10.31.2003
Brandeis Justice back online
First up: a 3,300 word story on how "Racism slips past editors."
Some things of note in there:
The editorial:
The Brandeis Black Student Organization (BBSO) responds:
"If this were to happen again at Brandeis, to any community, always remember the words that rang out at 2:30 in the morning and will forever echo throughout the halls of the Shapiro Campus Center..."
We can guess that those words probably aren't "Steve, Steve [the editor-in-chief]... we'll get you..."
Here's a separate article about what happened that morning.
The editor-in-chief's letter of resignation, as well as the feature editor's.
The masthead has been changed as well.
Some things of note in there:
Passner attributed this quote to [Brandeis student]. Passner's previous columns have cited [Brandeis student] on other occasions.and this:
[Brandeis student] said that he had not been interviewed for the Oct. 21 column, nor had he been interviewed by Passner for any previous article.
Passner himself has a long history of including racist remarks in his columns. A case in point is his column in the Sept. 16 issue of the Justice, titled "The Art of Selig Bashing," in which, according to Professor Jacob Cohen (AMST), "he used the same language as the Nazis did when they referred to Jews in terms of diseases as a way of describing Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who himself is a Jew."
In that issue, Passner continued further to say that "if the Third Reich were making Der Sturmer today, there is no doubt that Allen 'Bud' Selig would be on the cover." He followed this comment in the next paragraph by comparing Selig to Yasser Arafat...
The editorial:
We still strive to be your advocate and your megaphone. We still strive to be the best newspaper we can be, not just for ourselves and our pride, but for the good of the whole Brandeis community. But we have been severely weakened by this past week, and we are left exhausted.
We still stand behind our newspaper, and those of us who remain are trying to stand as strong as possible as an Editorial Board. But we admit that we do not know the future of this paper. Our namesake, which has been a source of pride for over 54 years, is in danger, even as we put our hearts and souls into trying to save it. The future weeks will be trying for us as an organization, as well as members of the Brandeis community. We ask for your forgiveness, we ask for your understanding, but most of all, we ask you to start dealing with the greater issue of racism and the incredible need for members of this campus to start reaching out to each other...
The Brandeis Black Student Organization (BBSO) responds:
"If this were to happen again at Brandeis, to any community, always remember the words that rang out at 2:30 in the morning and will forever echo throughout the halls of the Shapiro Campus Center..."
We can guess that those words probably aren't "Steve, Steve [the editor-in-chief]... we'll get you..."
Here's a separate article about what happened that morning.
The editor-in-chief's letter of resignation, as well as the feature editor's.
The masthead has been changed as well.
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