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In a commencement ceremony at a Catholic university, the justice said that fundamental principles were in peril at universities and American society.
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 Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Everett CollectionAnna Maria Italiano from the Bronx traveled almost as far to become Anne Bancroft as Lucille LeSueur did to become Joan Crawford.
When she was one month short of graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a casting director gave her a role in Turgenev's Torrents of Spring for the TV show Studio One. The following year she tested for a movie role at 20th Century Fox. Studio head Darryl Zanuck saw her screen test, said, "Sign that girl," and presented her with a list of new last names. "They all sounded like I should have looked like Lana Turner, or been a stripper, all except Bancroft, which sounded dignified," she remembered, then spent the fifties typecast as a film noir starlet in movies ranging from New York Confidential to Gorilla at Large to The Girl in Black Stockings.
The last straw came after a string of forgettable roles. "I began to realize you can't wait for the gods to bless you with the right part," said Bancroft. "Finally, I thought I'd help the gods help me. So I went to New York."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The evaluation was a response to pressure from President Biden's allies in Congress who sought to force a discussion about Israel's use of U.S. weapons in Gaza.
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We look at how university administrators have responded to Palestine solidarity protests by students with Frederick Lawrence, former president of Brandeis University and now the CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and a lecturer at Georgetown Law School. Brandeis was founded in 1948 by the American Jewish community in the wake of the Holocaust and named after the first Jewish Supreme Court justice, the celebrated free speech advocate Louis Brandeis. Lawrence says the nationwide university crackdown on student protesters is a worrying violation of the principles of academic freedom. "Provoking people, challenging people, asking difficult questions, making people uncomfortable, that's part of the price of living in a democracy," he says. He also notes that what constitutes a threat to campus safety should be narrowly defined. "You are not entitled to be intellectually safe. You are entitled to be physically safe."
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