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(11/13/18 11:00am)
The architect of the Americans with Disabilities Act, former Democratic Iowa senator Tom Harkin, discussed the importance of disability legislation on Wednesday as the featured speaker of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy’s Annual Distinguished Lecture. Harkin’s lecture, titled “True Integration: Meaningful Work for People with Disabilities,” celebrated the expansion of rights for Americans with disabilities since the 1990 passage of the ADA, but criticized the lack of progress made in government policies to encourage economic self-sufficiency for citizens with disabilities.
(11/13/18 11:00am)
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(10/30/18 10:00am)
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(10/30/18 4:00am)
After a dominant playoff run, the Boston Red Sox took home their first World Series win since 2013. This season, the team amassed 108 wins and was the top team of the stacked American League East division. Their sworn rivals, the New York Yankees, won 100 games this year, which ordinarily would have easily gotten them the division crown, but only earned them a wild card spot. This just goes to show how historic this year’s Sox squad was.
(10/30/18 10:00am)
“Hey, I’ll see you around,” Robert Singer ’19 said on his way out of his politics class. “I gotta go buy a banana so I don’t die.”
(10/30/18 10:00am)
PURE SPORT: In 1978, former TRON member, Mike Banks ’29 told the Boston Globe that Ultimate Frisbee is the “purest sport.”
(10/23/18 6:11pm)
At the time of this article’s publishing, the college football regular season is now about halfway over. With seven weeks to go in the regular season, teams are gearing up for the home stretch, ready to make the last push and prove they deserve consideration for the top bowl games and FBS playoffs.
(10/23/18 10:00am)
The Brandeis Librarians’ Union expressed frustration over their contract negotiations with the University in a campaign during Family Weekend. The BLU, which is connected to the Service Employees International Union Local 888, have been negotiating with the University administration since June 2018 to collectively bargain for fair contracts for Brandeis librarians, according to a flyer handed out by members of the Union. (University Librarian Matthew Sheehy, a representative for the University in the negotiations, clarified in an email to the Justice that Internet and Technology Services is not a part of this negotiation.)
(10/23/18 10:00am)
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(10/23/18 10:00am)
This is a historic year for the Toxic Majorette Dance Line. Formed in 2015 under the umbrella of the Brandeis Black Student Organization, this year the team became an independent, University-chartered club. They celebrated this acheivement in Saturday’s enormous showcase “Pick your Poison,” demonstrating not only their skills but also those of a variety of other dance and music groups.
(10/16/18 10:00am)
ALL HANDS ON DECK: BEMCo staff were on standby at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center during the hazardous material incident at the Mods on Friday afternoon.
(10/16/18 10:00am)
The game of baseball requires a level of patience that cannot be matched by any other sport. While it is undoubtedly a popular national pastime, the games are long and slow and the season has twice as many games as those of the other big four sports (football, basketball and hockey make up the other three). As the weather is beginning to cool down from the heat of the summer, the Major League Baseball season is raging to a close, with the playoffs now in full swing.
(10/16/18 10:00am)
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(10/09/18 10:00am)
In a moderated discussion with high school and graduate students, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum encouraged members of the Brandeis and Waltham communities to think about whose voices are heard in classrooms and what teachers can do to influence participation from diverse perspectives. The 2018 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize recipient shared experiences from her time as a professor and explained the ideas developed in her famous book, “‘Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?’ And Other Conversations About Race.”
(10/09/18 10:00am)
While waiting for physical therapy, a group of student athletes noticed Marci McPhee’s sweatshirt and asked what sport she coached. “Uh...” McPhee responded. “It’s a social justice thing — ’DEIS Impact.”
(10/02/18 10:00am)
The story of trivia begins in the Ancient World. Trivia, meaning “unimportant matters,” derived as a back-formation of trivialis, which meant “found everywhere, commonplace” or “vulgar.” An online column from Merriam-Webster, shedding light on the etymology of trivia, noted that the term — and the titular game — “sometimes gets a bad rap” because of a related word, trivial, meaning “of little worth or importance.” When used in a singular construction, it means “a quizzing game involving obscure facts.” The lay meaning of the trivia, according to Merriam-Webster, is “obscure facts and details that aren’t applicable to one’s day-to-day life.”
(09/18/18 10:00am)
Jeffrey Ward was recently named the University’s interim Athletics director, according to an email sent by President Liebowitz on Sept. 4, 2018.
(09/18/18 10:00am)
On April 6, 2018, Brandeis men’s basketball coach Brian Meehan was dismissed following accusations of discrimination against and abuse of members of the team. Since then, there has been an independent investigation into the inner workings of the Athletic Department, and on Sept. 4, University President Ron Liebowitz sent a 25 page summary report to the Brandeis community, the first part of two updates that will be released to the Brandeis community.
(09/18/18 10:00am)
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