk t o . She

unders tands wha t I’m go ing through,and vi ce versa . We may disagree onspec ifi c i s sues bu t we a lways findcommon ground .

”

S cho larsh ip benefa c tor A lan S l i f kaho lds tha t every ch i ld in I sra el shou ldrece i ve a coex i s tence edu ca t ion,

”wh i ch a long wi th governmen t po l i c iesfur thering so c ioeconom i c equa l i ty c ango a long way t o promo te to leranceand respec t . ” He exp la ins , ”Terrori smari ses in par t from people feel ingimpo ten t , hum i l ia ted, di srespec ted,and unseen . Enhanc ing coex i s tenceprograms l i ke the Pea ce S cho larsh ip si s par t o f t he so lu t ion t o crea t inga so c ie ty where there i s respec t fordi f ference .

”


Trusted re lat ionsh ips a re c rit ic a lt o so lv ing c omputer c r imes .

to t he co rpo ra tion c an be a deg ree

of loss of cont ro l . Friedbe rg helpsamel io ra te tha t loss of contro l ,t hrough a so l id understanding o fhow t he p ro cess wo rks and throughpe rsona l re la tionships wi th peo p leinvo lved .When a cl ient re fers t hec a se t o law enfo rcement , Friedbergwo rks wit h e i ther t he FBI, t he N YPD’

s

computer crimes sq uad, o r t he US .

S ecre t S ervic e Elect ro nic C rimesTaskFo rce in N ewYo rk, a mult idiscipl ina ryand technica lly so phist ica ted loc a l,st a te , and federa l co rpo ra te t a skfo rce t ha t is ba sed onwidespreadinfo rma tion sha ring .

Ano t her ca se in po int : one of t hela rges t independent Internet securit iest rading fi rms ha s been t a rgeted fo rtwo days by denia l -o f—service a tt a cks .

This fo rm o f sa bo t age invo lves t hesending of huge pa cke ts o f da ta froma remo te lo ca tion t ha t cause t hefi rm's serve rs t o cra sh fo r hours a ta time . A p ro longed denia l-o f—servicecripples a firm.The t a rget companysuspects a da t a ba se p rog rammerwhois disg runt led by his seve rancenego t ia t ions . Friedberg is ca lled in.

The a tta ck is t ra ced to a PC a t a

Kinko ’s copy sho p in Manha t t an.The

IP address of t he a t ta cking computerisn'

t t ransmit ted in a fo rm t ha t c anbe captured, but is vis ib le during t hea t ta ck, a l lowing t he company to lo ca tet he Kinko 's ma chine in rea l t ime .

Then t he perpet ra t o r s l ips up .The IP

address is l inked to a computer int he lib ra ry of his co l lege . Friedberghas by t his t ime wo rked wit h t hetrading firm to make a crimina lre ferra l to his fo rmer co lleagues a t t heUS . At to rney ’s Off ice fo r t he Ea sternDist rict o f N ewYo rk and t he US .

S ecre t S ervice .Wit hin a ha lf hour oft he a t ta ck, a S ecret S ervice Agenta rrives in t he Iib ra ry.The pe rpet ra to r isgone . But t he agent lea rns t he identity


of t he fo rmer st udent from a l ib ra rianwho recognized h im. Wha t wa s hedo ing whi le he was launch ing hisa t ta ck?" exp la ins Friedbe rg .

”

S tupidly,

he wa s reading h is ema ils f rom his

pe rsona l ema i l a ccount . S o whenagents se ized t he computer from t he

l ib ra ry and did t he fo rens ics , t heycould recrea te his sess ions , inwhichhe was checking his ema il.Tha tproved his ident ity.

”

The suspect wasa rres ted, det a ined wit hout ba il, andla t e r indicted. He p leaded gui lty tolaunching t he a t ta cks in vio la t ion o ft he C omputer Fraud a nd Abuse Ac tand was sentenced to eight mo nt hs inpfison.

A phi lo sophy ma jo rwho playedva rs i ty so ccer fo r three yea rs a tBrandeis , Friedberg ea rned a law

deg ree a t Broo klyn Law S choo l andwo rked a t S kadden, Arps , S la te ,

Meaghe r Flom in N ewYo rk fo r s ixyea rs , g rowing increa s ing ly int erestedin pub lic service in t he fo rm of

crimina l prosecutions . Friedberg , who

writes poet ry, remembers t ha t whenhe left priva te pra ct ice , t a king a

pay out , he was ha ppy t o

ma ke decis io ns ba sed on t he rig htthing . Iwent from shopp ing a tBa rneys to sho pping a t t he Gap . And

it was t o t a l ly wo rth it .They we re t hebest yea rs o f my l i fe ,

”

he says o fhis 1 2-

yea r ca reer beg inning in 1 98 9as a p ro secuto r a t t he US . At to rney ’sOffice fo r t he Ea ste rnDist rict ofN ewYo rk. Fo cus ing o n S outhAmerican drug t ra fficking andna rco - te rro rism, inves tiga t ing andpro secut ing impo rta tion, ho st a get aking , Ra cketeer Influenced andC o rrup t Organiza t io ns ( RICO) , andmurder~fo r~hire cases , Friedberginvest iga ted and t ried t he ca se aga ins tsix co nspira to rs responsib le fo r t heC a l i-C a rte l -o rdered a ssa ss ina t ion ofManue l de Dio s Unanue , t he fo rme r

edi to r in chie f o f El-Dia rio , N ew

Yo rk's la rgest S panish- language da ilynewspaper. He began investiga t ing

computer crimes ca ses , becomingt he computer and te lecommunica t ionscoo rdina to r a t t he o f fice . He

inves tiga ted and p ro secuted ca sesinvo lv ing comput er int rus ions ,denia l-of—service a t ta cks , crimina lt radema rk and copyright infringement ,computer ha rdwa re and softwa recounterfe iting , e

-commerce fra ud,

te lecommunica t ions b i ll ing fraud,

i l lega l e lectronic surve i llance , and

Internet - re la t ed t rade secret t heft .

A t hird ca se : an outnumbered vo ice ina bo a rdroom doesn'

t like a pa rticula rco rpo ra te decision and decides t o getevenwi th t he company. He leaks newsa bo ut a s to ck t he company is a bout toissue by po st ing sens i tive info rma tiononYahoo Financ e .The company comesto Friedberg to ask: C an you find outwho is ma king t hese po st ing s? ” Theydon

’

t want a p ro secut ion, t hey want tokeep it low pro fi le .

S ince 8 0 percent of computer crimecomes from t he ins ide ,

"

exp la insFriedberg , your first thoug ht ismaybe t he person is s lo ppy enoughto be ma king his po st ing s fromwo rk ." Friedberg c an set up sea rchpa rameters , sniffer prog rams, o r

o t her kinds of inves tiga t ive too lstha t a l low him to a ct ua l ly see t heinfo rma tion go ing out of t he cl ient 'snetwo rk o n an ongo ing ba s is . If t he

cl ient s to res ema i l — le t 's say t hey haveemployees— a huge amount o f

Web t ra f fic is go ing out t o t he Internetduring t he day. Friedberg has too ls( such as S i lent Runner deve lo ped byRayt heo n) t ha t wi l l sea rch t hrough

ema i ls in five minutes loo kingfo r t ha t Ya hoo Finance address .

”Wha ti f tha t guy uses t he same screen name

Befo re , he was dea l ingw it h sec reta r ies a ndmiddle manage rs, and nowhe is dea l ing w it h guysw it h ra id jac kets , guns ,a nd b atte r ing rams . T hatusua l ly c auses peop let o b e a l itt le mo re c and id .

in a sea rcha b le Int ernet cha t room? Orwe have had ca ses where somebodyuses t ha t same screen name whi leengag ing in o ther a ct ivity o n t heInternet , and t henwe c an sea rch t heInternet fo r t ha t screen name ,

” saysFriedberg . S omet imes he c an lure t hesuspect f rom a cha t room int o makingce rta in t echnica l decis io ns t ha t ma keit eas ie r t o ident i fy him. Fo r examp le ,

Friedberg esta b lishes an undercoverdia logue and sends t he suspect ap iece o f HTMLma il t ha t he a sks himt o o pen.The pro toco l will send ba ck areco rd o f t he suspec t ’s IP address .

But a so phist ica ted person is p ro b a b lyno t go ing t o cha t wit h somebody he

doesn'

t know. If he does , he is no tgo ing to o pen up anyt hing he doesn’

t

have cont ro l over. If he does havecont ro l over it , he is not go ing t o o pen

it up from an IP address t ha t is a ct ua l lya sso cia ted wit h whe re he rea l ly is. In

o t herwo rds , he may a ccess his ma ilfrom somep la ce l ike Kinko s . But let ’ssay t he suspect is s loppy, and hehas a ca b le modem. C a b le modemshave fixed IP addresses tha t a ctua l lyco rrespond t o t he owner’s house . If he

ident ifies himsel f in t hat fa shion, he

has b a sica l ly led somebody right ba ckto his house .

Lucki ly fo r co rpo ra t ions , many int erna lcrimes a re commit ted by people whoa re s imp ly agg rava ted and frust ra tedby wo rkp la ce sit ua t ions.The ir leve l o ffrust ra t ion is so h igh t ha t it clo udswha tever a b i l ity t hey might have totechnica lly cover t he ir t ra cks . And

when law enfo rcement is ca lled in,

t hey a re ill eq uipped t o C Ope .

”When

t he ba s ic IT guy get s a bunch of peo p lebusting down his doo r, he rea lizeshe has j ust dro pped into a differentleague ,

" says Friedbe rg .

”

Be fo re , he

was dea l ing wit h secret a ries a ndmiddle managers , and now he isdea l ing wit h guys wi th ra id j a ckets,

guns , a nd b a ttering rams.Tha t usua llyca uses peo p le to be a l it tle mo recandid.

In ho t pursuit of t ho se who a re

t echnica l ly savvy, just p la in mad, o r

bo t h , Friedbe rg loves his jo b . (”Wha t

boy doesn’

t g row up wa nt ing to p layc o ps and ”

I like it beca useI left civi l p ra ct ice to do pub l ic se rvice ,

and to be on t he right s ide of issues ,not just on t he s ide o f issues t ha t acl ient wanted me t o be on. Fo rens icsa llows me to co nt inue t ha t becausefo rens ics isn’

t a q uest ion of advo ca cy.

When I pro secuted, Iwa s t rying toa chieve jus tice , no t a chieve a pa rt icula rresult . I'm st i ll ba sica lly sea rching fo r

Ma rjo rie Lyon is a s ta ff writer.

If I get t o know your annive rsa ry,

if I get t o know your kids' names , if I knowwhat the i r b i rthdays a re , I now havea ll t he data nec essa ry t o t ry t oc rac k your passwo rd by t ria l a nd e r ro r.


There a re ways to monit o r netwo rkuse . Friedberg let s t he netwo rk it se l fde fine wha t is no rma l . Let

’s say youa re in a ho sp it a l , and surgery beg insbetween and am,

" sugges tsFriedberg .

”There ’s a lo t o f a ct ivity a t acerta in t ime tha t includes s imila r da ta .

We c an clust er t ha t da t a a nd seg rega teit o n o ne s ide of t he screen. If a t

in t he mo rning t here is a 20 -meg filet ransfer toTha iland, t ha t pops up as

a berrant behavio r.We let t he netwo rkde fine wha t is a berrant , and t hen dri l ldown int o t he a berra t ion.We may findt ha t once a month a repo rt goes t ot he pa rent company inTha ila nd, and

t henwe reprog ram t he interfa ce to c a ll

t ha t no rma l . And we c an a lso use it

in reverse .Wha t i f 20 people in yourcompany a re o pera t ing anAmway

dist ributo rship during company t ime?(A t rue sto ry. ) All of t ha t da t a is go ingto look s imi la r, but no t l ike anythinge lse .

t he t ruth . And then let t he chipsfa llwhere t hey may. I s til l feelpeo p le need t he info rma tion in a clea ro b jec tive fa shion, whet her it

’

s good

news , bad, o r inco nc lusive .We lea veit to t he advo ca tes o r t he lawyersto make wha t ever a rguments o r ta kewha tever po s i tion they wa nt b a sed ont ha t da t a ,

"

expla ins Friedberg .

Advice? Give ITma nagers of a g lo ba lcompany, who essentia lly have t hekeys to t he kingdom, a t op

-of—t he- l inet ho rough ba ckg round check. And ifsens it ive info rma t io n is s to red on acomputer, keep an a ir ga p between

it and t he Internet — don’ t hook itup .Ta ke ca re choo s ing and gua rdingpa sswo rds . N ot only do peop le oftenuse one pa sswo rd in mo re t han onep la ce , but a l it tle ca sua l info rma t iongoes a lo ng way in te rms o f discovery.

”

If I get to know your a nniversa ry, i f Iget to know yo ur kids ' names , if I knowwha t t he i r b irthdays a re , I now have

a ll t he da t a necessa ry to t ry to cra ckyour pa sswo rd by t ria l and erro r,” saysFriedberg .

Then t here a re t he kids , ca lled scriptkiddies .

”

The se rious ha ckers posta ll t hei r explo it s on t he Interne t ,"expla ins Friedberg , and 1 4 -

yea r-o ld

scrip t kiddies who couldn’

t writ e t hecode i f t he ir l ives depended o n it ,download t ha t code and use t ho setoo ls to launch a tt a cks . N ow inst eadof one perso n having t his explo it ,t housands o f peo ple have it .” Thereis a ra c e fo r co rpo ra t ions t o makesure t hei r systems a re pa t ched in a

way t ha t as soon as an explo i t isdiscovered and dissemina ted wit hint he ha cker community, pa t ches a rewrit ten a nd dis tributed withinco rpo ra t ions t ha t de fea t t ha t exp lo it .

no t , a nd t hing s get unplea sant , theyc a ll Eric Friedbe rg . I


an a c t i ve vo l cano , andconsequent ly i ts famou serup t ion came as a

surpri se and cau sedcons iderab le loss o f l i feand des tru c t ion t o the

surrounding area . Todaya much larger popula t iono c cup ies the areasurrounding the vo lcano .

Emergency p lann ing isnow underway forremov ing peop le from the

pa th of the nex t grea terup t ion . N eapo l i tansha ve tended t o repres sanxi e ty abou t th isimpending erup t ion,

a l though an a r t i c le in thelo ca l newspaper abou temergency p lanning a tthe t ime of our

sympo s ium genera ted aflurry of anx iou stelephone ca l l s ,in terrup t ing Lu i saC i ve t ta , the direc tor ofemergency p lann ing,wh i le she was gi v ing herpresen ta t ion abou t thecurrent s i tua t ion .

M t . Vesu v iu s,and the

surrounding Flegra eanF ields

,however

,i s bu t

one o fmany vo l cani cregions who se impa c t we

cons i dered . M t . E tna,in

S i c i ly, has been

con t inuou s ly a c t i ve overmo s t o f the pa s t 4 00years . Ev idence from fieldinves t iga t ions and earlyh is tor ic records indi ca tetha t E tna has been a c t i veas far ba c k as the fi f thcen tury B C . Recordssugges t tha t the c i ty ofC a tan ia was part lydes troyed by la va inabou t 693 B C ,

and aga inin 4 25 BC .

The S ikels, earlyinhab i tan t s of S ic i ly,worsh ipped the goddess,Hyb la , who se temp le hasbeen found a t Pa terno

,a t

the sou thwes t margin o f

E tna,and there was a

temp le t o the fire god,Hadranus

,near Adrano .

Wa ter,wh ich in i t sel f

i s very impor tan t inpreh i s toric ri tua l, whenta k ing on an

”abnorma l

condi t ion su ch as

bubb l ing or be ing ga seous,enhanced the ho l ines sof some o f these s i tes

,

su ch as the bo i l ingN apthia La ke, whi ch wassa cred t o the S i keldi v in i t ies

,the

”Pa liko i .

Recen t ex ca va t ions ha veconfirmed a monumen ta lcu l t -center t o the Pa liko ihere from t he seventhcen tury B C ,

and ha vedemons tra ted tha t thes i te was con t inuouslyo ccup ied from the

N eo l i th i c Per iod throughthe Roman Emp ire .

The ph i lo sophersEmpedo c les ( c . 4 73 -43 3

B C . ) and Lu cre t ius (94 -5 5

B .C . ) sough t ” s c ien t ificexp lana t ions forvo l can i sm . The ir i dea sabou t i t s causes

,however

,

were h ighly specu la t i ves ince they were basedon l imi ted ob serva t ionand l i t t le do cumen ta t ion .

Empedo c les , a c cording t oone tradi t ion

,was sa i d

t o ha ve commi t tedsu ic i de by jump ing in toE tna

,in tending tha t his

fo l lowers wou ld bel ieve,when they cou ld no t findhis body, tha t he hadbeen ta ken up t o jo inthe gods . Bu t the vo l cano ,

the s tory goes , spewedou t one o f his sanda l s ,thereby revea l ing his truefa te . The na tura lphenomena o f E tna ’sa c t i v i ty were no tsys tema t i ca l ly ob servedand recorded un t i l the1 6 th century .

In Mex i co,the vo l cano

Popo ca tepe t l has longbeen a c t i ve . A t lea s ttw i ce in the la s tyears i t has hadma jorerup t ions tha t deva s ta tedthe se t t lement s on i t ss lopes, and there i s feartha t i t may soon doso aga in,

ha ving reneweda c t i v i ty in 1 994 . In the

firs t cen tury B C ,3

3 9 Brandeis Review

The S i kel legends became

incorpora ted intosub seq uen t Greek , andthen Roman my tho logy .

In Greek my tho logy, thegian t Typhoeu s rebel ledaga ins t the ru le of Zeu s ,was defea ted

,andwas

p la ced in the Underworldw i th M t . E tna on t op ofhim t o p in him down .

The rumb l ingear thqua kes tha t precedeerup t ions were a t tribu tedt o an uncom for tab leTyphoeu s sh i f t ing abou tunderground, wh i le thev io len t erup t ionsthemselves werein terpre ted as an angry

rea c t ion by the same

gian t . Ano ther my th heldtha t the no i se and a c t i v i tywere the ou tpu t fromt he forge of the god offire; the g ian t , one-eyedC yclopes worked theforge, c rea t ing thel igh tn ing bo l ts w i thwh i ch Zeus (Roman

Jup i ter ) ru led theun i verse . The vo l can i ci s land Vu l cano

,jus t o ff

the coa s t of S ic i ly, wasone o f the s i tes i den t ifiedas the lo ca t ion of Vu l can’sforge .

Fishermen inthe town of Pozzuo l i c

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that they couldno longer t ie the i r boats to the

S o lfa t a ra , a cont inuouslyac tive vo lc ano



Brandeis Univers i tyVis i ts PalmBeach inJ anuary 2002

Trust ee Art andAnnie S and ler

Trust ee S ylvia Hassenfe ld and Trust ee Henry, Fellow Lo is, and Fe llow Milt on Gra lla and Ra b b Gera ld and S andra FinebergCha ir o f t he Bo a rd o f Trust ees Jo hn Fost er S emina r S pea ker D ebo ra hS t ephenKay Lipst adt , M .A.

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72 , Ph .D.

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Fe llow Irma Mann a nd N o rman S t ea rns, Trust ee Lo is Trust ee S t anley andTe d dy FellowsThe lma Linsey andMa rilyn Co hen, witha nd N o rman S ilverman Fe ldb erg S t ephen a nd Ro b ert a Weiner


N ew ly Hoo de d Fe llow Milt onWo lf and family: S t eve and Ka ren Mo rt and Ba rb a ra Mande l

Wec hsler,Wo lf, S he rriWo lf, N ancyWo lf, E ric Greenfie ld

Me l N essel, Ga ilAb ra ham, Fe llow Herb Lee , and President Ro b ert and Ellen Ja ffe , Pa lm Bea ch Da ily N ews S oc iet y E d it o r S hannonJ ehuda Re inha rz D onnelly, N ancy K .W insh ip , Rut h and Trust ee C a rl S hapiro

Fe llows Gladys and S y Ziv wit h President Re inha rz Howa rd and Mic he le Kessler wit h S hula Re inha rz, Ha rry and He lenPresident Re inha rz S to ll


Brandeis N ight2002 inF lor ida

On January 1 5 , R ichard andC o l leen Fa in,

parents ofSara Fa in ’

98, generous ly

hos ted a reception wi thPresident Jehuda Reinharz,Ph.D.

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72,in their home

in C ora l Gables , Florida .

Brandei s N ights a l lowPres ident Reinharz to bringgreet ings from campus t oa lumni

,parents, Fel lows ,

and friends in various ci t iesaround the country . His

ta lk,

”Brandei s Universi ty

A Jewel in the C rown of

American HigherEduca t ion

, gave examplesof the innova t ive andexci ting program of learninga t Brandei s tha t empha sizesan interdis cipl inaryapproach to knowledge andthe so lut ion of rea l - l i feprob lems .

Newly E lected Fel lows

In October 200 1 , the Boardof Trus tees vo ted t o electAmba ssadorM i l ton A . Wol f,Ph .D. (C leveland), C harles B .

Housen (Bos ton), andAnnaC heskisGelman (N ew York )asmembers of the Boardof Fel lows . Each of thesenew Fel lows wi l l serve athree-year term throughC ommencement 2004 .

AmbassadorM i l ton A .Wo l fhas been the cha ir ofM i l tonA. Wo l f Inves tors, a priva teinves tment group, since


1 980 . He hadbeen the cha irof Zehman-Wol fManagement Inc .

, a rea les ta te management anddevelopment firm,

from1 94 8 to 1 976 , before servingas the U S . Ambassadorto Aus tria from 1 977 t o

1980 . AmbassadorWo l f wasan early supporter of theUniversi ty’s C levelandcampa igns andhas been a

member of the GSIEF Board

of Overseers since 1 998 .

C harles B . Housen i s cha irand C EO of ErvingIndustries

,Inc .

,a

Ma ssa chuset ts firm tha tmanufactures paper

President J ehuda Re inha rz,

Ph .D.

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72 , S a ra Fa in’

9 8 , and

Co lleen and Ric ha rd Fa in

products from recycledwas te paper. At Brandei s,Housen has been a

President ’s C ounci lor s ince1 976 and is the immedia tepas t cha ir of the GSIEFBoard of Overseers . He andhiswi fe, Marjorie GrodnerHousen ’

56,a Brandei s

Trus tee, have two nameddes igna tions : HousenN eurobio logy Sui te in theVolen N a t iona l C enter forC omplex Systems and theHousen Founda tionEndowed Scholarship .

Anna C heskisGelman is thecous in of the la te JosephC heskis

,a professor a t

Middlesex Univers i ty in thela te 1 93 0 5 and 1 940 5 whobecame a Brandei s professorof romance languages andeventua l ly cha ir of theSchool ofHumani ties unt i lhis retirement in 196 7 .

Gelman retired fromC o lumbia Univers i ty in1 980 as a ssi stant professor ofpubl i c health/epidemiologya fter 4 0 years as a facu l tymember. Gelman haswri t ten a memo ir of JosephC heskis for the Robert D.

Farber Univers i ty Archives .


Brandei s N ight 200 1 inC hi cago was held onOctober 3 0 a t the ParkHya t t Ho tel . More than1 1 0 a lumni , parents , friendsof the Univers i ty, andmembers of BU N WC weretrea ted to the pol i t ica l

campus upda te . Thoma s andMargo t Pri tzker, P ’

OZ,

sponsoredBrandeis N ight .C lub pres ident DavidDesser ’

90 andmembers ofthe Alumni C lub of C hi cagos teering commi t tee servedas greeters andhosts for the

ins ights and commentary evening.

ofWi l l iam Schneider '

66 .

President Re inha rz, Ma rgo t

President Re inharz Prit zker,William S c hne ide r '

6 6

addressed the ga thering,bringing greetings and a

Other Events

Joan andMa rkWa rshaw receive t he S a c ha r Lega cy S o c iety President J ehuda Reinha rz, Ph .D.

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72, wit h Rut h '

8 0 and

c ert ific a t e from Provost Me l Bernst ein and S eniorVice President fo r Jonat han Fa in a t their Rho de Island home where t hey he ld aInst it ut iona l Advancement N ancy K .Winsh ip onOct ober 1 1 , 20 0 1 . rec ep t ion for a lumni, pa rents, and friends.

The S a c ha r Lega cy S oc iety rec ognizes individua lswho have inc ludedBrande is in t heir est at e p lans.



Fa culty

S ilvia Ma rina ArromAssocia te Professor of La t inAmerican Hi s tory on Jane’sC ha ir andDirector, La tinAmeri can S tudies Program

In 1 774 Mexico C i ty leaderscrea ted the Mexi co C i tyPoor House— an experimentto el imina te poverty andimpose a new work ethi con former beggars byes tabl i shing a forcibleinternment pol i cy for someand put ting o thers t o work .

In this book the author tel l sthe saga of this i l l - fa ted plan.

Arrom a l so l inks the PoorHouse’s transforma t ion wi thother societa l factors aswel l

,

such asMexi canwomen’sincreasing impact on socia lwelfare po l icies .


landscape wi th human

figureDuke Univers i ty Press

C ampo wri tes candidpoemsfrom outs ide the academy,poems tha t ari se from a

b leak Boston tenement ora moonl i t Spani sh plaza,poems tha t rema in una fra idto explore and celebra te hisident i ty as a doctor andC uban-American

, gay man.

C ampo ’s poetry reminds usof the necess i ty of poetryin our increasingly fracturedsociety; hiswri t ing bringsus together into the warmcircle of communi ty andconnectedness .

Ray J a c kendo ff

Pro fessor of Lingu i s t ics andVo len N a t iona l C enter forC omplex Systems

Founda tions of Language:Bra in, Meaning , Grammar,

EvolutionOxfordUniversi ty Press

Founda tions of Languageopens up new perspect iveson everyma jor aspect oflanguage andcommuni ca t ion: grammar,vocabulary, learning, originsof language, and therela tionship of language andthought to the rea l world.

I t pu ts l ingu i s ti cs a t thecenter of the search forunders tanding human

na ture andhuman cogni t ion.

Thi s book makesconnect ions wi thpsycho logy, neuroscience,bio logy, phi losophy, andevolu t ionary theory .

KananMa kiyaAdjunct Pro fessor ofM iddleEas tern S tudies

The Rock : A Ta le of SeventhC entury Jerusa lemPantheon Books

Whose rock is enshrinedinside the go ldenDomeof Jerusa lem? The rock ofMoses or the rock ofMuhammad?The authorga thers together the s tories,legends , andbel iefs tha tdefine the Rock— and

transforms them into anarra t ive of novel i s ti c depthanddrama . Makiya givesus a medi ta t ion on the

common terra in of the

world’s three grea tmono thei s t i c rel igions anda remarkable invest iga t ioninto wha t the Rocksymbol izes— beyond i tsvarious stories andnames,beyond even the three fa i thsa t whose hea rt i t si ts .


A N ap for ZapTake a Trip to Plane t BlipScholast ic/Word Fami lyTa lesTM

Word Fami ly Ta les are

humorous,read-a loud

s tories crea ted to bui ldearlyphonics ski l ls by tea chingchi ldren to recognize

” fami l ies" ofwords tha tshare the same spel l ingpa t tern. Thi s key readings tra tegy helps kids decodenewwords wi th ease— and

become stronger readers ,wri ters

,and spel lers .

I C an Wri teMy ABC sQui ck e) C rea tive Activi tiesScho las ti c

Help kids of all learningstyles wri te their ABC swi ththese super-crea t ive

,

hands-ou activi t ies for everylet ter of the a lphabet . Kidswi l l love learning to wri telet ters wi th activi t ies suchasApple AS , Fingerprint F5 ,Jumping Jacks Is, andmany

more .


I C an Wri teMy ABC sMiniBooks

Scho las ti c

Help every kid proudly say” I c anwri temy ABC s” wi th26 terrific interact ive minibooks— one for each let ter ofthe a lphabet .

Looking for help ful wayst o teach s tudents who arelearning Engl i sh as a secondlanguage— andwelcome

them into your classroom?

Thi s easy-to—use guideconta ins helpful t ips forpreparing for your news tudents

,assess ing their

needs and ab i l i t ies,and

communica t ingwi th thes tudents ’ fami l ies .

S ue Peka rsky Gary'

6 0

Gary hasbeen a garmentmanufacturer for eight yearsand i s a teacher of fashionstudies curri cula a tC a l i fornia co l leges .

C over Yourself:Adventures in the Rag Tradefrom S tar t Ups to S tarsGarment oSpeak

Thi s trade book incorpora testhe stories

,from interviews,

of 4 5 people invo lved ina ll aspec ts of the clo thingindustry, from fashioni l lus tra tor t o space sui tdesigner for N ASA . Most

books about the garmentindustry are ca se s tudies

,

how- to stories,or surveys in

industry informa t ion. Thi sbook is di fferent . I t tel l s thes tories of the peoplewhoget the goods from idea tohanger.

Frederic k E . Greenspa hn,

Ph .D.

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Greenspahn i s professorof rel igious s tudies a t theUnivers i ty ofDenver.

An In troduct ion to Arama i cSociety of Bibl i ca l Li tera ture

This book is a ba sicintroduction to bibl ica lArama i c for beginnings tudents who are a lreadyfami l iarwi th Hebrew. All

Arama ic passages in theOldTestament are included,a longwi th an introduc tiont o o ther Arama ic texts , suchas ancient inscript ions,Dead Sea Scro l ls , rabbini cl i tera ture, and quo ta t ionsin the N ew Testament .There are a l so pa radigms,a complete glossary, and al i s t of resources for furthers tudy .

Danie l J . Guhr, M.A.

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Access to Higher Educa tionin Germany and C a liforniaPeter Lang

In his comparison of accesst o higher educa t ion pa t ternsin Germany and C a l i forniabetween the 1 970 5 and1 990 5

,the author

demonstra tes tha t upwardeduca t iona l mobi l i ty wasra ther l imi ted in Germanydespi temarked changes ingenera l socioeconomiccompos i t ion. C onversely,s trong parti cipa t ion shif tsoccurred in C a l i fornia basedon changing ethni ccompos i t ion. He a l soana lyzes the a t times dra s ti cimpa ct of educa t iona l po l icymaking too l s such asa ffirma t ive a ct ion andneed

based funding .

Thi s book responds t o thequest ion,

wha t iscommuni ty? I t i s a l so aresponse t o wha t the authorperceives t o becontradic t ions betweenrecent a cademi c thinkingabout communi ty andcommuni t ies as they arel ived. Deba tes havecha l lenged the l i kel ihoodof genuine communi ty l i fevs . numerous examples ofcontemporarycommuni t ies— dynami c andproviding the desiredqua l i t ies of shared existence.

David I. Kert zer, Ph .D.

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Kert zer i s Paul Dupee, Jr.

Universi ty Pro fessor ofSocia l Science and apro fessor of anthropologyand Ita l ian s tudies a t BrownUnivers i ty .

The Popes aga inst the Jews :The Va ti can ’

5 Role in the

R ise ofModernAntiSemi t ismAl fredA. Knopf

shows how the C a tho l icC hurch helpedmake theHo locaust poss ible . The

author shows why a ll therecent a t tent ion given t oPope Pius XII ’s fa i lure t opub l ic ly pro test thes laughter of Europe’s Jewsin the warmi sses a farmore important po int . Wha tmade the Ho locaus t poss iblewas groundwork la id over aperiod of decades . Thi s bookseeks a ba lanced judgmentand an unders tanding of thehi s torica l forces tha t led theC hurch a long the pa th i ttook .

N eil J . Kresse l'

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M.A.

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andDori t F. Kressel . N ei lKressel, a socia lpsycho logis t a t Wi ll iamPa terson Univers i ty of N ewJersey, has taught a t Harvard,N ew York Universi ty, andel sewhere .

S ta ck and Sway : The N ewScience of Jury C onsul tingWestview Press

A new and largely hiddenpro fession has emergedduring the pas t threedecades . Drawing on thetechniques ofmodern socia lscience

,psycho logy, and

ma rket resea rch, i tspract i t ioners seek t o remakethe way we pursue justi cein the Uni ted S ta tes . Tria lconsul tants help lawyers to

pi ck juries predi sposed torender the

”right” verdi ct .

Wha t are we t o make ofthi s new industry ? 15 thi sa new form of high- techjury-rigging, no t muchmoreacceptable than cruderforms of jury tampering?Thi s book wi l l revea l the

” tricks of the trade.

”

Lanc e Lee'

6 4

Lee i s a drama tis t,novel i s t

,

andwri ter.

Becoming HumanAu thors C ho i ce Press

Becoming Human i s Lee’ssecondbook of poetry . His

work covers various topi cs,including chi ldhood,wi ldl ife

,and the sel f . Mart in

Bax,edi tor of Ambi t,

England’s leading artsquarterly, ca l l s i t, ”

[a]splendidnew co l lection.

Lance Lee knows wha t i ttakes and proves i tskil lful ly .

Robert a Ma ise l’

55

Ma isel tra ined as asocio logis t and i s now a

media tor specia l izing incommuni ty confl i c treso lu t ion and peacemakingwi thin fami l ies .

For the baby boom

genera t ion,the joy of

Adult Cbi/dmr

R O B E R T A M A I S E L

becoming grandparents iso ften temperedby ongo inguncerta inty about how to be

parents t o their grown up

chi ldren— especia l ly s inceincreasedhea l th andlongevi tymeans they couldshare asmuch as 40 yearstogether as adul ts . AllGrown Up shows howmidl ife parents and their grownchi ldren c an celebra te thi snew lease on l ife together.

The C op Who R idesAloneand o ther poemsZoo Press


Thi s is the firs t col lect ionofMart in’s poems . Thevo lume offers ma turewi sdom and a l ively,confident playfulness rarelyseen inmany firs t books .At once urbane andsad,funny and ero ti c, thepoetry ’s prosody i s deftlyhandled and apropos , i tsthemes uniquely fondledbyMart in’s agi le, crea t ive, andoften apparently off-handedthough frighteningly precisewi t .

Goa fi ne

and ot h of poems b .)

Ross ti a r". 1 n

Dia L. Mic he ls '

8 0

M i chels is a wri ter of booksfor adul ts and chi ldren. She

makes her home in

Wa shington,DC

,wi th her

husband and their threechi ldren.

In pho tographs and s implewords, young readers share aguessing game wi th a baby .

Accompaniedby her fami ly,Baby finds hersel f wakingup in seven neighborhoodsi tua t ions . At firs t

,she

focuses on a deta i l,but then

,

as the page turns, an entirescene i s revea led.

IfMyMomWere a Pla typus:Anima l B abies and theirMo thersPla typus Media

Mo thers and babies . Babiesandmo thers . They areeverywhere— in caves

,

burrows,dens

,fields

,

ki tchens,and bedrooms . All


babies have to ea t,learn

,

grow, andma ture. Each onemust embark on the journeyto ma turi ty, but the pa thvaries depending on theyoungmamma l .

Za ck in theMiddlePla typus Media

Any 7-year-oldboy— l ike

Zack— can tell you tha thaving one sis ter i s p lenty .

So wha t is a boy t o dowhen he i s surroundedbys is ters ? Wi th a busy andbossy big s is ter ahead ofhim

,and a mi s chievous and

messy l i t t le si s ter behindhim

,Zack learns t o love

being surrounded.

Dia L. Miche ls'

8 0 , ed.

Anyone can change a baby’sdiaper, rock a baby t o s leep ,and take a baby for awa lk

,but only a woman

can provide tha t chi ldwi ththe perfect food: breas t mi lk .

Brea s t feeding i s a perfect lyna tura l ac t

,but l ike o ther

na tura l events, i t may provemore difficul t for somewomen tha t o thers .N evertheless , i t is a lwaysworth the effort because ofi ts overwhe lming benefi ts t obo th mother andbaby.

Breastfeeding a t a Glance:Fa c ts, Figures, and Triviaabout La c ta tionPla typus Media

In today’s day and age,a breas t feedingmother inAmeri ca can sometimesandeven often— feel qui tei so la ted. Shemight be thefirs t woman in her fami lyt o nurse a chi ld in severa lgenera t ions . Bu t throughouthis tory and around theworld

,breast feeding is and

hasbeen a source ofconnect ion and communi tyaswomen share theirknowledge and experiencewi th each other.

PaulMona c o , Ph .D.

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Monaco i s professor ofc inema/video and the head

ofmedia and thea ter artsa t Montana S ta te Uni vers i ty,Bozeman.

An ever-diminishingaudience led t o a pos t -WorldWar 11 low in product ionof fea ture fi lms in 1 963 .

The s tudio sys tem tha tcontro l led the careers ofma jor s tars and thea tercha ins fina l ly gave way t oa new business environment .The Production C ode tha thadmoni tored the contentofAmerican film for decadeswas overwhelmed and

replacedby a ra t ings system.

N onfiction film in the 1 960 5didno t engage the socia ldynamic of the decade t o theextent tha t might have beenexpected.


Making a D ifference

Arlene Go ldsmit h '

59 wit h one o f t hehundreds of c hildren she has he lped

5 4 Brandeis Review

Arlene is tha t she left avery secure and respons iblepos i tion a t the C ounci l onSocia l Work Educa t ion toundertake wha t appearedt o be an impossible task .

Taking on a sys tem tha twas abandoning chi ldren toins ti tut ions could only beaccomplishedby someone

wi th her seniori ty andsophis t ica t ion. Thi s isexact ly the way tha t theseproblems should bechampioned but i t ’s a lmostnever done.

N AC was s tarted on a

shoestring but soon becamea driving force inmovingchi ldren out of the hospita l .Goldsmi th ’s approach was,and rema ins

,deceptively

s imple: she bel ieves tha tevery chi ld i s adoptable— i f,of course

,a reunionwi th

the bio logica l fami ly is no tposs ible. In addi t ion t ohaving pla cedhundreds ofchi ldren in permanentadoptive homes, Goldsmi thhas developedcomprehens ive services forbio logica l fami l iesrecognizing tha t, wi th theright kind of support, mos tfami l ies who thought theycou ldno t bring theirchi ldren home can care forthem wi th grea t success .

She i s an espec ia l lyhands-ou manager, who i soften stopped in the ha l lwayby chi ldren visi t ing theagency— indeed she knowsa ll of their names . Yet shea cknowledges tha tfund-ra ising takes up aninordina te amount of t ime .

N AC is able to providemany services tha t o theragencies don’t— fromhelping t o remodel a homet o accommoda te a newwheelcha ir to sending

di sabled chi ldren to campthrough priva te fund-ra i s ing.

N AC must ra i se about $2mi l l ion of i ts annua l $8mi l l ion budget ; the res t isprovidedby ci ty, s ta te, andfedera l contracts .

We have t o ra ise significantpriva te funds , ” saysGo ldsmi th

,

”but i t ’s wha t

has enabledme to hireonly M .S .W.swho tru lyunders tandhow t o helpfami l ies . These funds a l soenable us to lower theirca seloads and t o obta inthings tha t the chi ldrenrea l ly needbut tha tMedi ca idwon’t pay for. Jus tbui lding ramps can meantha t kids can go ou ts ide andrea l ly feel l i ke they’

re partof this world.

”

In 1 994 , Go ldsmi th wasamong the secondgroup ofrecipients of theC ommuni ty Hea l thLeadership Award from the

Robert Woods JohnsonFounda t ion— a programadminis teredby C a therineDunham. Says Dunham,

”What Arlene has done isshow tha t one of themos tdifficu l t, dysfunctiona lsystems in the country canbe turned around to supportfami l ies and chi ldren wi thvery difficul t and complexproblems . Havingdemonstra ted i t in the mo stcomplica ted system in the

country shouldgive hopet o other communi t ies wherechi ldren are st i l l trapped asboarder babies .

Goldsrni th’

s

accomplishments werefurther a cknowledged in1 998 by two highlypres tigious awards : theLewi s Hine Award,presented to her by theN a t iona l C hi ld LaborC ommi t tee, and the Hero ’sAward fromThe RobinHood Founda tion.

She i s cons ideredby herown sta ff and o thers in thechi ld-wel fare communi ty t ohave a specia l vision fordi sabled chi ldren

,seeing the

abi li ties of chi ldrenwi thdisabil i ties, unhinderedbytheir phys ica l or financia lcons tra int s .

Go ldsmi th ’s phi losophy i spersonified in Tayo, an1 8 -

year-oldboy wi th

cerebra l pa l sy . Tayo hadspent his firs t eight yearsof l i fe in a ho spi ta l becausehis parents were unable t ocare for him. The s ta ffa t N AC bel ieved tha t hishospita l iza t ion was

medica l ly unnecessary andtha t he wouldbe far bet teroff l iving outs ide of thehospi ta l . They ini t ia tedproceedings to make himel igible for foster care andthen recrui ted a wonderful,caring woman t o becomehis fos ter

,andeventua l ly

adop tive,mo ther. Over the

years,N AC has provided

intens ivemedi ca l supportand counsel ing, aswel l asrecrea t iona l a ctivi t ies, toTayo andhis fami ly. In

the spring of 20 0 1 , hegradua ted as va ledic torianof his Long Islandhighschoo l and receivedin scho larship funds toa t tendHofs tra Universi ty,where he has been accepted.

”Tha t ’s wha t i t ’s all about , ”says Go ldsmi th, beaming .

— Barbara Kanc elbaum

Barba ra Kancelbaum is

a freelance wri ter l iving inBrooklyn, N ew York .


A lumni C lubs

C ontac t any of the clubleaders via the ema i laddresses below,

or ca l l theOffice ofDevelopment andAlumni Rela t ions forinforma t ion a t

78 1 -73 6 -4 1 00 . Pleaseconta ct the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexua l/TransgenderAlumni N etwork or theM inori ty Alumni N etworkdirectly t o be includedontheirma i l ing l i s ts .

Domest icArizonaRona ld ”

Ron Lowe’

69

arizona@alumni .brandeis.edu

Ba lt imo re

Barbara Kirsner Berg’76

balt imore@alumni .brandeis.edu

Great er Bost on

E llen Beth Lande ’73 and

Detlev Suderow ’

70

bost on@a lumni .brandeis.edu

N o rt hernC a lifo rnianorthca lifornia@

a lumni .brandeis.edu

S out hern C a liforniaAlbert B . Spevak ’

73

sou thca lifornia@

alumni .brandeis.edu

C ha rlo t t eRuth Abrams Go ldberg ’

53

andAudrey Rogovin

Madans’

53

charlot te@aliunni .brandeis.edu

C hic ago

DavidDesser ’

90

chicago@alumni .brandeis.edu

C inc inna t iC harles “

C huck and

Darlene Green Kamine ’74

cinc inna t i@alumni .brandeis.edu

S out hern Florida

Gi lbert ”Gi l ” Drozdow ’79

sou thflorida@


West C o ast Florida

Sylv ia Ha ft Firschein ’

55

and Joan A . Greenberger

Gurgold’

53

westflorida@alumni .brandeis.edu

Houst on

M i chael Kivort ’

8 7

houston@alumni .brandeis.edu


For a current ca lendarof activi ties and a lldeta i l s , Vis i ta lumni .brandeis.edu, or

wa tch yourma i l forinvi ta t ions to the fol lowingprograms (sub ject tochange )


Alumni C lub of Grea t erBost on

Sunday, May 5

Alumni Ma tinee a t Spingold”C i ty of Angel s ”

Wednesday, May 1 5

Downtown Lunch Series :”The Science BehindArt :Didvan Eyck use lensesa ndPicasso neuroscience?” wi thM i chael Henchman,

Pro fessor of C hemi s try

Long IslandJa imeD. Ezra t ty

’

86

longisland@alumni .brandeis.edu

N ort hern N ew JerseyDavid Spiler ’

86

northnewjersey@


S out hern N ew JerseyS tephen ”

S teve”

Scheintha l’87

southnewjersey@


N ew Yo rk C it yVictor ”Vic ” N ey ’

8 1

nyc@a lumni .brandeis.edu

Philade lphiaTamara ”

TammyC hasan ’

9 1

phi ladelphia@a lumni .brandeis.edu

Washing t on,D.C .

Phyl l i s Brenner C oburn ’

75

washingtondc@


West chest er C ount y

Susan EpsteinDeutsch ’62

westchester@alumni .brandeis.edu

Alumni C lub of Israe lSunday, May 1 2

Reception wi th Pres identJehuda Reinharz, Ph .D.

’

72

in Jerusa lem

Int erna t iona lEng landJoan Givner Bova rnick,Ph.D.

’

69

england@alumni .brandeis.edu

Israe lRose ShirwindtWeinberg ’

5 7

israel@a lumni .brandeis.edu

Ko rea

SukWon Kim ’

70

korea@a lumni .brandeis.edu

Toront o

Mark A. Surchin ’

78

toronto@a lumni .brandeis.edu

Aff init y Groups

Gay/ Lesb ian/ Bisexua l/TransgenderAlumniN etwork

M ichael Hammerschmidt ’72glb t@alumni .brandeis.edu

Mino rit yAlumni N etwo rkJoseph Perkins ’

6 6

man@alumni .brandeis.edu

Fut ure Alumni of B randeisMaryanne V. C ul l inan ’

02

andEl ida Kamine ’

03

fab@alumni .brandeis.edu

Alumni C lub of

West chest er C ount y

Sunday, May 1 9”Reflect ions on Aging: Ourmothers , fa thers , ourselveswi th Irene AndermanGutheil

’

6 6,Pro fessor,

Gradua te Schoo l of Socia lService, FordhamUniversi ty, inWhi te Pla ins

Alumni C o llegeFriday, June 7

Alumni Reunion

Friday, June 7-Sunday, June 9


A lumni Events

Alumni C lub ofWashing t on,D.C .

On N ovember 4 , the clubhosted a Facul tyin- the

Field event wi th Judi thTsipis, pro fessor of bio logyanddirector, Genet i cC ounsel ing Program. Jan

So lomon ’

73 hosted theevent in her home inWa shington,

D.C .,for the

loca l a lumni and theirguests .

Alumni C lub o fWest chest er C ount y

Professor of Socio logyGordon Fel lman spokeabou t hisbook

,Rambo and

theDa la i Lama : The

C ompulsion to Win and

I ts Threa t to HumanSurvival , and the effects ofthe September 1 1 terrori s ta t tack on October 28 a tthe home of Susan Eps teinDeutsch ’

62,president of

the Alumni C lub ofWes tches ter C ounty, inHast ings -on-Hudson.

Reunion2002

Reconnec t .

1 952,1 95 7, 1962, 1 96 7, 1972,

1 977, 1 982, 1 987, 1 992, 1 997

C a l l ing a ll a lumni whogradua ted in a year ending in2 or 7 ! The Brandeis campuswi l l once aga in be yoursto explore June 7-9 ,From fa cul ty presenta tionst o class parties and campustours , we’ve go t i t a ll ! Bring


Ma ssa c huse tts S t a t eRepresenta t ive J ay Ka ufman

'

6 8

spea ksw it h student s a t t heWo rld of Law a nd Po lit ics event

Recent Gradua t es

N etwo rk

The Recent Gradua tesN etwork of Bos tonsponsored a Wine Tas t ingC lass on September 1 2 a tBes t C el lars in Brookline .

Wendy Morris ’95 organized

the event . On October 24the Recent Gradua tesN etwork of N ew York C i tyhos ted a socia l ga theringandnetworking event a tSession 73 res taurant/lounge on the Upper Eas tS ide. Eri ca Lowenfels ’

98

andBramWeber ’97 serve as

cocha irs for the commi t tee.

If you would l i ke t o helpwi th the N etwork in yourci ty, contact your loca l clubpresident (see page 56 ) orca l l Au tumnHaynes,associa te director of a lumnirela tions , a t 800 -3 33 - 1 94 8 ,

[email protected] .

Fut ure Alumni of Brande isTheWorldof Law and

Po l i ti cs washeldonOctober 25 . Massachuset tsS ta te Representa t ive JayKaufman

’

6 8 gave thekeyno te address . O ther

the fami ly and enjoy a veryspecia l Brandei s weekend.

Truly rel ive your col legeexperience by takingadvantage of our ou—campushousing Option— now

ava i lable wi thout parieta lhours . Or you may chooseto s tay a t one of the areaho tel s . TheWes t inHotel[78 1 -290 -5600 ) and theDoubleTree Gues t Sui tes(78 1 -890 -6 76 7 ) are o fferingSpecia l Brandei s Reunionra tes .

Regis tra tion ma teria ls wi l lbe ma i led in the spring, butdon

’t wa i t ! Informa t ion isnow ava i lable on theWeb a t

web/reunions/20 02.

’

The C lass of 1 952 wi l lcelebra te i ts 50 th Reunionon the weekend ofMay

24 -26 . See page 6 1 fordeta i l s .

a lumni gues ts haddinnerwi th E l ida Kamine ’

03 ,

Gregg Leppo ’

03,andAdam

Perl in ’

03 , themembersof the Future Alumni ofBrandei s who helpedorganize the event . Af terthe keyno te address, theinvi ted a lumni gave a briefintroduct ion about theircareers and areas ofexperti se. They were thensea tedso s tudents couldspeak wi th them and ask

ques t ions .

a lumni gues ts includedSusanna C hi lnick ’

99,

s tudent,Boston C o l lege Law

School , M i t chel l C ohen ’

76 ,

a t torney, Gordon Bro thersPartners, Inc . ; MiniardC u lpepper ’

77,ass is tant

genera l counsel for N ewEngland, Department ofHous ing andUrbanDevelopment ; Ga i l KlevenGelb ’

69 , partner/a t t orney,Gelb St Gelb, LLP; JuanMarcel Marcel ino ’

78,

di s tric t adminis tra tor,U S . Securi t ies andExchange C ommi ss ion;N ancy Brunel l M i tchel l ’75

,

a t torney, C ommonwea l th ofMa ssachuset ts, Departmentof Environmenta lManagement; WendyMorris ’

95 , a t torney,Kirkpa trick 81 Lockhart

,

LLP; andLawrenceUchill ’

69,

a t torney, Brown Rudni ckBerlack Israels LLP. The

FamilyWeekend Lega cy

Recept ion

On N ovember 3 , theAlumni Associa t ion and

Future Alumni of Brandei shos ted a Legacy Receptionin the Facul ty C enterrecognizing current s tudentswi th fami ly t ies t o Brandeisa lumni as part ofFamilyWeekendDavid ’

73 and Phyll is

Brenner’

75 C oburn,parents

of Avi C oburn’

04, gave

a brief welcome to theBrandei s fami l ies ina t tendance

,and then Opened

the recept ion up for gues tsto meet and reuni te wi thone ano ther.

Mino rit yAlumni N etwork

TheM inori tyAlumniN etwork (MAN ) promo tesuni ty and networkingamongminori ty a lumnithrough educa t iona l , careerdevelopment

,communi ty,

and so c ia l events . TheN etwork provides a l ink andsupport mechani sm t o the

grea ter Brandei s communi tyof s tudents, facul ty, sta ff,and fel low a lumni c lubsand organiza t ions . C ha iredby Joseph Perkins ’

66,the

Bos ton N etwork met oncampus on N ovember 1 8for a fa l l reception

,wi th

Al lan Kei ler,professor of

music . The group viewed‘

0 , Wri teMy N ame ’

:

Ameri can Portra i ts-Harlem

Lou ie-Net

TheAlumni Associa tionnowo ffers i tsmembers new online

services through itsWebsiteat

Alumni may regi s ter on thi ssecure s i te for a usernameandpassword to accessLouie-mam“and an a lumnionl ine directory. Whi le youare there you may a l soupda te your contac tinforma t ion wi th theUnivers i ty, submi t a C lassN o te

,view a schedule of

upcoming events, andmore !

Heroes, a photographicexh ibi t by C arl Van Vechten.

Kei ler,author ofMarian

Anderson: A S inger '

s

Journey, held a l ivelydi s cuss ion about Anderson’sl i fe andwork . The N ew

York C i ty N etwork a l sohos tedKei ler in February .

TheWashington,D.C .

,

N etwork a lso plans for aspring program. If youwould l i ke t o become

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Find and contact formercla ssma tes through theOnl ineDirectory ! OnlyBrandei s a lumni whoregi s ter wi l l be able toaccess thi s informa t ion on

our secureWebsi te . Alumniwi l l have the option t oshow or h ide their contac tinforma tion. A terms andcondi tions agreement tha teach regi s tereduser acceptspro tects you from directorymi suse .

G/ L/ B /TAlumni N etwo rkThe Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender

Alumni N etworkis growing in number wi thmore than 3 50 sel fident ifiedmembers . Thenetwork is looking todevelop programming andnetworking events in theBoston

,N ew York C i ty, and

San Francisco areas , aswel las t o fos ter a s trongerrela tionship wi th s tudentsby workingwi th s tudentorganiza t ions such asTriskel ion (The GLBTQ SAAl l iance ), BiSpace, QueersUni tedAga ins t Defama t ion(QUAD), and Sha lem( Jewi sh G/L/B/T Group ) . I fyou are interes ted in jo ining

To regis ter, just po int yourWeb browser t o

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to Louie-N et and thenRegis tra t ion. C omplete thefields wi th your first andlast names

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whi ch you received yourfirs t Brandeis degree, yourclass year, and the lastfour digi ts of your socia lsecuri ty number, andyouare ready t o go ! Shouldyou have any quest ions ,please conta ct AutumnHaynes, associa te directorof a lumni rela tions, a t78 1 -73 6 -40 4 1 or ema il

Wi th the goa l of providingl ifelong learningopportuni t ies , the AlumniAssocia t ion has partneredwi th Alumni Ho l idays ’Alumni C ampus Abroadprogram to offer aneduca t iona l experience in an

interna tiona l environmentconducive t o learning,recrea t ion

,and fel lowship .

Fol lowing a successful firstseason wi th trips t oProvence andTuscany, theBrandeis Univers i ty AlumniAssocia t ion i s pleased toannounce trips t o Greeceand C uba in 2002 .

Greece

On June 25 - July 4 , 2002,Pres ident Ichuda Reinharz

,

Ph .D.

’

72,and Professor

Shulami t Reinharz,Ph .D.

’

77,wi l l hos t an

extraordinary, a ll- inclus ivetrip t o Greece. Ba sed on

Be a Part of the

Pro fesso r S hulamit Reinha rz,Ph .D.

'

7 7 , and PresidentJ ehuda Reinha rz, Ph .D.

'

72

the beaut i ful i sland villageof Poros , lo ca ted just offthe coast of Athens , youneed only unpack once asa ll of your excurs ions andact ivi t ies begin and end

a t the Ho tel N ew Aegli .Thi s cul tura l immersionwi l l offer an unprecedentedopportuni ty t o experiencethe loca l cul ture andpeopleof Poros and the surroundingregion .

C ub a

Redi scover C uba,a

cul tura lly andhi s tori ca l lyri ch country tha t has beenclosed to the U S . travelerfor 40 years . Scheduled forOctober 25 -3 1 , 2002, thi sseven-day, s ix -night cul tura lexchange program fea turesaccommoda tions a t theParque C entra l , loca ted inthe center of oldHavana .

Our study program i sopera tedbyWorldguest wi tha l i cense from the U S .

Department of Trea sury topromote cul tura l exchange

Connected Univers ity

Alumni Ment o r ProgramThi s program is a newini tia tive intended toprovide interes ted first -yearstudents wi th an a lumnimentorwho they c anconta ct for resourceinforma t ion

,perspec tive

about the Universi ty, and togenera l ly assis t wi th theirovera l l adjustment t ouniversi ty l i fe . The mentorprogram was conceived byPres ident Reinharz and i sintended to enhance thedevelopment of the

”C onnectedUniversi ty .


As an a lumni mentor, youwi l l be a sked t o :

Part i cipa te in a tra iningprogram t o receiveinforma t ion about thementor ro le and theexpecta tions for therela t ionship wi th yourBrandei s first -year student ;

Provide a wel come t o yourstudent through a no te orphone ca l l ;

ndpeople- t o -peoplecontact . Our trip t o C ubawi l l fea ture numerousexcursions

,aswel l as

presenta tions on thecountry ’s hi s tory and

cul ture. Don’t let this rareeduc a t ionarfravelopportuni ty pa ss by .

Meet wi th your s tudent oncampus a t lea st once eachsemes ter;

At tend a specia l year-enddinner on campus .

Some a l lowances may bemade for qua l ifiedmentorswho do no t l ive in theGrea ter Bos ton area .

If you are interested inbeing cons idered for thi sspecia l role

, please contactM i chele J . Ro sentha l ,associa te dean of

undergradua te academi ca ffa irs and firs t year services ,a t 78 1 -73 6 -3 4 70 or

[email protected], or

Jenni fer Lewis,coordina tor

of theWomen andHea l thIni tia t ive andhea l thprofessions advisor, a t78 1 -73 6 -3 4 70 or

[email protected] .

Trips are Open to a ll

members of the Brandeiscommuni ty and space i sextremely limi ted

,so an

early reserva t ion isessentia l . To reserve yourplace, ca l l AlumniHo l idays a t 800 -3 23 - 73 73 .

For addi t iona l informa t ion,

check the Brandeis Webs i tea t

ca l l the Office of AlumniRela t ions a t 78 1 -74 6 -4 10 0

,

or ema i l t ravel@a lumni .brandeise du .



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B i rths andAdopt ions

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Nathaniel JasonGoldberg toMaria del RocioChavezJordana F.Grand toAndrewH. Levine '

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Karine Shemal to Joshua David RosenbergAnna Kaganto SeanIsaac SavitzMiriam“

Mimi Ruth Sager toMarc JoelYokowitzDanielle E . Auslander toChristopher “

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Deborah L. Banelt toAndrewA.Guillen, J r.JacquelineBraunto JustinGarrodShana E . BrickmantoMatthewScott DuketteMaraHopeGuslmantoRobert S . ShermanIrina Kolovskaya toMichael FazioWendy S . Steinto ScottHarstieldRandi E . Thayerto Douglas E .HortonDaniellaTobintoReubenLiberRobynWhipple toGeoffrey DiazSara Schatz toKennethGoldstein(M.F.A

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00 , TheaterArts )Michael H. Conn(M.A.

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01 , International June30. 2001Economics andFinance) toCaraAnnAisleySamuel ElihuSimon '

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l . The arch i tec t who des igned theBrandei s C hapel s a l so des igned wha tma jor in terna t iona l bu i lding ?

2 .Wh i ch pro fes s iona l ba s ke tba l l teamused t o pra c t i ce a t Brande i s ?

3 . In wh i ch sport does Brandei s ha vemore All-Ameri cans than any o thers choo l in N ew England ?

4 .Wh i ch member of the Brande i sfa cu l ty was a key member of Pres iden t ’sC l in ton’s cab ine t ?

5 .Wh i ch member of the Brande i sfa cu l ty served on t he Pres ident ia lAdvi sory C ommi s s ion on Ho lo cau s tAs se t s in the U n i ted S ta tes ?

6 .Who are the two Brandeis a lumn iwho are the produ cers of the telev i s ionshow Fri ends?

7 . N ame fi ve o ther members of theUn i vers i ty A thle t i c As so c ia t ion (UAA )t o wh i ch Brande i s belongs .

8 .Whi ch F irs t Lady was a member of

the Brande i s Board of Tru s tees ?

9 . N ame the three Brande i s pro fes sorswho are recen t rec ip ien t s of theM a cAr thur Fel lowship .

1 0 . Wh i ch was the firs t dormi tory bu i l ta t Brande i s ?

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1 2 . N ame the Brande i s ma s co t .

1 3 . Who was t he firs t o ffi c ia l Brande i spho tographer?

1 4 .Wha t oncampu s bu i lding is namedfor the inven tor of the Q - t ip

?

1 5 . Wh i ch Brande i s fa cu l ty member

founded the Ameri can s tudiesdepartmen t ?

1 6 . Wh a t s choo l was lo ca ted prev iou s lyon the presen t -day Brande i s campu s ?

1 7 .Wha t is the t i t le of Abram Sa char’

s

book abou t the founding of Brandeis ?

1 8 . For whom was the Brandeisco f feehou se named?

1 9 . Wha t spring t ime celebra t ion namedfor a pro fes sor of fine ar t s i s held oncampu s annua l ly ?

20 .Wh i ch s c ien t i s t len t his name t o the

orig ina l developmen t p lan for Brandei s ?

2 1 . Wha t remarkab le fea t did theBrande i s l ibrary a c comp l i sh in 1 996 ?

22.Wh i ch popu lar s tuden t c lub wasfounded in 1 96 6 ?

23 . In 1 993 , an arch i ves was es tab l i shedfor the persona l papers of wh ich la teN obel laurea te ?

24 . N ame the seven pres iden t s o fBrandei s .

25 .Wha t a ca dem i c a ch ievemen t didBrande i s a t ta in in 1 96 1 ?

26 . Wha t was the U ni vers i ty ’s tribu te t oLou i s D. Brande i s on the o c ca s ion of the

1 0 0 th anni versary of his b irth ?

27 . Wha t Ho l lywood direc tor p layedvarsi ty ba s ke tba l l during his Brande i sundergra dua te days in the s i x t ies ?

28 .Wh i ch former member o f the BostonC el t i c s was recru i ted t o coa ch vars i tybaske tba l l a t Brande i s in 1 966 ?

29 .Wha t Brandeis a lum known forprom inen t invo lvement in the B la c kN a t iona l i s t movemen t ran for U S . Vi cePres i den t in 1 980 on the Ameri canC ommun i s t Party t i c ket ?

3 0 . The 20 0 0 relea se o f S tea l ThisMovie recoun t s the l i fe o fwha t Brandeisa lum?

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32 .Wha t i s a un ique chara c teri s t i cabou t the arch i tec ture of the threechapels a t Brande i s ?

3 3 . Wha t is t he Brande is mo t to tha t isincorpora ted in to the Uni vers i ty sea l ?

3 4 .Where was the inaugura t ion of

Brande i s U n i vers i ty held ?

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I recent ly en joyed the pecul iar plea sureof a ccompanyingmy daughter t o her firs tco l lege interview,

whi ch jus t happened t obe here a t Brandei s . I t o c curred during aspring deluge so symmetrica lly ana logoust o my own 1 965 visi t in a la te- fa l l bl i zzardtha t I could not help but be del ighted .

Mos t po ignant, though, was tha t shewasinterviewed by a manwho

,by the t ime

you read thi s,wi ll have lef t the Un iversi ty

a f ter 3 5 years of servi ce— not count inghis four as an undergradua te— and

whose intellec t andheart have been so

a ssiduous ly devo ted t o Brandei s and therecrui tment of excep t iona l undergradua testha t Iwi ll be forever honored by hisreso lve t o interviewmy o f fspring asone of his fina l official ta sks before hisret iremen t from the Uni versi ty.

M ichael Kala fa t as ’65 came to campus

in the fa l l of 1 962, received a bachelor’sdegree, went off for two years t o earnan advanced degree in educa t ion a t the

H pla ce in C ambridge only because theprogram wasnot ava i lable here, andqu i c kly returned t o Brandei s t o take a

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po s i t ion as an admissions counselor,

never t o s tray aga in. Twenty- three yearsago, in 1 979, he became direc tor ofadmiss ions

,and tha t i s the who le story,

excep t for this :

To have heard M i ke speak abou t Brandei si s t o have been transformed . Of course

,

no t every prospec t i ve student to whomM i ke has spoken came t o Brandei s . Bu tthousands have

, o f ten, there is no doub t ,because ofM ike’s infec t ious passion forthis place and the unma t ched eloquencewi th which he communi ca tes tha tpass ion . Only the mo s t reca lc i trantmouth-brea ther

,dragged t o Brandei s

under extreme duress by a perverselydetermined parent, could return home

ent irely unswayed by an informa t ionses s ion given by so fervent andcompell ing an ora tor.

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interrup ted a relaxing andenjoyable lun chby bounding out of the res taurant boo thand excla iming, ”

Go t ta get ba ck andadmi t somemore grea t ki ds .”

Mi chael Ka lafa t as, paradoxi ca l ly, i s one

whom the Uni vers i ty wi l l not see thel i kes of aga in, yet i s a perfec t example ofthe kind of a lumnus Brandei s produceswi th regulari ty.

Iwi sh him the very best .

The inexhaus t ible reserve of factsobs cure and fa s c ina ting, apt quo ta t ions,anecdo tes

,andbon mo t s, and the beauty,

bri l l iance,and del ight wi th which he

wove his erudi t ion and eloquence intoa tapes try embodying the Universi ty’sessent ia l chara c ter are go ing t o be deeplymissed . So wi ll his boundless joy for histask . A t tract ing remarkable s tudentst o Brandeis gaveMi ke such cont inualp leasure tha t he o f ten prema turely


Academy Awards

Americ anAc ademy of

Art s and S c ienc es e lec t stwo B rande is Universit yscho la rs

Ja cquel ine Jones, theTruman Professor ofAmeri can C ivil iza t iona t Brandeis , andGregoryA . Fetsko

,the Gyula and

Ka t ica Tauber Pro fessor ofBio chemis try andMo lecularPharmacodynamics, anddirector of the RosenstielBas ic Medi ca l SciencesResearch C enter a t Brandei s,have been named to theAmericanAcademy ofArtsand Sciences . A ful l l i s t ofnewmembers is ava i lableon the AcademyWebsi te a twww.amacad.org.

Wi th the select ion of thesenewes t members

,Brandei s

has 23 fel lows in thea cademy.

This year’s class a l soincludes novel i s t M i lanKundera ; N obel Prizewinning author KenzaburoOe; LordAnthony P .

Lester, president of the

In terna t iona l C entre for theLega l Pro tect ion of HumanR ights ; andFri tz W . Scharpf,

2 Brandei s Review

director of theMax PlanckIns ti tute for the S tudy ofSociet ies .

The academy is plea sed t owel come these ou ts tandingand influent ia l individua lsto the na t ion’s mos ti l lustrious learned society .

Elect ion to the AmericanAcademy i s the resul tof a highly compet i t iveprocess tha t recognizesthose who havemadepreeminent contribu t ionsto a ll scholarly fields andprofessions, sa idAcademyPres ident Pa tri cia Meyer

Spacks. Lesl ie C . Berlowi tz,

the Academy’s executiveofficer, added, “

The

Ameri can Academy i sunique amongAmeri ca ’sa cademies for i ts breadthand s cope . Throughou ti ts hi s tory, the Academyhas ga thered individua l swi th diverse perspect ivesto part i cipa te in studiesandpro jects focus ing onadvancing intel lectua lthought and cons truct iveaction in Ameri can society.

N ew fel lows and foreignhonorarymembers arenomina ted and electedbycurrent members of theacademy. Members aredivided into five di s tinctclasses : ma thema t ics andphys ics, b io logi ca l s ciences ;socia l s ciences ; humani t iesand arts ; and publ i c affa irsandbus iness .

Jac q ueline Jones

The unique structure ofthe American Academya l lows Members t o conductinterdi scip linary studi estha t draw on the range of

academi c and intel lectua ldis cip lines .

The Academy was foundedin 1 780 by JohnAdams ,James Bowdo in

,John

Hancock and other scho larpa triots to cul t iva te everyart and science whi chmay tend t o advance theinteres t

,honor, digni ty,

andhappiness of a free,independent, and virtuouspeople.

"The current

membership includes morethan 1 50 N obel laurea tesand 50 Pul i tzer Prize

Board Feat

Boa rd of

Trust ees ApprovesFYO3 Budget

The FY03 budget approvedby the BoardofTrus tees a ti ts March meeting includes apercent increase in bi l led

charges, which includes a4 percent tui t ion increase.

Gregory Pet sko

winners . Drawing on thewide~ranging expertise of i tsmembersh ip

,the Ameri can

Academy conductsthought fu l, innova tive,nonpartisan s tudies oninterna tiona l securi ty, socia lpol icy, educa tion,

and the

humani t ies .

Thi s year’s new Fel lowsand Foreign HonoraryMembers wi l l be inducteda t the annua l ceremony inOctober.

This is genera l ly at or belowthe range of publ i shedtui tion increases at peerinst i tut ions

,according to

Peter French, executive vicepresident and chief opera tingo fficer.

The budget al so includes a3 percent meri t -basedfacul ty and sta ff sa lary poo l

F l ight Attendance

Ph .D. c andida t e‘ma jors'

in t he Unit ed

S t a t es Air Fo rc e

C a l l her S tudent Ma jor . LoriDavis Perry i s an oddi tya t Brandei s . A U S . Air

Force ma jor, she bel ievesshe i s the firs t act ive-dutymi l i tary officer to study a tthe Universi ty. Andwhi lei t wouldbe difficul t t o sayuneq uivoca l ly tha t she i sthe first

,she certa inly is

no t the average Brandeiss tudent .

Davis Perry’s academi cfocus is unusua l aswel l .She

’s researching the l i fe’swork of the Engl i sh poetE l izabeth S inger Rowe ( 1 6 74

who wro te poetry andepis to lary fiction in a widerange of styles, but who waspart i cularly famous for herrel igious verse, according toDavis Perry .

Davis Perry’s long- termgoa l is to publ i sh an

authori ta t ive edi tion of

Rowe’s poetry . But firs t the

Ph .D. candida temus t fulfi l lher part of a dea l wi th theUSAF . The Ai r Force pa idforDavis Perry’s degree a tBrandei s so tha t she couldreturn t o teach l i tera turea t the Air Force Academyin C o lorado Springs . Herprevious educa tion includesanM .A . in l i tera ture fromIowa S ta te Universi ty and aB A. from Pacific LutheranUnivers i ty in Ta coma,Washington. She has a lreadyspent four years teaching a tthe Ai r Force Academy as anass istant professor.

Davis Perry chose Brandei sbecause of the qua l i ty of i tsprogram and the chance t owork wi th her di sserta t ionadvisor

,Susan S taves, the

Paul Prosswimmer ProfessorofHumani t ies .

The budget al so providesaddi t iona l funds for deferredma intenance spendi ng.

Thi s was a challengingbudget year, French sa id.

”We developed the FYO3

The Ai r Force tra inedDavisPerry as an intel l igenceofficer. And judging byher impressive rank

,she

hasdone wel l thus fa r .

Her firs t a ssignment wasin search and rescue andspecia l opera t ions, whereshe flew as an intel l igencecrewmember, and a t tendedthe specia l Opera t ionsC omba t AircrewTra iningS choo l in LasVegas . Shethen spent two years inthe Republ ic of Koreaconducting thea ter- levelana lysi s of N orth Koreanmi l i tary capabi l i ties andworking as the command

briefer for the a ircomponent commander (athree-s tar genera l ) andhissta ff . Her las t intel l igenceass ignment was a t HanscomAir Force Ba se, where shewas the Opera tions officerand a divis ion chief fora cqu i si tion intel l igence.

budget mindful of ri sksrela ted t o the economy andconsidered cho i ces invo lvingfa cu l ty s ize and costs ,number of s tudents andbi l led cha rges, endowmentdraw, anddeferredma intenance spendi ng, ” hesa id.

”Opera ting expense

Davis Perry describes hersel fas someone who prefers thecha l lenges and surpri seso fferedby the ”

road lesstraveled

,such as joining

the Air Force . Her fami lyhasno hi s tory ofmi l i tarycareers . The Ai r Forcea t tractedher because i twouldgive her educa t iona lopportuni t ies and a l low herto travel . Today she saysshe wouldn’ t change a thingabout her career.

— Dennis N ea lon

reduct ions ini t ia ted in FY02in response t o the changesin the economy havereduced the Univers i ty’sbase budget helping t o keepthe FYO3 bi l led chargesincrease as low as poss ib leand provide funding tocont inue to improve fa cul tysa laries , ” French sa id.

3 Brandeis Review

A Wea lth of Scholars

Jona t han S c la rsic

4 Brandei s Review

S c la rsic'

0 3 awa rded

Truman S cho la rship ;

Fourt h c onsecut ive yea r

t ha t a Brandeis st udent is

hono red

Before he was evenel igible t o vo te, Jona thanSc larsic

’03 beganworki ng

on a number of po li t i ca lcampa igns in the Bos tonarea . In fact

,he was only

1 5 years oldwhen he beganworking in C ongressman IoeMoakley

’

s (D-Mass . ) officeas a summer intern . Sc larsic

,

a po l i ti ca l science ma jor,

just received ano ther careerboost as the recipient Of thi syear

’s prest igious TrumanScho larship .

Thi s is the fourthconsecu t ive year tha ta Brandeis s tudent haswon the di s tingui shedaward. The scho larship,a meri t -basedgrant for gradua te study,is awarded to co l legejuniors wi th exceptiona lleadership po tent ia l whoare commi t ted to careers ingovernment

, the nonprofi tsector

,or el sewhere in

publ i c service. As a Truman

Scho lar, Sc larsic wi l lpart ic ipa te in leadershipdevelopment programs andreceive specia l internshipOpportuni t ies wi th thefedera l government .

Sc larsi c has interneda t Sena tor john Kerry’s(D-Mass . ) Bos ton and

WashingtonD.C . Officesandmanaged a successfulcampa ign for S ta teRepresenta tive FrankI . Smizik (D He

founded the Linco lnSudbury YoungDemocra tsC lub

,a grass roo ts

organiza t ion tha t encouragesdemocra t i c invo lvementand organizes s ta te and

Sc larsic plans t o pursue amas ter’s degree in publ i cpo l i cy andwould l ike torun for elected Of fi ce. He

recent lywas elected inSudbury, Massachuset ts

,as

a delega te for the democra t icconvent ion.

My educa t ion a t Brandei shashad a s trong empha s ison socia l justi ce and po l icy,s ta ted Sc larsic . I have abet ter unders tanding abou thow

help people and i t hasinspiredme to becomemore invo lved in pub l icpol icy and encourage morepeople t o become a ct ive ingovernment ."

Brande is'

s second

C hurch ill S c ho la rma kes a

memorab le connec t ion

Wi thin less than a mi l l ionthof a second, a compu ter cansearch throughmi l l ions ofbytes Of da ta and accura telyrespond to a query. I t c ana l so be used to simu la tethe elabora te pa t terns ofbiochemi ca l and electri ca lact ivi ty in the bra in.

junior year, Abadi becamefascina tedby themo lecul arbasis ofmemory, duringthe cour se In troduction toN euroscience

,taught by

Professor of Biology JohnLisman. After Lismandescribed evidence for theinvolvement Of the pro teinC aMKII in memory, Abadihad the insight to makea computer program tha thelps people visualize thebiochemica l react ionsinvo lved in the forma tion of

a memory swi tch.

Abadi’

swork in crea ting acomputermodel formemoryhas contributed to hissuccess using a di fferent kindof network of reca ll in thefield Of computer science.

Working wi thMi tchC hemiack

,assi stant

pro fessor of computerscience

,his research has

helped crea te a new too l toass is t wi th the developmentof da taba se software . The

too l was constructedwi thin

loca l party act ivism. At

Brandei s, Sc larsic hasbeen especia lly act ive. He

was vi ce pres ident Of theBrandeis Univers i ty s tudentbody, served as a sena torfor the class of 2003 for twoyears, andwas a res identadvisor . He ba lanced thesedut ies whi le serving as aBoard ofDirectors member

for the YoungDemocra ts ofMa ssa chuset ts, the Offi cia lumbrel la organiza t ionfor young democra ts inMa ssachuset ts .

jus t ask Daniel Abadi ’02,who has been awarded

the pres t igious C hurchil lScho larship . W i th a doub lema jor in compu ter scienceandneuroscience

,he i s

conduct ing groundbreak ingresearch tha t has led t o acompu ter simu la t ion of

bio logi ca l memory s torageand a new debugger for a

programming languageused in da ta retrieva l inda taba ses . I t a l so led tothe scho larship

,whi ch

wi l l enab le him to pursuea M .Phil . in engineeringa t C hurch i l l C o l lege,C ambridge Univers i ty,England. He i s only thesecond student to receivethe award a t Brandei s .


B ird b ra ins may no t bec omp let e fea t herheads

aft er a ll Brande isresea rcher revea lsrema rka b le int e llec t ua lc apab ilit ies of Greypa rro t s

Being a birdbra in isn’ tso bad a fter a ll-especia l lyi f you’

re a birdbra in inBrandei s researcher IrenePepperberg

’

s lab . Pepperberg,research a ssocia te professorof psycho logy andavian expert a t Brandei sUniversi ty, has proventha t birds have remarkablecogni tive abi l i ties tha tsurpass mimicry .

Her work provides evidencetha t Grey parro t s have theab i l i ty t o combine Ob jectsand sounds in specificorders . The phenomenonindica tes tha t the avianbra in

,a l though cons iderably

Ach ievement andPromise

Two rece ive

Guggenhe imsMary C ampbel l , professorof Engl i sh, and jenni ferN uss , art is t - in-res idencein fine arts

,have been

awardedGuggenheimFel lowship Awards for2002 . C ampbel l and N usswere selected from over

appli cants— artis ts,

scho lars,and scientis ts .

Guggenheim Fel lows areappo inted on the basi s ofdi s tingu i shed achievement

6 Brandei s Review

di fferent from tha t ofmamma ls, c an processinforma tion in simi lar ways .

We have shown tha t despi tehaving a wa lnut -s izedbra in,

and one tha t is organizedvery different ly from tha t ofa human, parro ts are capab leof learning very simplesyntact i c pa t terns , ” sa idPepperberg.

”Our research

,

furthermore,shows that

learning such elementsproceeds inways simi lar t othose of humans . ”

Interna t iona l ly recognizedfor groundbreaking researchon communica tive andcogni t ive funct ions inparro ts

,Pepperberg released

hermost recent findings a tThe Ameri can Associa t ionfor the Advancement ofScience’s annua l meet ing.

At the conference sheintroduced the extraordi narybehavior of Gri ffin

,a

7-

year-o ldGrey parro t who

in the pa s t and exceptiona lpromise for futureaccomplishment . C ampbel lwashonoredfor her work indream andmetaphor in earlymodern l i tera ture, science,and persona l l i fe. Her

la tes t book, Wonder andScience: Imagining Worlds

in Early Modern Europe,received two awards : thejames Russel l Lowel lPrize from the Modern

Languages Associa tion and

the SuzanneM . Gla sscockHumani ties Book Prizefor Interdi sciplinaryScholarship from the

C enter forHumani t iesResearch a t Texas A&M .

recent ly began l inkingwords in a specific ordert o express a part i cularthought, combina toria l actspara l leledby young chi ldrenfirs t learning language.

Griffin is combininglabel s in very simple ways,something tha t chi ldren doa t an early s tage of languageacqu i s i t ion,

usua l ly a t abou t22months of age, sa idPepperberg.

”At thi s stage a

chi ldno t only says 'mommy’

or’cookie’

but a l so beginsexpress ing tha t they ’wantmore

Her forthcoming worksinclude essays in theC ambridge C ompanionto Tra vel Wri ting and inthe C ambridge History ofScience, vol . 3 , and a newbook of poems , Trouble .

jenni fer N uss, who hasbeen teaching printmakinganddrawing a t Brandei ssince 1 994 , hashad severa lexhibi tions of herworka t ga l leries in the Uni ted

specifywha t he would l iket o eat . O ther examplesofGri ffin’s cogni tive andcommunica tive abilit iesinclude his abi l i ty to ident ifyOb jects andma teria ls . Heis a lso learning to ident ifyshapes and colors .

Griffin has a clearunders tanding ofwha this labels represent

,sa id

Pepperberg . I t ’s not as t imulus response .

”

Griffin has a l so begunt o manipu la te and s tackdi fferent -sizedbot t le capsin the correct sequence,placing the sma l ler bot t lecap ins ide the larger bo t t lec ap .

Thi s pa t tern of developmentor s tacking usua l ly occursin chi ldren around the

same t ime tha t they begint o comb ine label s, sa idPepperberg .

S ta tes,Aus tria

, and japan.

A pas t recipient of the joanM i tchel l Memoria l Awa rdand of the Mazer ResearchAward

,N uss says her work

“dea ls wi thmythica l fema lefigures . They are characterswho o ften fa l l betweenhuman and anima l . Theyare wi tches, a croba t s, circusfreaks . They enterta inthe poss ibi l i ty of ri tua land rebirth.

”

(N ew York

Founda t ion for the Arts)N uss is currently on leavefrom teaching a t Brandei sand i s l iving andworking inN ew York C i ty.

According t o Pepperberg,thi s type of behavior i s aprecursor t o seria l iza t ionknowledge, a tra i t tha twas once bel ieved to beexclus ive t o prima tes and aprecursor of syntax .

The fact tha t we have shownthe simul taneous emergenceof vocal and phys icalcombina toria l behavior inanima ls so far removed fromprima tes is extraordinary,sa id Pepperberg.

Professo r o f Music J imOlesen, direct o r of t heUniversit y C horus andC hamb er C ho ir sinc e 1 9 72 ,

has been named a rt ist icdirect o r of t he Ba ck BayC ho ra le

An act ive figure in theBoston-area mus iccommuni ty, O lesenhas gues t conducted forEmmanuel Mus ic

,Bos ton,

in i t s ongo ing series of Ba chcanta tas . He has a l so servedas guest conductor for theGri ffin Ensemble, Bos ton, inmus ic ofMa rio Davidovsky

research ra i ses someinterest ing ques t ions . Giventhe s tructure Of the avianbra in

,does combina toria l

behavior evolve separa telyin birds andprima tes orwas i t inheri ted from a

di s tant common ances tor?Al though thi s ques tionrema ins a mys tery, herresearch wi th the C ongoAfri can parro t has providedimportant insights t o howsuch behavior has evolved.

In 1 977,she began her

research wi th Alex,3 25

year-old parro t who shares

Pepperberg’

s lab wi th Griffinand a younger clanmember

,

Ar thur Wart ), 3years Old. Alex

,the

oldes t,has a more advanced

unders tanding of ob jectlabels and can ident i fyconcepts about 50 di fferent

andAl len Anderson,andfor

the C ambridge SymphonyOrchestra . He has a l soprepared choruses for thePi t tsburgh SymphonyOrches tra, the PraguePhi lharmonic

, and the

Bo s ton Phi lharmoni c .

The 10 0 -member BackBay C hora le gives fourpro fess iona l concerts a yearin Bos ton ofma jor chora lrepertory, which O lesensays wi l l a l low him t o

work on the large worksfor chorus and orchestra

ob jec t labels -ma t ter,co lor

,

s ize,and shape . He a lso

has concepts of b igger andsma l ler

,same anddi fferent

,

ca tegory, absence, andconcepts of numbers .

Wart,whose name was

ca reful ly chosen t o ma t chMerl in’s ni ckname foryoung Arthur in TheSword and the S tone

,

i s jus t beginning hisapprent iceship and i s jus tbeginning to grasp theconcept of label s .

The tra iningmethods sheuses faci l i ta te the Greyparro ts ’ abi l i ty to learnfrom each o ther and fromhumans in the labora tory,

aswel l as give himmore

Opportuni ty t o conduct 20 thcentury repertory. I t wi l la l so give him an associa t ionwi th one of Bos ton’simportant communi tychora l ensembles .

At Brandei s,O lesenwi l l

continue to lead s tudents ingers in a va s t repertory ofmus ic

,ranging from Bach,

Mozart,andBeethoven,

to

fo lksongs, art songs , andsongs of the Grea t Ameri canMus ica l .

Irene Pepperb erg w it h Alex,

Wa rt , and Griffin

Pepperberg coauthoredthe s tudy on Gri ffinwi th Hea ther R . Shive

,

Univers i ty Of Arizonaand N orth C aro l inaS ta te Univers i ty C ol legeof VeterinaryMedi cine

,

”S imu l taneous Developmentof Voca l and Physica lOb jec t C ombina t ions by aGrey Parrot, whi ch waspub l ished in December of200 1 . Twenty years ofworkwi th Alex is a l so chroni c ledin the cri t i ca l ly a cc la imedbook, The Alex Studies.

C ristin C arr

J im Olesen

7 Brande i s Review

Four B randeis senio rsacc ept ed t o Mount S ina iS choo l of Medic ineFour Brandeis students havebypassed the decisionmaking process tha t usuallydefines senior year . Long

before gradua tion,theywere

selectedbyMount Sina i ’sMedi ca l Schoo l aspart of anearly a cceptance program.

The highly selective programallows undergrads to pursuea diverse study in humani tiesand social sciences andassures ma tricula tion intoMount S ina i ’s medica lschool upon gradua tion.

J ona than Dwo rkin '

02 , S t ephen

Berns'

0 2 , Ka rina Grit senko '

0 3 ,

and Ra che l Go ldst ein ’

0 2

8 Brandei s Review

including BrandeisUniversi ty, Amhers t C o l lege,Princeton Univers i ty, andWi l l iams C ol lege, expandedi ts appli ca tion pool inN ovember 200 1 to includea ll universi t ies na t ionwide.

During sophomore year,S tephen Berns ’

02, bio logi ca lanthropo logyma jor,jona thanDworkin ’

02,

a European cul tura l s tudiesma jor

,andRachel

Golds tein ’02, a sociology

ma jor, received admiss ioninto the program. KarinaGri tsenko

’

03,a European

cul tura l s tudies ma jor,ga ined acceptance duringher junior year.

S tudents accepted into theprogram are not requiredt o take phys ics and organi cchemi s try aspart ofundergradua te curri culum.

Instead, as juniors, they arerequ ired t o parti cipa te in an

on-campus summer programa t Mount S ina i cons ist ing ofcla ssroom s tudy in phys ics

Thi s program has a l lowedme t o look a t medi cineho l i s t i ca l ly, ” sa id Berns .

“My educa t ion a t Brandei shas paved the way t oa career as a doctor— a

career tha t wi l l uniquelycombine the science Ofmedi cine wi th the scienceof people .

”Berns crea ted an

independent concentra t ionwhi le a t Brandei s

,devising

thema jor of bio logica lanthropology . Duringfreshman and sophomoreyear Berns was a memberof the crew team unt il hesusta ined a knee injury .

He a lso was a member of

the core commi t tee forfreshman orienta t ion

,a

s tudent representa tive t othe Universi ty curri culumcommi t tee

,and cha ir of the

senior class gi f t commi t tee.

A lot ofwha t you learnou tside of the classroom i sjus t as important aswha tyou learn in the classroom,

s ta tedDworkin .

”Myexperiences a t Brandei s havemo ldedme as an individua landhave providedmewi th qua l i t ies tha t havebet ter preparedme to be

a wel l -rounded individua landdoc tor. Dworkin wascofounder of S tudents for ajus t Society, an organiza t ioncrea ted t o ra ise awarenessabout the extent andimpact of socia l injust i ceworldwide.

’M t . S ina i ’s program a l lowedme to take a di fferent routet o medi ca l schoo l , sa idGolds tein.

“ It enabledmet o look a t medic ine as asocia l s cience— to look a ta pa t ient as a who le, no t

jus t as a set of symptoms .Goldstein’s ab i l i ty toba lance schoo l work wi th arigorous tra ining schedu leas capta in of Brandei s ’sswim team andwork as awri ter for the justi ce havepreparedher wel l for thedemands ofmedi ca l s choo l .As a volunteer for Brandei s ’sfreshman Orienta t ionprogram,

Go lds tein has a l sohelped introduce incomings tudents t o co l lege l ife,making the trans i tion eas ierfor newcomers .

Often doctors live in a

technocra ti c bubble wheresocio logi ca l aspec ts don’ texi s t , ” sa idGri t senko .

” Iwant my career as a doctort o be more than just thescience Of medi cine

,1 want

t o includemore humani s t i ca spects aswel l . ” Whi lea t Brandei s Gri tsenkowasmanager of S tarvingArt is ts

,a Brandei s a cappel la

performance group , andfounded ”

Swingers , ” thefirst swing dance groupa t Brandei s . She a l sohelped to organize Scienceon Sa turdays, a mentorprogramwi th Brandei ss tudents and the BoysGirls C lub ofWa l tham

,and

was president of the KaBH,

a club a t Brandei s tha tbrings students together inan interna t iona l thea trica lcompet i t ion deeply roo tedin Russ ian cul ture.

—C ristin C arr


Mot ionDetectors

Brande i s s cient ist sp inpo int how a ce ll

'

s t inymot o r runsThree Brandei s scient is tshave pinpo inted the crucia lmechanism of kines in, a

mo tor pro tein tha t powersthe world’s t inies t enginesof l i fe—cel l s .


The controvers ia l finding,reported in the Feb . 1 issueof Science by Brandei sresearchers

,Wei Hua

,

johnson C hung, and jeffGel les

,provides a new

model ofmot ion for kinesin,

as i t propels enzymes ando ther chemi ca ls a longpa thways known as

microtubu les .

The three scientis tsdi scovered a new inchwormmechanism usedbykinesin

’s two leg

- l ike”heads

,

” which crawl a longthe micro tubule pa thwaypul l ing the precious cargoneeded t o keep the cel l ’smetabol i sm running.

’

Our finding upsets thewidely accepted ’

hand

over hand theory, ’ whi chproposed tha t kinesin’

s

two heads movedsymmetri ca l ly, sa idGel les,

professor of biochemi s tryandVo len N a t iona l C enterfor C omplex Systemsa t Brandeis Univers i ty .

“Previous ly, i t was bel ievedtha t kinesin’

s two headsor two ident ica l pro teinsubuni ts functionedident i ca l ly, a l terna telymoving past each o therl ike the feet of a personwa lking .

”

By using singlemolecu lel ight mi croscopy, a uniquetechnique tha t a l lowed themto look a t s ingle enzyme

mo lecules individua l ly, thescient is ts were able to trackthe mot ion of each kinesinmo leculemeasuring 70nanometers in length.

NewPrez inParad ise

friend C aro le El ia s ’

64

were looking for theintel lectua l s t imula t ion forwhich NW C was renowned,so they hiredbabysi t tersand joined a study group .The N a t iona l Women

’sC ommi t tee o ffers i tsmembers 80 study groupsba sed on syl labi wri t ten byBrandeis facul ty. A partnerwi th Brandeis Universi tys ince i ts founding in 194 8 ,the N a tiona l Women’sC ommi t tee has ra i sedmorethan $77mi l l ion for theUniversi ty and i ts Libraries .

Unders tanding how the

mo tor pro tein kinesinfunct ions is essent ia l toga ining a ful l unders tandingof how nerve cel l s keeptheir dis tant parts a l iveand func tioning. Thi sknowledgemay ul t ima telybe helpful for trea tinga large cla ss ofmo torneuron diseases includingAmyotrophi c La tera lS cleros is (ALS ) .

— C ristin C arr

Kern andher fami ly movedto Arizona in 1 983 whereshe became a leading forcein the Phoenix C hapter, oneof the founding chaptersof the N a tiona l Women’sC ommi t tee.

ALS and othermo torneuron di seases seem to be

a ssocia tedwi th defec ts intransport -down neurons ”sai dGel les . ”

By studyingkines in

,a key component of

transport,we hope to learn

more abou t wha t causesthese di seases andhow they

We conclude tha t these two might be prevented.

”

ident i ca l subuni ts actua l lyperform di fferent tasks

,

”

sa idGel les . ”Whi le one ofthe two heads funct ions asan act ivemotor

,the other

serves as a crutch for theact ive head to push aga ins tas i t is moving forward.

”

Do ro t hee Kern

Track Stars

Our research characterizesthe mo t ions of cyclophi l in Al i during ca ta lysi s and

We have tracked theforce dimens ion of C ypA,

which enables us t o bet terC rist in C arr

andWoodnick’

s s is ter ra i sedover a nine-

year

period.

Kern studied a t BrooklynC o l lege, C i ty C o l lege, theN ew Schoo l of Socia l


Lea ving a lifet ime ofsubsist enc e lab or inUganda , freshman st udiesa t B randeis and lobb iesha rd for poor b a c k home

By hisown es t ima tion,

jeremiah K. Kasigwa’

05

couldbe ” fishing his l i feaway

” back home wi ththousands i f not mi ll ions ofothers in hisna t ive Uganda .

He wouldbe leading ana cceptab le

,norma l l ife tha t

way.

Joshua Go rdon


But ins tead, the 1 9 -

year-Old

freshman i s being cla ss ica l lyeduca ted at Brandeis

,whi ch

doubles for him as a baseto help promote learningfor the chi ldren andyoungadul ts in vi llages of hishome .

Po ised and art icula te,

Kasigwa recent ly go tBrandei s t o give him eightused computers

,whi ch he

shipped t o Uganda for use invil lage school s . He ini t ia tedthe pro ject by himsel fand took threemonthsshepherding i t throughstages ranging from workingwi th support ive Univers i tyadmini s tra tors t o get t ing the

A gradua te of The jui l l iardSchoo l , Gordon hasperformed around the

S tudent Sena te t o a l loca teto transport the

equipment to Uganda .

Kasigwa , who i s ma joringin economics, sa id hehad three goa l s : t o showvil lagers wha t a computerrea l ly looks l ike, wha t i t i sl i ke t o use one

,andby do ing

so, t o inspire them t o pursuelearning as an a l terna tive toa l ife of farming and fishing,devoid of forma l educa t ion.

Gordon officia l ly joins Mary

Ruth Ray (vio la ) , DanielS tepner (vio l in), and judi th



Senior C lass

Phyllisw it h Aa rt i Daswani



And theW inner

Re ic h host s First Annua lTea ching Awa rd Tea ch-In

Robert Rei ch,renowned

na t ionwide for his pol i ti ca linsight and chari sma t icpersona l i ty, recent lyreceivedproof of jus t howhighly Brandei s studentsva lue him as a professor.

Reich,Univers i ty Professor

and theMauri ce B . HextetProfessor of Socia l andEconomi c Pol i cy, i s therecip ient of the Teacher ofthe YearAward

,presented

by the S tudent Union t o theteacherwhom s tudents have

A ProgramReborn

Bra ndeis p la nning t ooffermast er’s degree inc oexist enceWi th a gi ft of $5 mi l l ion,

Brandei s Univers i ty wi l lestabl ish The Alan B . S l i fkaProgram in Intercommuna lC oexis tence. When fu l lyimplemented, the programwi l l offer the ma s ter’sdegree in coexi s tence,a ccording t oDaniel Terri s ,director Of Brandei s ’sInterna t iona l C enter forE thi cs

, just i ce and Publ i cL ife lEjPL ), underwhoseauspices the new programwi l l be run.

N amed for the founda t iontha t provided the funding,the program i s the successorto the three-

year Brandeis

Ro b ert Re ic h andJ oshua Pec k '

0 2

vo ted themos t dedica tedand enthusias t ica l lyinvo lved in the profess ion.

On March 5,a long wi th

a plaque and a check for$50 0 , he was given theopportuni ty to hos t the FirstAnnua l Teaching AwardTeach-In.

Yoselin Buga llo’

03 , s tudentunion coordina tor ofcommuni ty resourcesand planner of the event,introducedReich t o a crowdof s tudents

,facul ty, and

members of the Brandeiscommuni ty who hadga thered in the Interna t iona lLounge t o hear him speakon a sub ject of his cho i ce .

I love t o tea ch, Reichbegan,

leaving the podiumempty in favor of s tro l l ing

Ini t ia t ive in Intercommuna lC oexis tence. I ts goa l ist o crea te unders tanding,acceptance

,and coopera tion

among individua ls andgroups who h is tori ca l lyhave opposedeach other inconfl i ct regions around theworld.

The Universi ty wi l l beginan interna t iona l searchla ter this year for a seniorscholar-practi t ioner t odes ign,

win facul ty approva lfor

,and lead the new

program. The programwi l lbe targeted t o experiencedcoexi s tence pract i tionerswho, perhaps for reasonsof his tori ca l circums tance

,

find themselves engagedin s trengtheningintercommuna l rela t ionsas part of their l ives asprofess iona l s , act ivis ts, andci tizens .

the a i sles next t o the sea tedaudience. He informa l lydis cussed the feel ings of

”powerlessness ” he feels arepreva lent throughout thena t ion regarding ci t izens ’

”a l iena t ion from the

democra t i c process . Usingsevera l anecdo tes from hist ime as secretary of laborunder President C l inton,

Rei ch expla ined the waysin whi ch the governmenttends to be ”

out of touch”

wi th the people . He no tedhow the government ’s

More immedia tely, thefunds wi l l be used t oenhance Brandei s ’sundergradua te offeringsin coexis tence, and forcont inu ing the globa loutreachwork of the EjPL .

Ou treach programs wi l ldevelop the partnershipsthe center has beenes tabl i shing wi th gra ssroo tsorganiza t ions aroundthe world

,part icularly in

Sri Lanka , South Africa ,N orthern Ireland

,the

Middle Ea s t, Gua tema la,

and in the Uni ted S ta tes .Tha t component of theprogram wi l l be directedby C ynthia C ohen,

Ph .D.

,

interpreta t ions of lawssomet imes neglectcommuni ty va lues , therebyinflaming people’s views ofthe government as a dis tant,unfeel ing ent i ty .

At the conclusion of the

teach-in,S tudent Union

President joshua Peck ’

02

expressed the student body’sapprecia tion for Reich’s worka t Brandeis . Reich replied

,

” I have absolutely lovedandwi l l cont inue to lovetea ching here . It is an honorand a privilege forme.

— EmilyDahl ’

04

the E thics C enter s ta ffmember who has di rectedthe Brandei s Ini t ia tive inIntercommuna l C oexis tencefor the las t three years .

All three componentsof the S l i fka Program inIn tercommuna l C oexis tencewi l l emphas ize the ethica ldimens ion of coexis tencework, andwi l l highl ightthe part i cu lar contribut ionsof the arts andhumani t iest o peace-bui lding pra cti ce .

Through co l labora t ionsbetween scho lars andpra ct i t ioners

,in andout

of the classroom,Brandei s

Univers i ty wi l l become afoca l po int for genera tinganddi ssemina t ingknowledge in these twoarea s .


Undercover Student

Pakist an'

smyst eriousre ligious sc hoo ls

To enter themadari s ofPakis tan

,the schoo ls

where the Ta l iban s tudied,MuhammadAn jummus thave a sol id reference fromsomeone connected to therel igious leaders who runthem. Tha t assurance i sthe only thing tha t wi l lget him in t o speak t o thes tudents uponwhom hisresearch for the Susta inableInterna tiona l Developmentprogram (SID) a t The Hel lerSchoo l for Socia l Po l icyandManagement dependscompletely .

C aren Irr (Engl ish) wasrecently promo ted toa ssocia te professorwi th tenure. Irr

’s ample

publ ica tion record andwork -in-progress indi ca te awide range of intel lectua lconcerns . Her firs t book

,

The Suburb ofDi ssent :C ul tura l Pol i ti cs in theUni ted S ta tes and C anadaDuring the 1 93 03 , combinesa broad sense of cul tura lhi s tory wi th deta i led andpersuas ive readings of animpress ive array of l i terarytexts . Her publ ished essayon Les l ie Marmon Si lko ’

s

Almana c of theDead i san example of Irr’swork


The one thing hemus t no tdo i s let the heads of themadari s know tha t he i saf ter informa t ion as part offieldwork for a U .S .

-baseduniversi ty . Tha t wouldmos tcerta inly kil l any chanceof speaking to the s tudents .The privacy and autonomyof the schools are zea louslyshielded from outsideinterference

, government,or

o therwi se.

Such i s the world intowhi ch Anjum, a 3 6

-

year

Old former commercia lbank worker in Pakistanhas immersedhimself .The fa ther of four youngchi ldren in Pakistan

,where

he was born andgrew up, i scompleting his two years ofs tudy in SID and fina l i zinga report based on vis i tshemade t o 4 1 madaris

a t i ts best . Irr’s currentbook pro ject, Women ’

s

Infringements: Gender andAmeri can Property in theGlobal E conomy, cont inuesher tendency t o take ri sksby argu ing tha t there hasbeen a specifica l ly genderedcomponent to intel lectua lproperty law in the Uni tedS ta tes and, consequent ly,around the globe.

Irr has parti cipa tedenerget ica l ly in herdepartment

,serving as

Undergradua te Advis ingHead and taking an a ct ivero le in the res tructuringof the Engl i shma jor. She

hasdes igned and taught anunusua l ly large number Ofcourses since arriving a tBrandei s in fa l l 1 999 .

(plura l formadrasah )and interv iews wi th 24 1s tudents in them. In tha treport Anjum says tha tthe ”madari s of Pakis tanare widely cons idered (bytheWes t ) the ha t cheriesof extremi sts

, especia l lya fter the Ta l iban regime

’scontrovers ia l ro le inAfghani s tan.

Al though one shouldno tconfuse themadaris ofPakistan wi th the mi l i taryl ike al-Q aeda tra ining campsof Afghani s tan, there i s onema in s imi lari ty, accordingt o Anjum . Bo th thrive onant i-Western sent imenti f not outright ha tredforanything resembl ing Engl i shor Bri tish imperia l i s ts .

TimothyHi ckey (computerscience ) hasbeen promotedto ful l pro fessor. Hi ckey’spos t - tenure research focuseson interva l ari thmeti c andi ts applica t ions to constra intlogi c programming. He

has a l so workedon thedevelopment of declara tivelanguages for internetprogramming. Hi ckeyhaspubl i shed two papersin the flagship journa l ofcomputer science, andhasa l so pub l i shed in t op-Ievel

conference proceedings,an esteemed form of

publ ica t ion tha t thosein computer science rely

And tha t mos t certa inlyincludes the Uni ted S ta tes

,

Anjum says . Andfor themadari s and tra iningcamps

,rel igion— tha t is

,

one rel igion, Is lam— i sthe center of the universe.

Further,the Ta l iban tha t

s tood accusedof harboringOsama bin Laden’s legionshashad a ma jor presencein the rel igious schoolsof Pakis tan. Accordingt o Anjum

’

s research,64

percent of themadari sbelong t o Pakis tan’sDeobandi sect , t o whi ch theTa l iban a ll belong .

Unabashedly, Anjum saysthemadari s

,wi th their

”narrow and rigid approach,are

”damaging the fa ce

of Islam”by stress ing

into lerance and teaching

heavily upon t o share newidea s quickly . Addi t iona l ly,he has a pres t igious andhighly compet i t ive ITRaward from the N a tiona lScience Founda t ion.

An effec tive and commi t tedteacher, Hi ckey’s strongma thema t i cs backgroundand interes t in the pract ica laspects of bui lding sys temsmake him an inva luableresource formany s tudents .He interacts wi th a widevariety of students , fromthose he teaches in largeintroduc tory courses t oseniors working on theirtheses, and vo lunteers formany departmenta l dut ies .


InMemor iam

Ernest Grunwa ld

Ernes t Grunwa ld, pro fessoremeri tus of chemi s try, diedonMarch 28 , 2002 . Known

as”Ernie”

by fa cu l ty andfriends

,he was a na t iona l ly

and interna t iona l ly famousscientis t . A member ofthe N a t iona l Academy ofSciences , his pioneeringwork involving N MRtechniques enormouslyinfluenced physica l organi cchemi s try .

According t o C o l in S teel ,pro fessor emeri tus ofchemi s try, Grunwa ldwasone of themos t una ssumingmen . Wha t drove himwasthe fun of do ing researchand finding out somethingnew

,

” sa id S teel .


for hisdoctora l s tudiesin chemi s try, which werecompleted in 1 94 7 . His

doctora l thes is,when

publ i shed, andhis earlyresearch a t F lorida S ta teUniversi ty establ ishedhim as one of the leadersof a new field of chemis try,ca l led phys ica l -organi cchemi s try, which dea l s wi ththe physics and chemi s tryof organi c mo lecules,ma inly in solu t ion . His

peers recognized thi s earlyachievement as beingexemplary, and in 1 959Grunwa ld received thePure C hemi s try Awardofthe Ameri can C hemi ca lSociety, a t the t ime thehighes t honor tha t couldbe presented to a youngchemis t in the Uni tedS ta tes .

In the 1 950 5 , a new

technique, ca l led N uclearMagnet i c Resonance (N MR )became ava i lab le. Grunwa ldrea l ized tha t this techniquecou lddo more than convey as ta t ic pic ture of a mo leculein solut ion,

he rea l ized i tcou ld show scient is ts howtha t picture changed as amo lecule reac ted. In 1 96 1

he resigned from F loridaS ta te Universi ty, wherehe hadbeen di s t inguishedpro fessor of chemi s try andanAl fred P . S loan Fel low,

and jo ined Bel l Labs inMurray Hi l l , N ew jersey,one of the few places wi ththe necessary resourcest o carry out such s tudies .There he helpeddevelop thefundamenta ls of dynami cN MR in co l labora t ion wi thworld-renowned phys icistSaul Meiboom.

In 1 964 Sau l C ohenpersuadedGrunwa ld to jointhe Brandei s Departmentof C hemi s try

,where

he became the Henry F .

Fi schbach Pro fessor of

From 1 977 t o 1 98 1

Grunwa ldwas associa teedi tor of The journal of theAmeri can C hemica l Society .

Retiring from Brandei s in1 989 a l lowedhim to startwork on a new book, whichexamined thermodynami ctechniques of solvents andthe behavior of organicmolecules in solution.

Grunwa ldwro te severa linfluentia l books includingRa tes and Eq uil ibria ofOrganic Rea ctions andThermodynami cs ofMolecular Species.

He was part icularlyfascina tedby tha t mos tanoma lous of solvents,wa ter

,and i ts s tructure in

the l iquid phase," s ta tedS teel . ”

As usua l , he broughthis unique perspect ive t o asub jec t, and i t wi l l doubt lesstake the res t of us someyears t o ca tch up wi th him.

C a rmine J . C a cc ia t o re

C armine j . C accia tore, whoworked a t the Univers i tyfor 3 6 years , died suddenlyonMay 7, a t Beth IsraelHospi ta l in Bos ton. He was

66 .

C accia tore had thedis t inct ion of servingeach of the Brandei spresidents . From 1 964 t o

20 00,he held a variety of

posi t ions a t the Universi tyincludingManager of

Audio-Visua l Services,

C ourtesy Transporta t ionSupervisor

,C oordina tor of

Transporta tion Services,and

Assis tant Direc tor of Publ i cSa fety for Transporta tion.

He drove many famouspeople including LeonardBerns tein

,Former Secretary

of S ta te C yrus Vance, johnGlenn

,andAnn Richards .

A l i felongWa l thamres ident

, C accia tore wasa lso wel l known throughou tMassachuse t ts for his loveof sports

, espec ia l ly baseba l l .He served as pres ident oftheMassa chuset ts Baseba l lUmpires Associa t ion, the

C ol lege Baseba l l UmpireAssocia t ion

,and the Eas tern

N ew EnglandBaseba l lUmpires Associa t ion. At the

t ime of his dea th, he was

C hemi s try Already wel lestab l i shed in his currentarea of applying N MRtechniques t o phys ica lorganic chemi s try, mos tpeople wouldhave s implychosen t o coast a longon the strength of sucha repu ta tion, but no t

Ernie,sa id S teel . ”

He had

read Of an experiment inwhich a Russ ian physicisthadbeen able to iso la tean i so topica l ly pureversion of a compoundbyirradia t ing a mixture wi tha powerfu l carbon dioxidelaser. Soon we had such alaser a t Brandei s and Erniebegan to see i f organicchemi s ts could carry outvery select ive synthes isus ing such too ls . This waspioneeringwork a t the t ime,and caused grea t interes t . ”

When Thomas Pochapsky,professor of chemi s tryand cha ir of the chemis trydepartment washired,Grunwa ldhad ret ired.

However, Pochapsky no tes ,”Despi te his retirement, hewas scient ifica l ly invo lvedin the depa rtment and veryinteres ted in the thingsgo ing on in my labora tory .

A lo t of our interes tsoverlapped

,and I spent

many useful and interes tinghours ta lk ing about scienceand l i fe wi th Ernie in myfirs t years here . Al l of us

wi l l mi ss him.

secretary Of the Eas tern N ewEnglandBaseba l l UmpiresAssocia t ion.

C accia tore a lso fought forthe Uni ted S ta tes, servingwi th the U S . Marine C orpsin the VietnamWar. He

was pas t commandant ofthe Lt . Henry I. Kel ly jr .

Detachment .

He had a heart of gold andeveryone who knew himwel l knew tha t hisbark wasworse than hisbi te, ” sa idPresident jehuda Reinharz .

”C armine waswidely knownandwel l - l ikedon campus,andhe wi l l be mi ssedby a llof us.

”

Dona t ions may bemade inhismemory t o theDanaFarber C ancer ResearchC enter

,75 B inney S t .

,

Bos ton,MA 022 1 0 or t o

the Beth Israel Hospita l,

Medi ca l 33 0

Brookline Ave., Bos ton, MA022 1 5 .

Wa lt er A. Rosenb lit h

Brandei s Trus teeWa l ter A.

Rosenbli th died onMay 1

of prosta te cancer a t theMi ami Heart Inst i tu te. He

was 8 8 .

Rosenbli th’

s career includeds ignificant accomplishmentsin the sciences, techno logy,educa t ion

,interna t iona l

coopera tion,and publ ic

pol i cy. Born in Vienna,

Rosenbli th was gradua tedfrom the Univers i ty ofBordeaux in 1 93 6 andthe Ecole Superieured

’

Elec t ric i t e in Pari s in1 93 7, receiving degreesin communi ca t ionsengineering. In 1939

,he

came t o the Uni ted S ta tesas a research ass is tantin phys ics a t N ew York

Univers i ty . When the

outbreak ofWorldWar H

preventedhim fromreturning t o France,Rosenbli th rema ined in theUni ted S ta tes, tea ching a tthe Univers i ty of C a l i forniaa t LosAngeles and theSouthDako ta School ofM ines andTechno logy.

In 194 7, Rosenbli th joinedthe HarvardUnivers i tyPsycho-Acous ti c Labora tory,pursuing a long-s tandinginteres t in how the bodyresponds to noi se . Whi lea research fel low a t

Harvard,he helped found

the Ea ton Peabody Lab forAudi tory Phys io logy a t theMassachuset ts Eye and EarInfirmary .

Rosenbli th began teachingas an associa te professorof communica t ionsb iophysi cs a t theMassachuset ts Ins t i tuteof Techno logy in 1 95 1 .

In 1 957 he was eleva tedt o fu l l professor, andwasnamed Inst i tute Professorin 1 975 . Rosenbli th

was involvedwi th MITfor over three decades

,

during whi ch t ime heestabl i shed the Labora toryof C ommunica t ionsBiophys ics, was electedcha ir of the facul ty,fol lowedby becomingassocia te provos t, andul tima tely served as provos tfrom 1 97 1 t o 1 980 .

N o t one to l imi t himsel ft o a s ingle univers i ty,Rosenbli th becameinvolvedwi th many whi lema inta ining his pos i t ionsa t MIT . He was a researchassocia te in o to logy( 195 7-69 ) then lecturer ino to logy and o to la ryngo logya t the HarvardMedica lSchool . Lecturing widelyin the Uni ted S ta tes andabroad, Rosenbli th served

as the Inaugura l Lecturera t India ’s Ta ta Ins t i tutefor Fundamenta l ResearchandWeizmann Lecturer a ttheWeizmann Ins ti tute ofScience in Israel

,in 1 962 .

During the summers of1 965 and 1 966 , he was a

visi ting professor a t theTechni ca l Universi ty, Berl in,and la ter a t the Ins ti tu te ofBiophys ics, Univers i ty ofRio de janeiro in 1 97 1 , 1 973 ,and 1 976 .

Rosenbli th wasmade a

knight of the French LegionofHonor by Franco i sM i t terrand in 1982, inrecogni t ion of hisworkin fos tering intel lectua land scientific exchangesbetweenMIT andFrance.

He served from 1 977 t o

1 986 on the Interna tiona lC ommi t tee on ScholarlyC ommuni ca t ion wi th thePeople’s Republ i c of C hina,andwasnamed a consu l t ingpro fessor a t the Univers i tyof E lectroni c Science andTechno logy of C hina in1 988 . Rosenbli th a lso servedon the Board of Governorsof theWeizmann Ins ti tute

,

andwas a member of the

Pres ident ’s Board on ForeignScho larships (Fulbright )from 1 978 t o 1 986 , cha iringthe Board from 1 980 to

1 98 1 . Addi t iona l ly, hewas a member of the

USIA Advisory Panel onInterna t iona l Educa t iona lExchange from 1 982 t o

1986 .

Upon hearing ofRosenbli th

’sdea th, U S .

Sena tor john Kerry (DMass . ) sa id: ”Wa l terRosenbli th was one of the

mos t influent ia l leadersof the interna tiona lscientific communi tyduring the la s t 50 years .

From his servi ce asForeignSecretary Of the N a t iona lAcademy of Sciences andhis part i cipa t ion wi th theWorldBank in s trengtheningC hinese universi ties a fterthe C u l tura l Revo lut ion,

t o his awards li ke theFrench Legion of Honor

,

the German Alexander vonHumbo ldt Meda l

,and the

es teemed japanese Okawaprize

,Wa l ter Rosenbli th

bui l t bridges t o the worldthrough science. I amgra tefu l for his persona lsupport and friendship .

U S . Sena tor EdwardM .

Kennedy (D-Mass . ) sa id,” I am deeply saddenedt o learn of the dea th ofWa l ter Rosenbli th . He

was a bri l l iant scientis twho devotedhis l i fe t odevelop ing groundbreakingscient ific research. He wi l lbemi ssed.

”

Rosenbli th received anhonorary SOD. degree fromBrandei s in 1 988 . He a lsoreceivedhonorary Sc .D.

degrees from the Univers i tyof Pennsylvaniathe Sou thDakota Schoo lofM ines andTechnology

and the Univers i tyofMiami In 1 976 ,

he was des igna ted anhonorary a lumnus by theMIT Associa t ion ofAlumniandAlumnae

,andwas a l so

awarded theDoctorHonori sC ausa from the Federa lUniversi ty of Rio de janeiro .

Rosenbli th leaves behindhiswife of 60 years, judyFrancis

, professor emeri taof psycho logy a t Whea tonC o l lege, ofMarstons M i l l s

,

MA,andM iami

,FL; a

daughter, Sandy, of C hevyC ha se, MD; a son, Ron, ofMcLean,

VA,a brother, Eri c,

of N ewton,MA

,and three

grandchi ldren.


Three milest onesma rked;Koppel t e lls grads: hono rt hy e lders

Society, sa idKoppel, isti l ted too far in the di rectionof impetuous youth .

—Dennis N ealon



ed Koppe l S t ephen B reyer Lawrence H. Fuc hs

22 Brandeis Review


Get t ing a Posse s cho larsh ip changedevery thing . I can’ t p i c ture where I ’dbe now w i thou t i t . The though t o fmy dropp ing ou t a f ter ge t t ing a Po s sescho larsh ip was ju s t ludi crou s . Whengi ven an oppor tun i ty, you ha ve t o ta keadvantage o f i t , ” he says in a relaxed

,

confiden t,so f t - spo ken compel l ing

manner.

You ’l l a lways find a Po s se s tudent infront of the c la s s a s k ing ques t ionstha t ’s a gi ven—

you don’t di sappearin to the c la s s . M a k ing a di f ferenceon campu s , as Brandei s ’s firs t Po s se,we fel t enormou s pres sure t o dosome th ing, he adds . ”We organ i zeda Po s se re trea t tha t waswonderful .Every year ea ch Po s se S cho lar inv i teso ther peop le (we had 6 0 or 70 peop le ),t o part i c ipa te in a Po s se work shopweekend . We ta l k abou t wha t ’s go ingon on c ampus, andhow we c an changeth ings . Fa cu l ty come a lso

,andwe

get an unders tanding of wha t c an bea c comp l i shed, andma ke friends . ”

W ired,exuding a high-energy, upbea t

manner,fa s t - ta lk ing, en thu s ia s t i c ,

confiden t,Abba s Q uresh i ’0 2 gi ves

new mean ing t o the word ”ou tgo ing .

Ex tremely wel l known on campus,


Bu sy ? Yes. I had no cho ic e bu t t omanage t ime

,and I rea l i zed tha t is a

key in l i fe . I wa ke up every day, andrun through the day in my head, andsee wha t has t o be done . C la s ses area lways a priori ty— tha t ’s set in s tone .

Then in wha tever open t ime slo ts Iha ve

,I do wha t needs t o be done .

” He

a t tribu tes his success t o his paren t s ."My paren t s are my gu i ding l ight .They a lways pushed my s i s ter andme t o bel ieve tha t we c an a c comp l i shany th ing as long aswe set our minds t oi t . Get t ing an edu ca t ion i s the key t oopen ing any door in the world .

”

he has c la imed the l imel igh t as anemcee on the s tage, runn ing even tsand

,as he des cribes i t

,

”ma k ing a foo lou t of mysel f .” He won an award forcommuni ty serv i ce for a ll four yearsa t Brande i s . A res iden t adv i sor anddi s c jo c key, he a l so has run the es cortsa fe ty serv i ce for the la s t three yearsw i th his roomma te S teven Ph i l l ip s ’

0 2,

a t ime comm i tmen t of two or threehours every day. Q uresh i and a friends tar ted the Mu s l im s tuden t a s so c ia t ionfreshman year, andnow i t i s fu l lyfledged .

Q uresh i grew up spea k ing Engl i sh,Urdu

,and Pun jab i , and a lso spea k s

Span i sh, H indi , and a l i t t le bi to f Arab i c . Ma joring in b io logica lan thropo logy and European cu l tura ls tudies

,he s tayed on a premed tra c k ,

p lann ing t o ta ke more courses nex tyear in N ew York and app ly t o medica lschoo l s w i th the goa l o f becoming apedia tric surgeon,

his dream s ince hewas a sma l l ch i ld .

”W i th k ids,there ’s

never a du l l momen t .”

Soph ia Moon’

0 2 ma kes a dec i s ionw i th u tmo s t confidence and pu t s a llher eggs in one ba s ke t . Indeed

,even

w i th the enormou s compe t i t ion for thefew Pos se s lo t s

,she dec ided tha t i t was

wha t she wan ted and app l ied only t oBrandei s as a Po s se S cho lar. I t worked .

”A t tha t t ime I sa id t o mysel f, ’

I th ink Iha ve wha t i t ta kes t o be a Po s se leader,and I d idn ’ t wan t t o exp end my energy

in many di f feren t ways . I don ’ t want t obe ano ther fa ce or ano ther number Iwan t my experience t o be di s t inc t . I twas a leap o f fa i th .

”

She des cribes the firs t Po s se mee t ing asa group of very independen t s tuden t s .

”Somewhere a long the l ines of tra iningwe rea l i zed we were indi v i dua l s

,

yes, bu t a lso a team . A lo t o f our

tra in ing dea l t w i th team bu i lding andcommun i ca t ion— how t o suppor t ea cho ther . A Posse tha t doesn ’t supportea ch o ther is no t a Po s se

,i t ’s ju s t a

group of 1 0 leaders who don ’ t knowhow t o fo l low. We a ll needed t o learnt o work as a dynami c group , and crea teone en t i ty tha t we ca l l our Posse .

We a ll had t o ad jus t t o no t be ing thesupers tar . They did ju s t tha t , andwhen ea ch i s a s ked abou t the o thers

,

the rep ly i s ident i ca l : ” I lo ve them .

”

A so c io logy ma jor who loves t os ing, Moon i s compe t ing for M i s sMa s sa chu se t t s th i s year. She competedfor M i s s Teen N ew York S ta te in h ighs choo l

,andwon . She wen t on t o the

in terna t iona l pagean t and p la ced fourth .

(” I love be ing in the spo t l igh t , I lovet o She i s now M iss Eas ternM a s sa chu se t t s . Moon wan ts t o earn

a Ph .D. and tea ch eventua l ly. As a

MeN a ir S cho lar junior yea r, Moon didresearch on C ambodian refugees and i snow hop ing t o land a job in communi tyorgani z ing, you th developmen t

, or teenempowermen t .

E s therM . Obuabang ta lk s fa s t , infu sedw i th pass ion . Growing up in Ghana ,Wes t Afri ca

,she s lammed in to a huge

cul ture change when she arri ved inN ew York in 1 995 , a t the age o f 1 5 ,

t o l i ve w i th her mo ther who had beenhere for four years . In Ghana she wasborn and ra i sed on an es ta te

,becau se her

grandfa ther worked w i th Ghana ’s firs tpres i den t , Dr. Kwame N krumah . She

con tra s ted a communa l a tmo sphere fi l ledw i th friend ly, fun - lov ing cou s ins in a

huge house t o her l i t t le apar tmen t in N ew

York C i ty, by hersel f beh ind a lo c ked doorwh i le her mo ther worked long hours .

The sena tor for ra c ia l minor i ty s tuden t son campus, Obuabang i s pass iona te abou ther m iss ion .

”We are here t o increa sedi vers i ty and lea dership among the

s tuden t body and one way O f fu lfi l l ing tha tamong o thers i s my po s i t ion as sena tor

,

she says . ”I’m try ing t o a c comp l ish my

p la t form : t o increase s tuden ts and fa cu l tyof co lor; t o increase the number of c la s sesin the African andAfro -Ameri can s tudiesand La t in Ameri can s tudies depar tment s ;t o es tab l i sh an A s ian-Ameri can s tudiesdepar tmen t ; and t o es tab l i sh a di versecurri cu lum a cro ss t he board . I hopet o inc lude workshop s t o dea l wi ths tereo typ es . I wan t you t o see tha t I’mb la c k

,bu t no t the firs t th ing you see

,or

the la s t th ing you see .

Among t he Posse One gra dua t es a re KenroyGranville, Prisc illa Arraya , Ma rc o Ba rret o , S oph iaMoon, Est her Obua b ang , J ane ll Cla rke , N a t a leeG ra ham, and Ka t e Tramb it skaya

An in tern w i th Brigham and

Women’s Ho sp i ta l and Bo s ton

Medi ca l,a vo lunteer a t Dea cones s

Wa l tham Ho sp i ta l la s t spring,Obuabang wan t s t o be a pedia tri c ian .

She i s spending the summer in a

spec ia l program a t the Un i vers i ty of

A labama a t B irmingham Schoo l o fM edi c ine

,and app ly ing t o medi ca l

s choo l in a year .

”My a im i s t o goba c k t o Ghana and Open a c l in i c . I’mvery mu ch a p lanner. I demand somu ch of mysel f, i t ’s hard a t t imesfor me t o di ver t away from myp lan .

”

Marjorie Lyon is a st aff wri ter.


Th ink abou t i t : nomina t ionsfor 90 s lo t s . Tha t i s 94 percen tre jec ted . A mere s ix percen ta c cep ted— cons idered no t becauseof answers t o tes t q ues t ions , bu tbecause of the way they in tera c tw i th the wo rld around them . Ta lkt o a ll of the Po s se S cho lars

,and the

impres s ion i s indel ib le: they arechari sma t i c young peop le, armedwi th a Brande i s educa t ion,

des t inedfor ex traordina ry a ccomp l i shmen t sandmean ingfu l con tribu t ions . l


paper trac ing some of

the op in ions of Ho lmesas a member O f the U S .

Supreme C ourt from hisearl ier dec i s ions on the

Ma ssa chu se t t s Supreme

C ourt .

As a su c cessfu l lawyerand

,l i ke Gus Ran i s

and Rober t Shap iro ,a

member of t he C la s sof 1 952 who has been

appo in ted t o the Brande i sBoa rd of Tru s tees— Pau lreca l l s his ha v inghelped s tart the s tuden tnewspaper, the Justi ce,and s tudent governmen t .He a l so remembers hisa c cep tance by severa lpres t igiou s law s choo l swhen he

,l i ke many of

the firs t s tuden ts,feared

re jec t ion by gradua teschoo l s because Brande iswas no t ye t a ccredi ted .

The one thing I amrea l ly proud abou t,ob serves Pau l

,

” i s tha tdesp i te i t s su c ces s , theva lues a re s t i l l there . The

one th ing tha t I learnedt o apprec ia te abou tBrande i s i s the fa c t tha ti t ha s a so c ia l cons c ience .

We ha ve s tuc k t oequa l i zed admi s s ions , weha ve s cho larsh ips , we t ryt o ha ve a di verse s tuden tbody, we s tand by so c ia lva lues tha t are a t ta chedt o

need t o remember who

we were when dec i d ingwha t we a re t o become .

Grow ing up a t

B rande is "HeleneDemb i t zerLambert

,fo l lowing her

career as a l ibrarian,has

vi v id reco l lec t ions ofgrowing up a t Brandei s .For one th ing, Therewas no sense ofpermanency. Every th ingwas in flux. N ow tha tgi ves you a mind set

,

wh i ch is very American,

of change. Al l th ings werepo s s ible . .I had grown

up in Broo k lyn,where I

used to long for some sor tof change in the fami ly.

When I go t t o th i s s choo l,we wi shed there hadbeena pa th for us to fo l low.

Bu t there wasn ’t, so we

had t o ma ke some of our

own tradi t ions,and our

own exc i tement,and our

own celebra t ions . ”

M any of the firs tBrande is studen ts

, judi thMark s Kass reca l ls,

” fel t powerless in thepo l i t i ca l rea lm”

Bu t by

the mid-fift ies, judi th

no tes,The s i lence o f

the s i len t genera t ionwas changing . . Po l i t i ca la c t i v i sm and changebecame the norm . She

jo ined the an t i -nuclearmovemen t

,worked t o

s treng then so c ia l jus t ice,and in the s i x t ies fough tfor c i v i l righ ts in theSou th and too k pa rt in an

Arab - jew i sh dia logue .

Max Perli t sh comparesdevelopment o f Brande i sw i th I srael and

,before

he became a den t i s t,his

experience in Anta rc t i caas a member of a

m i l i tary uni t : Duringt he firs t yea rs o f Brande is,

modern i s t au thor M arcelProu s t

,v iews the second

ha l f of the 20 th centuryasmu ch mo re po s i t i vethan the firs t ha l f . Heobserves tha t the c i v i lr igh ts movemen t aga ins tra c ia l inequa l i ty in theUn i ted S ta tes crea ted

”more par t i c ipa torydemo cra cy ”

andw i denedrecogn i t ion of the

coun try ’s di vers i ty. He

says pro tes t s aga ins tthe V ie tnam War forcedthe governmen t t o

”recogn i ze the au thor i ty

Pe ter Kessner, a su c cess ful of pub l ic Op in ion .

bu s ines sman,fel t lu c ky t o

be a member of the firs tc la s s : ”

Brandei s gaveme

a sense of who I am and

who we were .

"

there was ins tab i l i ty anduncerta in ty as t o wha t thefu ture wou ld be . However

,

so many Obs ta cles ha vebeen overcome and todayBrande i s is cons ideredan excel lent uni vers i ty.

Wh i le there has been grea tprogres s in I srael aswel l ,many o f the prob lem s tha tp lagued the coun try a t i t ss tar t were never reso lved

,

and the confl i c t s tha tex i s t today s t i l l threa tenthe ex i s tence o f a s tab lena t ion .

”

The firs t Brande is yearshad severa l impa c ts onM arv in M arch : ” I t wask ind of n i ce ge t t ing in on

the groundo f the peop le werejew i sh and you fe l t verycomfor table . .I was veryproud when Israel wascrea ted : on the Amer i canc a lendar

,I srael ’s tar ted ’

on my b ir thday, May 8 .

When he part ic ipa ted inthe firs t Brandei s C rea t i veArt s Fes t i va l duringgradua t ion week andmet peop le from the Ya leS choo l ofDrama

,M arv

was launched on a careertha t led t o his becominga no ted Ho l lywood setdecora tor.

Herber t B loom,a ret ired

l i tera ry edi tor who sespec ia l ty i s the ea rly


Persona l Meaning sIn a spec ia l way, the firs tBrande i s years produ cedla s t ing persona l mean ingfor many members ofthe C lass of 1 952 . Theyled to the ma rriagesof Sanders and Phyl isLev ins Ac ker

,Larry

N igrosh andAnne Addi sN igrosh,

Eugene and joan

Feldman Saklad,and

C arl and the la te AudreyW ineWerner. Moreover

,

many members ofthe cla s s cho se bri desfrom the C lass of 1 953 :A lexander Banks andRu th Sh i l ler; El i Fa c torand Rhoda Lemelman;

Pau l Go lds tein and

Diane Ra fa e l ; Dona ldGordon and june C ap lan .

Larry Sho t z marriedjudi th Bu tman

,a

member of the C la s s of1 954 . Gus Ran i s ma rriedRay Lee F inke l s te in,

a

member o f t he C la s sof 1 956 . Robert Shap iromarried Va lya Ka zes , amember of t he C la s s of1 9 6 1 . In 1 996 M arv inMa rch married R i ta jean

The Class of 1 952 as student s,t op , and a t t heir 5ot h Reunion,

bo tt om

3 2 Brandeis Review


C ou ld a 1 O-day tr ip

rea lly ha ve a n impa c t

on how theyfelt a bout

beingJewish

The I srael i sunse t over the Ga l i leanhi l l s was the perfec t ba c kdrop for therendez vou s of our research group a t

a res tauran t in Tiberia s,an anc ien t

c i ty on the wes tern shore Of the Seaof Ga l i lee . I t was january 20 0 0 , andthere were s ix O f us from Brande i s

,

ea ch tra vel ing around Israel wi th a

busload of American co l lege s tuden t s .These young adul ts, part of a group o f

a lmo s t were par t ic ipa t ing in a

new ly launched edu ca t iona l programca l led b ir thrigh t i srael (see box nex tpage ) . They had elec ted t o spendthe ir w in ter brea k in I srael

,a c cep t ing

a”

gi f t ” from phi lanthrop i s t s andjew i sh organ i za t ions who ini t ia ted the1 0 -day program ou t of a concern tha tyoung jew s were no t embra c ing the irtradi t ion .

We were there as so c ia l sc ien t i s t s,in

the ro le of part i c ipan t - Ob servers , t os tudy these s tudent s . Four of our groupwere Brande i s gradua te student s- fromThe Hel ler S choo l for So c ia l Po l icy and

M anagemen t,the Horns te in Program ,

and N ear Ea s tern and juda i c S tudiesand two were fa cul ty researchersfrom the Mari lyn andM auri ce C ohenC en ter for Modern jew i sh S tudies .

Over hummus and s chni t zel,as the

sky fi l led w i th s tars,we compared

no tes . We were trying t o unders tandhow pa rt i c ipant s were rea c t ing t o the irexperiences , andwe wan ted t o get abe t ter sense of how immers ion in theprogram was a f fec t ing the ir e thn i c

'O'

S‘

V ng s u .

Rape lling a t Mit zpe Ramon, a boveAt t he t op of Mt . Masa d a , below

i den t i t ies . C ou ld a 1 0 -day trip rea l lyha ve an impa c t on how they fel t abou tbeing jew ish ?

Earl ier in the day, severa l of theresearchers had tra veled throughou tt he Ga l i lee and the Go lan He igh t s .The ir day had been fi l led w i th na tura lbeau ty, sc ien ce, anc ien t andmodernh i s tory, cu l ture, and geopo l i t ic s .F irs t

,the group s V i s i ted Har Bent a l,

an ex t inc t vo l cano and s tra tegi cpromon tory overloo k ing the deser tedc i ty of Kunet ra . Then there was adeba te w i th k ibbu t zni k s abou t whetherres ident s O f the Go lan He igh ts shou ldgi ve up the homes and farms they hadworked so hard t o crea te in ex changefor a pea ce agreemen t w i th Syr ia .

En rou te t o Tiberias, the buses hads k irted the border w i th jordan a longa s teep, peri lous road w i th agon i z ingswi t chba c k s

, pa s s ing bunkers andru s ted art i l lery from the 1 96 7 war.

F ina l ly, there was a s top a t a cemeteryo verloo k ing the Sea of Ga l i lee, where atour gu i de read drama t i ca l ly from the

wri t ings of a Zioni s t p ioneer known as

Ra chel the poe tes s (see a ccompany inge s say on page

Our research team shared q ues t ionsand observa t ions . To wha t ex ten twere part i c ipan t s engaged ? Wh i chexperiences seemed t o be genera t ingthe grea tes t impa c t ? Gradua l ly, i t

3 5 Brandeis Review

is t he Hille l Fo unda t ion, and mo stst udent s , including t ho se fromBrande is , go w it h o t hers from t he ir

c ampus . But t here a re do zens of o t hert rip o rganizers .

Ext ens ive info rma t ion about t he 4 0+different t rip o rganizers , va riety ofempha s is and philo sophy amongava ilab le t rip s, reg ist ra t ion, and a

g rea t dea l mo re c an be found a t

www .b irt hright isra e l.c om.


t o be work ing so wel l tha t we hadbecome par t of the proc ess . L i ke thepa r t i c ipan ts we were s tudy ing, we

saw and tou ched our own hi s tory.

In reflec t ing on t he deba te w i thk ibbu t zn i k s

,we no ted tha t we had a l so

jus t heard o ver the radio tha t Pres iden tC l in ton wasmeet ing w i th Prime

M in i s ter Bara k and represen ta t i ves ofSyria ’s Pres iden t As sad . H i s tory wasbe ing made and i t fel t as i f we werepar t of i t .

Dinner di s cu s s ion sh i f ted toward howt o ga in perspec t i ve . We ta lked abou thow t o

”bo t t le”

wha t we had ju s tseen

,and t o cap ture our Observa t ions

u s ing lap top compu ters and taperecorders . Wha t we were do ing, froma so c ia l s c ience perspec t i ve, wasca l led e thnography. Wh i le i t has adi s t ingu i shed tradi t ion,

i t i s verydi f feren t from research tha t tes t sa priori hypo theses . E thnographyi s induc t i ve

,no t dedu c t i ve, and i t

req u ires the researcher t o ta ke theperspec t i ve of tho se be ing Ob served .

Our job was t o shed our exper t i se asjew i sh gradua te s tuden t s and s cho larsin order t o be t ter unders tand wha t i tfel t l i ke t o be a pa rt i c ipan t . U nl i keus

,mo s t o f the young adu l t s we were

s tudy ing were v i s i t ing I srael for the


The goa l of b irthrigh t

isra el seemed to be

work ingso well tha t

we ha d become pa r t of

the p rocess.

w i thou t our having t o crea te i t . N o t

everyone who app l ied for the launchtr ip a c tua l ly wen t t o Israel, enab l ingus t o emp loy these non-

part ic ipan ts asa con tro l group . Thus

,we were ab le t o

use a qua s i -experimenta l des ign for ourlongi tudina l s tudy.

When the trip s were o ver and s tuden t shad returned t o s choo l

,we began

t o examine the hundreds of pagesof e thnograph i c field no tes we hadgenera ted . Then

,three mon ths a f ter

the trip, we admini s tered a secondsurvey. We cou ld now draw some earlyconc lus ions

,wi th the e thnograph i c

da ta enri ch ing and informing thesurvey da ta .

Wha t we found c an be summari zed bythe mo s t frequen t ly u sed par t i c ipan tad jec t i ve, “

ama zing .

”However

,even

though these prel iminary findings wereex tremely po s i t i ve, we were cau t iou s


wou ld the resu l t s be rep l ica ted a f termore t ime had pa s sed ? Was the

experience ju s t a good t ime tha t wou ldeven tua l ly be forgo t ten,

or did i t ha vean enduring ef fec t on e thni c iden t i ty ?

To answer these q ues t ions we neededt o ga ther da ta yet aga in,

so more thana yea r a f ter the trip , we con ta c tedpar t i c ipan ts and non -

par t ic ipan ts anda s ked ques t ions tha t were s imi lar t othose they had answered earl ier . We

were now ready t o draw some more

defin i t i ve conc lu s ions . The resu l t ingrepor t , A Mega

-Experimen t in [awish

Educ a t i on : The Impa c t of bi r thrigh tisra el , was pub l i shed in January 200 2,appro x ima tely two years a f ter the firs tp laneload of s tuden t s had landed a t BenGurion A irpor t .

The cons i s tency of rea c t ions , andthe ir s tab i l i ty over t ime

,surpri sed us.

Edu ca t iona l interven t ions,even good

ones,o f ten have a rela t i vely shor t

”ha l f - l i fe .

”Yet from the perspec t i ve

of more than 1 5 months a f ter thetrip, par t i c ipant s con t inued t o V iewthe experience asmeaningfu l and i tappeared t o have a f fec ted the ir Jew i shi den t i t ies and the ir a t t i tudes towardIsrael

,Juda i sm

,and the Jew ish peop le .

I t i s rare in soc ia l sc ience research t ofind in tervent ions where a t t i tudina lchange is sus ta ined over t ime .

Our research revea led s tri k ingdi f ferences be tween part i c ipan t sand non-

par t i c ipan t s . Par t i c ipant sdeveloped a s tronger sense of Jew i shi den t i ty than tho se who did no t go on

the trip . They fel t more connec ted t othe Jew i sh peop le and t o I srael, andwere more l i kely t o indica te theyhadbegun t o exp lore Juda i sm upon

re turn ing home . Part i c ipan ts were a l somore l i kely t o feel i t was impor tantt o remember the Ho lo caus t

,t o care

abou t I srael and t o suppor t Jew i shorgan i za t ions .

For some,apparent ly, a s ingle v i s i t was

no t enough . Severa l hundred re turnedt o I srael a f ter their in i t ia l trip . And

nearly 1 0 0 percent of those who wen tencouraged friends and rela t i ves t oapp ly for a subsequen t trip .

Even though our survey da ta ha smea sured the impa c t of the trip,persona l stories and anecdo tes s t i l lpunc tua te and enhance our ins igh t s .

The va s t ma jori ty of par t ic ipantsdes cr ibed the ir experience inex traordinari ly po s i t i ve terms— as

meaningfu l, as educa t iona l, and asfun . Even a f ter a year, the memoriesseemed surpris ingly fresh . They ta lkedabou t the ir t ime a t the Wes ternWa l l(see a c company ing s tory on the nex tpage ) as i f i t had ju s t ta ken p la ce . The

Temp le Moun t,ad jo in ing the Wes tern

Wa l l,i s the tradi t iona l s i te of the

b ib l ica l s tory o f the b inding of I saa cby his fa ther Abraham . Th i s image

was u sed in ten t iona l ly by programedu ca tors as a metaphor for theconnec t ion between t he par t ic ipantsand the genera t ions tha t hadprecededthem

, genera t ions tha t cou ld only,w i th grea t di fficu l ty, ma ke thep i lgr image they were now on .

a ny po int , a t errorist a t t a c k c ouldhappenw it hout wa rning .

We wa lked unt il we rea ched a set

o f st a irs leading int o t he da rkness.

Jerusa lem st one surrounded us, andwe were a ll hesit ant t o move on. Our

t our guides t o ld us t o get int o a sing le

line , p lac e our hands on t he shouldersof t he person in front of us, and c lose

our eyes . Once we had done t his, t he

line slowly began t o t rudge fo rwa rd.

I could fee lmy roomma t e , Bet h,

g ra b my shoulders aswe ma rchedahead . S uddenly, t he t ra in o f st udent sst opped, and everyone bumped int o

one anot her. A nervous but re lievedlaugh swept t hrough t he c rowded

g roup . Then, our guides a rranged usint o a conf igura t ionwe could no t yetsee and inst ruct ed us a ll t o fa ce inone direct ion. We apprec ia t ed wha t it

was like t o be lo st and diso rient ed in a

fo re ign count ry.

We were inst ruct ed t o keep our

eyes c losed and t o be pa t ient . Onc e

everyone was lined up a ppropria t e ly,

we were a llowed t o o pen our eyes and

t urn a round. I saw t he by now familia r

and comfort ing sight o f t he Ko te l. Ihad been t here b efo re , but many of

t he st udent s were seeing it fo r t hef irst t ime . It wa s, fo r t hem, perhap s t hesing le mo st import ant symbo l of t heJew ish peop le and t he Jew ish re lig ion.

I hea rd a slight gasp of awe a s t hose

a round me t ook in t he view. It seemed

a s t hough t heir eyeswere wo rking

tw ic e as ha rd in o rder t o t a ke it a ll in.

We looked a t eac h st one and p lant ,

t ry ing t o absorb every inch .

Minut eswent by, but t ime seemed t o

st and st ill. Fina lly, one by one , st udent s

b egan t o wa lk down t o t he Ka tel and

get t he ir chanc e t o t ouch t housands

of yea rs of hist o ry. Overcome w it h

emot ion, a few st udent s did no t st epforwa rd. They sq uint ed t hrough t he irt ea rs . An inexp lic a b le connec t ion t oIsra e l and Juda ism had just come int o

be ing fo r t hem, and t hey s imply c ouldno t yet underst and it .

— Esz ter Leng yel’

0 4 , p art ic ip ant

observer

La t er, some o f t hem t o ld me t ha t

see ing t he Ka tel and be ing in Isra e lhad t ouched a p la c e w it hin t ha t had


never been t ouched befo re . They c riedbec ause t hey fe lt a new c a lm inside .

They a lso t o ld me t ha t t hey werest a rt ing t o rec ognize t he ir sp irit ua lside and t o get in c lo ser t ouch w it ha fa it h t ha t t hey re luc t ant ly were

lea rning t o t rust . This was espec ia lly

meaningful fo r t hose who had

no t grown up in a Jew ish set t ingand had no t been surrounded by

Jew ish cult ure . Fo r t hem, see ing t he

Ko tel gave t hem t he oppo rt unit y t o

experience Juda ism in it s”

na t ura l

set t ing , in a c it y t ha t is yea rso ld in t he Jew ish home land. Just afew minut es a t t he ho liest s it e o f t heJew ish re lig ion ent ire ly changed t he irperspec t ive on a re lig ion t ha t had

previously no t b een very meaningful

o r impo rt ant t o t hem. I

We ha ve lea rned

tha t bondsforged

through tra dit ion

a re very powerfi d.

For examp le, one Brande i s part ic ipan t ,in a conversa t ion wi th a fa cu l tyresearcher severa l mon ths a f ter histrip, rela ted tha t he was experienc ing

”w i thdrawa l" andwas ha v ing troub ledo ing his schoo lwork . Ea ch t ime he sa t

a t his compu ter, his ema i l and Ins tantMessaging programs kep t beep ingw i th messages from his b irthrigh tisrael group . I t became c lear tha t theprogram was pro v iding a powerfu lgroup bonding experience. The ef fec t sof the trip were no t jus t indi v idua l, bu tco l lec t i ve, and the experience of be ingin a group w i th o ther Jews turned ou tt o be very mean ingfu l . In a cu l ture tha tempha s i zes indi v idua l i ty, andwho secommon elemen t s are hip -hop musi c ,spor t s teams , and clo th ing labels, i twas a pro found experience t o bond w i tho thers in the land of

,and in the con tex t

of,a -

yea r-old tradi t ion .

Ano the r RendezvousTh is year, a l so in January, ano therrendezvou s too k p la ce in I srael . Th i st ime

,our Brande i s research group,

wh i ch inc luded two fa cu l ty members,

a gradua te s tuden t , and severa lundergradua tes , met a t Jerusa lem'sC onven t ion C en ter . The c l imaxof a b irthrigh t i srael trip i s a hugega thering— a mega

-even t ”— where

thou sands of par t i c ipan ts hear fromdign i tar ies and celebra te wi th mu s i cand song . A t tha t n igh t ’s ”mega ,

” theyheard from Prime M in i s ter Sharonand saw per formances from t op I srael is ingers and dancers .

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The se t ting and the c ircums tances werequ i te di fferen t from tho se in Tiberiastwo years earl ier. Ins tead of a qu ie ttradi t iona l M i ddle Ea s tern res tauran t ,we were in a modern, securi tys crubbed fac i l i ty surrounded by theno i se of thousands of young peop le,amp l ified by an I srae l i roc k band . And

,

in contras t t o the di s cu s s ion we hadthen abou t the poss ib i l i ty of a pea ceagreement be tween Israel and Syria , thePrimeM in is ter ’s ta l k we had ju s t heardreminded us of the dark c louds tha twere obscuring hopes for pea ce .

N onetheless, our research experienceswere very much the same as they hadbeen a t the earl ier mee t ing . In our

ro les as par t ic ipan t -researchers , wewere jus t as caugh t up in the powero f the experience aswe hadbeenin 20 00 andwere aga in s tri v ing t oma in ta in ob jec t i v i ty. Even thoughsecuri ty concerns and the po l i t i ca ls i tua t ion were an ever-

presen t rea l i ty,part ic ipants, who had cho sen t o c ome

desp i te the curren t I srael i -Pa les t in ianconfl ic t

,s t i l l u sed the word ”

ama z ingt o describe their trip experiences . Theconfl ic t di d no t seem t o dimin i sh theexperience and b ir thrigh t i sra el hadimp lemented ex traordinary sa fe tyef forts t o a l lev ia te the ir concerns .

S ince the s tart of the program,more

than young a du l t s from a ll

over the world have par t i c ipa ted inb irthrigh t i srael . The C ohen C en terhas now ga thered da ta from more

than of them,andmore than

20 Brandeis part i c ipan t -ob serversha ve a ccompanied trip s . S tudyingt he impa c t of bir thrigh t i srael ha sbecome one of the C ohen C en ter ’smo s t v i s ib le research pro jec t s , andwew i l l con t inue t o tra c k b ir thrigh t i sraelpart i c ipan t s over the nex t few years . I ti s an unprecedented oppor tuni ty forresearchers t o learn abou t the evo lu t ionof Jew i sh i den t i ty and the l i ves ofyoung adu l t s .

For more informa t ion abou t theC ohen C en ter, and t o ob ta in therepor t s des cribed in th i s art i c le, v i s i t

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Modern Jewish S tudies and professora t The Heller School . Mark Rosen has

a doc tora te in organi za t iona l beha viorand is a senior research asso c ia te a tthe C ohen C en ter for Modern Jewish

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Firke Avo t,a Jewi sh book of w isdom,

a s k s,

”Who i s w i se? ” and answers“One who learns from everyone .

"By

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t o feel a connec t ion t o o thers, andtha t bonds forged through tradi t ionare very powerfu l . These lessons areimpor tan t for a ll of uswho workw i th co l lege s tuden t s , aswe gi vethough t t o the ways we so c ia l i ze andeduca te a genera t ion tha t w i l l soon berespons ib le for shap ing h i s tory .


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A rec o gnit ion of

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BoysDon’t C ry ! Rethinking

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Grea t er Bost on and

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In conjunct ion wi th theN a t iona l Jewish Fi lmC enter, loca l a lumniand ci t izens ga thered oncampus onMarch 1 4 forthe Boston premiere ofthe filmDespera te Hoursand for remarks by Osman

Faruk Logoglu ’

63 , TurkishAmbassador to the Uni tedS ta tes . The fi lm recountsthe l i t t le known s toryabout Turkey and theHo locaus t . The sold-out

event was held in theEdie and LewWasserman

C inema theque in the Sa charInterna t iona l C enter. (Seepho to on page


Alumni C lub ofGrea t er Bost on

OnDecember 9 , a lumniandgues ts ga thered for a4 0 th anniversary celebra tionof the Rose Art Museum.

Pres ident Ichuda Reinharz,Ph .D.

’

72,andRose Art

MuseumDirector JosephKetnermade remarks . I twas the fina l day of theexci ting exhibi t A DefiningGenera tion : Then and

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our secureWebs i te . Alumni

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73 andDet levSuderow

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70 who hope tha tthi s second annua l eventrema ins a club tradi t ionOn January 27 the C lubhos ted a lumni and fami lymembers for the receptiona t the Brandei s vs . EmoryUnivers i ty men

’s andwomen

’s basketba l l gamesand a chance t o vis i t wi thourma sco t

,O l l ie the Owl .

The event cha irs wereLeonard andAmy GreenbergBard

’

79 .

Alumni C lub o f C hic agoOn January 1 2, the C lubhosted i ts Annua l Alumniand S tudent Broomba l lGame for a lumni

,s tudents

,

and their fami lymembers .The event cha ir wasMarc iSperl ing Flynn ’

85 .

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Alumni C lub ofN ew York C it yAlumni

,parents

,s tudents

,

and friends enjoyed theannua l Brandeis vs . N YUbasketball game on January 1 2.

Danny Lehrman’

64 servedashos t . The coaches , C arolS imon and C hris Ford

,

were exci ted t o have theOpportuni ty t o meet a lumniandprovide a place forp layers and fami ly memberst o ga ther a fter the games .


Other Spec ia lEvents forA lumni

Ma rt a Kauffman '

7 8 ( se a t ed onso fa left ) ho st s fe llow a lumni inher home fo r a rec ept ionwit hPresident Re inha rz


Wa lt e r Mo ssb erg'

6 9 , J ehuda

Reinha rz, Ph .D.

'

72 , and

La urenc e Lipnick, P'

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Brandeis N ight2002

Baseba l l D iamond Ded icatedinMemory of Morry Stein ’

58

Presi d ent Reinha rz, Ph .D.

'

72 ,

S enio rVice President fo rInst it ut iona l Advanc ementN ancyW insh ip , Tamara Chasan '

9 1 ,

and Trust ee Kennet h Ka iserman’

6 0 ,

c ha ir of t he Brand eis UniversityAnnua l Fund


Recept ionfor

Wien a lumni visitw it h President Reinha rzand Turkish Amb assado rO . Fa ruk Logo g lu

'

8 3

( fa r left )

A lumni onStaff/Facultyat Brandeis

Brandeis current ly employsmore than facu l tyand sta ff members . Of tha tgroup , more than 1 1 percentare Brandei s a lumni . OnMarch 1 6 the O ffice ofAlumni Rela tions held awine and cheese receptiont o recognize these a lumniwho have chosen t o work a ttheir a lma ma ter .

The reception offered anopportuni ty for a lumniwho work in various


departments and officesa cross campus t o meetand share ideas . Paul S .

Rosens tein,ass is tant vice

pres ident for a lumni andUniversi ty rela t ions and theannua l fund

,encouraged the

a lumni ‘

in a t tendance to getas involved as poss ible ina lumni and campus l i fe bya t tending events, becominga mentor for undergradua tes,andby contribu ting t o theannua l fund. A highl ightof the ga theringwas aperformance by the studenta cappel la group S tarvingAr tists.


Wha t are you do ingC olumbus DayWeekend?

Plan t o return t o campus forFa l l Fes t 2002 !October 1 1 -1 4 , 20 02

Fun fo r a ll ages a t

S t reet Fest

Ce leb ra te Brandeis !

Fa l l Fest 2002 High l ightsinclude an a lumni/

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A lumni Col lege 2002Shap ing The Futu re

Enthus ias t ic a lumni andfriends of the Univers i tyga thered on campus for theBrandei s Univers i ty AlumniAssocia t ion’s annua lAlumni C o l lege, whi chwasheld on June 7, inconjunc tionwi th ReunionWeekend. Al umni C o l legeis a daylong academicadventure for Brandeisgradua tes , their fami l ies,and friends of the Universi ty.Thi s year’s program,

Shapingthe Future, fea tured classesand panel discuss ions wi thBrandei s fa cul tymembersand prominent a lumniaddressing important,current -event issues suchas privacy, immigra t ion,

wireless communica tion,

andAmeri ca ’s place inthe world.

Wel l -a t tendedmorningcla sses included a di s cussionabout contemporarydi lemma s around the i ssueof privacy fea turingMary

Davis, adjunct associa te

professor of Americans tudies, andMargaret A.

Sa l inger ’

82, author ofDream C a tcher: AMemo iranddaughter of J . D.

Sa l inger. Davis cons ideredi ssues centered on the

changing lega l s tandardsand ca ses regarding priva cy,whi le Sa l inger focusedon the perpetra t ion and

perpetua t ion of domes t i ctyranny and abuse .

LawrenceH. Fuchs , Meyer

andWa l ter Ja ffe professorofAmeri can civi l iza t ionandpo l i t ics

,reflected

on the future of U S .

immigra t ion,ethni ci ty, and

race . The former vice cha irof the U S . C ommi ssionon Immigra t ion Reform( 1 992 Fuchs hasbeen a Brandei s facu l tymember for 50 years andreceived an honorary degreefrom Brandei s duringC ommencement 2002 (seepage

Alumni C o l lege part i cipantshad the opportuni ty toexplore the fu ture ofwireless communi ca t ionand convergence wi thJordan Po l lack

,associa te

pro fessor of computerscience andVolen N a t iona lC enter for C omplexSystems, who ponderedwhether the end of

A lumni Assoc iat ionBoard of D i rectorsMeet ing

The spring business meetingof the Alumni Associa tionBoard ofDirec tors washeld on campus onMarch 1 6 . In addi tionto a fu l l meeting agendathe board members weretrea ted to a ha rdha t tour

telephone t ag threa tens t ochange humani ty ormerelyprovide ho t inves tmentareas . TedGup ’

72,a

professor of journa l i sma t C aseWestern ReserveUnivers i ty and formerinvest iga tive reporterfor The Wash ington PostandTimemagazine, ledthe sess ion Af ter the C o ldWar: Reinventing the C IA.

C up i s author of The BookofHonor: C overt Livesand C lassifiedDea ths a tthe C IA .

of the Shapiro C ampusC enter

,scheduled t o

open inAugust , a lectureand tour of the Rose ArtMuseum and the new Lo i sFos terWing by directorJoe Ketner, and remarksby senior admini s tra torsPresident Ichuda Reinha rz

,

Ph.D.

’

72, Provos t Mel

Bernstein,andSenior Vice

Pa cific Affa irs . Assi s tantProfessor of Socio logyDavid C unningham andhis

students shared experiencesfrom their yearlong courseabout socia l activism tha tincluded a 3 0 -day odysseythrough 1 7 s ta tes aboarda 40 - foo t s leeper bus inBrandei s on the Road:Poss ibi l i t ies for C hange inAmerican C ommuni ties .

The day culmina ted in a

pass iona te di scuss ion aboutthe present s ta te and thefuture direction ofmediaand the arts

,Ma ss Appea l :

The C ul tura l Hypnosi s ofPopu lar C ul ture . Fea turedpanel is ts wereM i chaelMurray, the B lanche,Barbara

,and Irving Laurie

adjunct professor ofthea ter arts anddirector

,

thea ter arts program;

Arnie Rei sman '

64 , a

wri t er/produc er/performerworking in commercia land pub l i c TV,

corpora tevideo

,journa l i sm

,and film;

and Steve Vineberg ’

72,

professor of thea ter a t theC o l lege of the Ho ly C ro ss .

Pres ident for Ins t i tut iona lAdvancement N ancy K.

Winship . Pres ident Reinharza l so hooded immedia tepas t Alumni Associa t ionpresident Sharyn Sooho ’

69

as a Fel low of the Univers i ty(See page


After a relaxing pi cni clunch

, a t tendees returnedfor a fternoon sessions .Turbulent Times

,Turbulent

N a t ions : Perceptions ofAmeri ca fromHome andAbroad fea tured a paneldi scuss ion wi thWel l ingtonN yangoni , professor ofAfrican andAfro -Ameri canstudies

,L inda Scherzer '

82,senior partner a t Scherzer

,

Dubin Associa tes, andformer C N N correspondentand reporter for Israel itelevision, and S tephenSo larz ’

62, senior counselora t APC O associa tes

,

former congressman, and

former cha ir of the HouseC ommi t tee on As ian and

In accordance wi th thebylaws of the AlumniAssocia t ion one-ha l f of theMembers -a t -Large are t obe elected each year for atwo -

year term. A commi t teecha ired by Sharyn Sooho ’

69 ,

immedia te pas t na tiona lAlumni Associa t ionpres ident

,hasnomina ted

the fo l lowing individua ls .

Paula Apse ll'

69

N ewton,MA

Persona l :Married toSheldon Apsell, Ph .D.

’

72

Pro fess iona l :Direc tor of theWGBH-TV science uni t andexecu t ive producer of thelong-running science seriesN OVA. Her honors includeeight Emmy Awards , aPeabody Award, a DupontC o lumbia Award, and anAcademy Awardnomina t ionin 1 996 for Specia l EffectsEduca t ion: B A ,

psycho logyBrandeis Activi ties : AlumniAchievement Awardrecipient, 1999 , AlumniC o l lege speaker, andcurrent member of theScience C ounci l


For a current ca lendarof act ivi t ies or formore deta i ls

,visi t ht tp :

orwa t ch yourma i l forinvi ta tions to the fol lowingprograms (sub ject tochange )


Thursday, September 5U S . Open Tenni sC hampionships -Q uart erfina lMa tches

Alumni C lub of Houst onSunday, Augus t 1 8N ew-S tudent Send-O ffBrunch

Alumni C lub of N ort hernN ew JerseySunday, August 1 8N ew-S tudent Send-O ffBarbecue

S t anley B roo ks’

79

LosAngeles, C APersona l :Married to TanyaLopez Brooks , two chi ldrenProfess iona l : Once UponA Time Productions

,an

independent film product ioncompany, member of Boardof Governors, Academyof Televis ion Ar ts andSciences, facul tymember,Ameri can F i lm Ins ti tu teEduca t ion: B A

,psychology

Brandei s Act ivi t ies : AlumniAdmi ssions C ounci l,frequent lecturer infilm

,50 th Anniversary

Fi lm production

Alumni C lub of C hic agoSunday, Augus t 1 8N ew-S tudent Send-Off

Wednesday, October 1 6Brandei s N ight 20 02Reception wi th PresidentIchuda Reinharz

,Ph.D.

’

72,

and keyno te address byC hris tie Hefner '

74

Alumni C lub of S out hern

C a lifo rniaSunday, Augus t 1 8N ew-S tudent Send-O ffBarbecue

Alumni C lub o f C inc inna t i

Tuesday, Augus t 20N ew-Student Send-Off

Ba rb a ra Krasin Kravit z ’

5 7

Hampton, N H

Persona l : Married toS . Wendel l Kravi tz, onechi ldProfess iona l : FormerGovernor, SocieteBankhouse

Educa tion: B A,Ameri can

studiesB randeis Act ivi t ies : Fel low

,

Grea ter Bos ton AlumniLeadership andhos t ofnumerous JBS events, 3othReunion Program cha ir,3 5 th Reunion G if t cocha ir

,

member-a t - large andmember of execu t ivecommi t tee N a t iona l AlumniBoard 1 965—1 96 7

,2002

yearbook cha ir for 4 5 thReunion

,Alumni Service t o

Associa t ion Award 1 973

Alumni C lub o f C o lo rado

Wednesday, Augus t 2 1N ew-S tudent Send-Off

Alumni C lub of Grea t er

Bost on

Tuesday, Augus t 20Recent Gradua tes N etworkKi ck Off Happy Hour

Wednesday, September 1 1Downtown Lunch Series

Tuesday, October 8Brandei s Breakfa s t Series

Fut ure Alumni o f Brande isTuesday, September 24World of Educa t ion and

Publ i c Service


A lumni C lubs


Domest i cArizonaRona ld ”

Ron Lowe’

69

arizona@a lumni .brandeis.edu

Ba lt imoreBarbara Kirsner Berg

’

76

ba l timore@a lumni .brandeis.edu

Grea t er Bost on

E l len Beth Lande ’

73 and

Det lev Suderow ’

70

bost on@alumni .brandeis.edu

N ort hern C a lifo rnianorthca lifornia@


S out hern C a lifo rnia

Laurie S la ter Albert ’74sou thcalifornia@


C ha rlo t t e

Ru th Abrams Go ldberg '

53

andAudrey Rogovin

Madams ’

53

charlo t te@alumni .brandeis.edu

C h ic ago

DavidDesser ’

90

chi cago@a lumni .brandeis.edu

C inc inna t iC harles ”

C huck and

Darlene Green Kamine ’

74

cincinna t i@a lumni .brandeis.edu

S out hern Flo rida

Gi lbert ”Gil” Drozdow ’79

southflorida@


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Facu lty Presenters

Ra lph NormanBarbecue


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Reunion2002 Cand ids


Fa cult y

Ka rl Eigst i

C harles Bloom AdjunctPro fessor of the Ar ts ofDesign,

was awarded the

Di s t ingui shedAchievementAward in Scenic Design bythe Uni ted S ta tes Inst i tutefor Thea ter Techno logy(U SITT ) . The awardwaspresented a t USITT ’

s

Annua l C onference andS tage Expo, where aretrospective of hisworkwas a l so on di splay. Eigst i

had previously received theLosAngeles Drama logueAward and the Helen HayesAward for hiswork in theresident professiona l thea ter.

Robert Greenberg

associa te professor ofphi losophy, del ivered apaper, The Role of Sensa tionin Kant ’s TranscendentalIdeal ism, a t themeet ing ofthe Ameri can Phi losophi ca lAssocia t ion

, C entra lDivis ion

,in C hi cago . The

paper wi l l receive a cri ti ca lcomment . At the same

meet ing bewi l l a l so cha iran

“AuthorMeets C ri t i cs ”

sess ion on a book aboutKant ’s theory of na ture.

Ja cqueline JonesTruman Professor ofAmerican C ivi l iza t ion, waschosen for the Universi ty ofDelaware’s Alumni Wa l l ofFame thi s spring .

Edwa rd K. Kap lan

professor of French andcompara tive l i tera ture andcha ir

,Program in Rel igious

S tudies, parti cipa tedin severa l events inFebruary 2002: the openingplenary address, "Undermy C a tho l ic a

paper on Revela tion and

C ommi tment : AbrahamJ. Heschel

’

s S i tua tionalPhilosophy a t anInterna t iona l C onferenceon Jewish Phi losophy inthe 20 th century a t theUniversi ty of N aples, I ta ly;presented a videotapedinterview wi th RebZa lman Schachter-Shelomi,founder of Jewish Renewa lmovement

,and inMarch

”Thoma s Merton’s Openingt o Juda ism and theWorld,and a workshop onMerton’sconvers ions a t a conferenceof the Interna t iona l ThomasMerton Society, Vancouver,Bri t ish C o lumbia

,C anada .

Joan Ma lingpro fessor of l ingui s ti cs,was the fea tured speakera t the Eighth Germani cL inguis ti cs Annua lC onference held a t IndianaUniversi ty. In her plenaryaddress, ”

From passive t oact ive: a syntact ic change inprogress ,” Ma l ing di scussedthe resul ts of a na t ionwidesurvey of 1 0 th

graders, whi ch represents4 5 percent of a ll Icelandi cs tudents born in 1 984 . The

s tudy was conducted inco l labora t ion wi th S igriur S igurjénssdét t ir a t theUniversi ty of Iceland.

Amelie Oksenberg Ro rt yprofessor of class ica ls tudies anddirec tor

,

humani t ies center andthe Program in the

His tory of Ideas, receivedanHonorary ResearchFel lowship a t the C lark ArtInst i tute inWi l l iams town,

Massachuset ts .

C ha rlesDunhama ssocia te director ofpubl ica tions anddesigndirector, recentlyreceivedhonors from the

N ew EnglandMuseumAssocia t ion. Hisdes ign ofthe Fos terWing OpeningInvi ta tion earnedhim a

secondplace award in theInvita t ions : Exhibi t ionsca tegory.

C ha rles Frema ulta pa inter in fa cil i tiesservices

,was recently

honoredwi th the Loui seandHelen Zirkel Award

,

wh ich i s given t o a serviceemployee who has made

a s ignificant contribut ionand/or hasdemons tra tedcons is tent effort to improvethe services andopera t ionof b i s/her department andof the Universi ty. Fremault

,

who hasworked a t Brandei sfor 25 years , was selectedas the eighth annua l awardrecipient .

Ra lph S zymc zakreference l ibrarian ingovernment documents ,received the s ixth annua lLou Enni s Award

,which

honors a member of theadmini s tra tive s ta ff whohasdemons tra ted loya l tyanddedi ca tion t o Brandeisand t o i ts mission,

who i sprofess iona l

,helpful

,and

friendly,andwho i s known

to consis tent ly trea t a llmembers of the communi tywi th respect anddigni ty.




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