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(11/16/22 11:00am)
Upon 17 year- old Mahsa Amini’s death, after being held in police custody on Sept. 16, women’s rights protests broke out across Iran. Western coverage of Iranian revolutions have historically minimized women’s influence over the movements. This continues today. The focus of media coverage is rapidly shifting as international reporters compete for eye-catching headlines.
(11/16/22 11:00am)
For the past several years, the University has attempted to develop new housing around campus. Post pandemic, the University has seemingly made no further progress in new housing developments yet continues to admit growing numbers of students. Previously, the board critiqued this issue in a Sept. 20 editorial, specifically calling out the University’s lack of housing resources for an increased student demographic. In fact, this year’s freshman class is the largest yet, with 1,007 students.
(11/08/22 11:00am)
If you were to skim across the channels of late-night television shows, you’d only find older white men hosting shows, but that’s not the case for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” and they have Trevor Noah to thank for that. Noah, the South African comedian and television personality, is anything but the norm. He is a young, biracial immigrant whose career in comedy and television is only just beginning. Born to parents that were never supposed to be together, a Xhosa African mother and a white father, Noah grew up in South Africa after the apartheid. Since his parents had an interracial relationship, Noah seldom saw his father and spent much of his childhood living with his mother and grandparents. The cities and neighborhoods in South Africa were divided by color, and the Black neighborhood he lived in was a dangerous one to be seen in. As Noah explained in an interview with Terri Gross on NPR, , “My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying with the family in Soweto ... if the police did show up ... it was a constant game of hide-and-seek.”
(11/08/22 11:00am)
Content warning: this editorial discusses instances of sexual assault.
(11/01/22 10:00am)
It’s been a hard couple of months for fans in parasocial relationships. As we’ve seen, fans of the Try Guys and Kanye West continue to be let down time and time again by their favorite creators. I think now is a perfect opportunity to examine parasocial relationships that have led to a staggering amount of young people defending someone like Kanye West, despite his his antisemitic comments on Twitter . This is also an opportunity to talk about pop culture and how the celebrity system rewards parasocial relationships and fans interacting with celebrities’ opinions and content uncritically.
(11/01/22 3:21pm)
As we near the end of the semester, this editorial board would like to thank our professors for all of their hard work. We appreciate all you have done in persevering through the unusual educational environment brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, working hard to give individualized attention to your students, and showing up to each class with enthusiasm and energy. It is especially important to note that faculty of color face even more challenges than their co-workers, such as racism and providing unpaid labor in the form of sitting on Diversity Equity and Inclusion committees, hosting events and panels on topics such as anti-racism and diversity, and supporting students of color who face similar issues.
(11/01/22 10:00am)
The window between late October and Thanksgiving is now upon us, and although midterms are nearly over, students remain prone to burnout. This past month, students rarely had a full week of classes due to various holidays, but from here on until Thanksgiving, students do not have any extra days off from their classes. This period of time is one where students often start to feel burnt out, whether it’s due to a second wave of midterms, multitudes of homework, or just simply not having any time to themselves. This board would like to offer advice to students on how to stay sane and take care of themselves until our next break.
(10/25/22 4:18pm)
The University campus is in dire need of increased accessibility across many aspects of campus life. Thanks to the Student Union, however, a step has been taken in the right direction. On Thursday, Oct. 13, under the directive of Hana Klempnauer Miller ’25, the director of accessibility for the Student Union, the Union launched a new initiative to make prescription medications more accessible via a medication delivery service through the e-pharmacy Capsule. Capsule provides prescriptions in the same way any normal pharmacy does, but instead of having to pick them up in-person at a store, students can have their prescriptions delivered directly to campus in a private manner and free of charge for delivery, per an Oct. 4 Justice article.
(10/25/22 4:16pm)
On Sept 7, the University’s new dining provider Harvest Table abruptly fired Kevintz Merisier, a longtime catering lead, with no warning. In the wake of Merisier’s yet-unexplained dismissal, the Brandeis Leftist Union created a petition demanding his reinstatement and organized a joint student-worker delegation on Sept. 22 to deliver the letter, which garnered over 600 signatures. When the students attempted to deliver the petition to Director of Hospitality Clayton Hargrove, he evaded the group and called Brandeis Police for “police assistance.” Hargrove declined to rehire Merisier on Sept. 27, and Harvest Table representatives have refused to provide statements or interviews to the Justice.
(10/25/22 4:26pm)
Growing up, my Mama was always the one who styled my hair. She would do the difficult labor of washing, conditioning, and combing my strong curls. As a young brown girl, I don’t believe I ever realized how much work it took to style natural hair, but I would always cry because I was so tender-headed. I loved the way my Mama did my hair, but I hated being in the “hair chair.” The hair chair, a traditional wooden chair with a pillow in the seat, was pulled into the living room whenever Mama was going to do my hair. I’d sit there for what felt like hours. Then when I was done, I would rush to the mirror to examine my beautiful braids. Recently, I went down memory lane — I looked at old polaroid pictures and flipped through them fondly. I was amazed as I looked at myself, realizing that when I was younger, my hair was always natural. I realized that, back then, I was free. I was so happy and I never really seemed to think about beauty or question if my hair was an obstacle to that definition.
(10/25/22 4:15pm)
Writing a memoir, selling my art, and making a podcast have all been on my list of things to do in my life. I am happy to announce that I am really, really close to completing my list. I sold some of my art for the first time last semester at the Create@Brandeis Craft Market, and now this October I am releasing my very first podcast. After taking Prof. Adriana Lacy’s (JOUR) class on social journalism, my interest in different forms of journalism flourished. I grew up listening to NPR, the “Moth Radio Hour” and a variety of podcasts, but I realized that storytelling is the thread to everything I am passionate about. Film, animation, art, and now journalism all incorporate storytelling. I decided to make a podcast not only because it has been on my list, but because podcasting allows an audience to relate and listen. I learned that through a podcast, you can turn research and numbers into human stories.
(10/03/22 1:36pm)
To our Friends at The Justice,
(10/04/22 3:27pm)
Born with a rather aggressive form of developmental dislocation of the hip, my life has always been filled with surgeries and “mild” inconveniences. Surgeons were able to patch me up with six surgeries, and I can walk almost like everyone else for short distances, except for one problem: stairs.
(10/04/22 3:24pm)
For once, I can understand why fall is some folks’ favorite season.
(10/04/22 3:24pm)
Student employment is incredibly vital to the functionality of Brandeis campus. Our Brandeis University Medical Corps service is a student-run, volunteer emergency group that provides medical attention to the Brandeis community. In addition, the BranVan is a student-run shuttle service that helps students, faculty, and staff to different parts of campus and Waltham. Our student research positions also serve as a great help to our community and faculty as researchers further along and contribute to academic projects and shape the curriculum of future class courses. Students can generally apply for these jobs through Workday, but the application process varies. Those with work study are given priority for the first month of the fall semester. Brandeis advertises that it has over 200 student-run clubs and organizations. However, a large majority of students within organizations are not adequately compensated.
(09/20/22 1:26pm)
The dining hall experience at Brandeis was off to a rough start at the very beginning of August — with limited options, overcrowded dining halls, and long wait times — but some notable and commendable changes have been made since then. The University officially signed a contract with Harvest Table Culinary Group in July 2022 after students “were left disenchanted” with Sodexo, a catering giant, as per a May 3 Justice article. The Brandeis Sustainability Ambassadors heavily advocated for Harvest Table because the dining service emphasized sustainability in aspects of labor, service, and food preparation.
(09/20/22 1:25pm)
News, in my mind, are recent events often tied to sadness and corruption. Throughout my childhood, I watched the news because my mom did, but I never enjoyed it except when I would see a face like Robin Roberts or Gayle King. I hated seeing loops of destruction and war replaying in cycles every five hours. During my last two years of high school, I listened intently to the radio more often, and soon I could instantly recognize Maria Hinojosa from “Latino USA’’ or Terry Gross from National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air.” I usually do not go out of my way to seek out news — I just wait until I hear about something, usually second-hand from a professor, friend, or someone’s re-post on social media. I rarely, if ever, choose to Google “news” or look up the “New York Times.” A Pew Research study from 2016 shows 18-29 year-olds are less than enthusiastic about news. The study reported that young adults are more likely to use social media to get news compared to older generations.
(09/20/22 1:26pm)
We’ve begun the fall semester of the 2022-23 school year! If you’re anything like me, an overzealous, career-driven maniac, you might be confused as to why you’re already burned out. You have all these plans for your future and the drive to get there, but you’re having trouble making concrete steps to achieve those goals. As a person with ADHD, I’ve always found it challenging to stick with one thing at a time. One day I’ll have a burning passion for becoming a world-class pianist, then give up a week later and move on to something else. This happens in school too while pursuing the various majors and career paths I’m interested in. My mind bounces around so much from interest to interest that it’s easy to feel defeated when I push another passion aside.
(09/20/22 1:25pm)
The Brandeis population has grown steadily over the past several years, with the class of 2026 now the largest first-year class in Brandeis history with an enrollment of 1,007 students, compared to the class of 2025’s initial enrollment of 953 students.Despite the fact that the undergraduate population has been steadily growing, the University’s infrastructure has been struggling to keep up.
(09/13/22 3:19pm)
When I was a kid, I begged my family to watch “The Devil Wears Prada” over three times a month. The scenes where the main character, Andrea, transformed into a highly fashionable woman who wore beautifully tailored and curated outfits are seared into my brain. That movie first sparked my interest in fashion. From then on, I would flip through magazines to see the new collections designers debuted for the season. I even asked my grandmother to teach me how to make dresses with our 1980s thrifted sewing machine. I was in awe of how glamorous the industry looked and how much thought seemingly went into every piece of clothing. I longed to be a part of that world even just for a second. However, that dream felt largely unattainable. I never saw a Black woman who I felt looked like me on the red carpets or sitting in the front row of fashion shows. I just assumed that there was no space for me, and that I would always just have to look on from the outside, or in this case, from my childhood bedroom drenched in pink and covered in magazine clippings.
