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(03/15/16 6:19am)
On Monday, after three days of debate and 39 hours of filibuster by Democratic state senators, the Missouri Senate voted on and approved a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would protect religious groups that refuse to facilitate same-sex marriages, according to a March 9 New York Times article. Before becoming official, the bill must pass the state Senate once more and then pass the state House. This proposed amendment highlights the constitutional struggle between those who claim same-sex marriages are an affront to their First Amendment religious freedom and the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. Do you think this proposed state amendment is constitutional, and what is the best way for the First Amendment and Obergefell v. Hodges to coexist?
(03/15/16 3:02am)
Last Tuesday the Women’s Studies Research Center celebrated International Women’s Day with Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard (WSRC), a self-proclaimed feminist before the women’s movement.
(03/08/16 9:18am)
Students addressed the issues of race and environmentalism surrounding the Flint water crisis and how individuals might provide assistance to those in urban or underserved areas in a panel discussion on Wednesday. The event, titled “From Ford Hall to Flint: A Conversation On Environmental Racism and Activism,” was moderated by Saren McAllister ’18 and Roger Perez MA-SID/MBA '16 and was sponsored by the Brandeis Pluralism Alliance and Brandeis Climate Justice.
(03/08/16 8:27am)
On Friday, a Harvard Law School committee tasked with reviewing the use of the school’s seal made a formal recommendation to the Harvard Corporation — which has final say over all decisions regarding Harvard University — in favor of removing the seal altogether.
(03/08/16 5:10am)
At the 88th annual Academy Awards last Sunday, Brandeis alumnus Michael Sugar ’95 stepped onto the stage at the Dolby Theater to accept the Academy Award for “Spotlight,” which won Best Picture as well as Best Screenplay that night.
(03/08/16 4:53am)
This week, our Forum section planned to include a column from Dor Cohen ’16, who for the past year has been a columnist for this section. We now have reason to believe that Cohen directly plagiarized several sections of the column he had planned for this week, and that the Justice has published plagiarism in at least four of Cohen’s past columns. As a result, Cohen is no longer a columnist for the Forum section.
(03/08/16 4:53am)
In a Feb. 24 email titled “Update on diversity and inclusion efforts,” Interim President Lisa Lynch described the foundation of a new scholarship model for the coming year. In part, Lynch stated that the University would be establishing “a new pilot program based on the Posse Model [that] will offer a full-tuition scholarship and a $10,000 stipend to as many as five students per year” in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Lynch neither offered an explanation for the source of this funding nor elaborated whether this stipend would come with any stipulations.
(03/01/16 8:15am)
Interim University President Lisa Lynch’s salary ranks in the lowest 7th percentile of comparable institutions, according to a presentation on executive compensation that Board of Trustees Chair Perry Traquina ’78 gave at Friday’s faculty meeting.
(03/01/16 3:23am)
The women’s basketball team ended their season on Saturday losing to New York University 70-56 at home, after losing to the University of Chicago 63-50 last Sunday. With the loss on Saturday, the Judges finish the season with a 12-13 record overall and 5-9 record in University Athletic Association play.
(03/01/16 5:25am)
As a Trustee, adjunct associate professor at the International Business School, alumnus, parent of alumnae and donor, I watched with interest the events on campus in the late fall when students took over the Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center as part of a concerted effort to make and negotiate for a set of demands.
(03/01/16 5:25am)
A few years ago, someone asked me when I started identifying as a feminist, and I struggled to answer. Since childhood, I’ve always believed in — to quote author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — “the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.” Part of the reason I’ve identified as a feminist, even if I didn’t always understand that label, is my mother. Thanks to her, I’ve always felt confident in myself and my abilities despite living in a society that can often belittle or doubt women, and I’ve always felt comfortable speaking up in the classroom regardless of how male-dominated it is. Better still, with her support and keen eye for editing cover letters, I found a dream internship at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. My mother and I have always tended to agree on most political issues, and when we’ve had our disagreements, like all mothers and daughters do, it’s over small things — like how I dye my hair liberally with blue streaks or my stubborn insistence on only studying dead languages. However, the 2016 primaries has triggered a larger disagreement over politics, progressivism and how to judge whether a candidate is feminist and whose feminism should be used as that metric.
(02/26/16 5:14am)
This article has been updated in the March 1 issue of the Justice.
(02/09/16 4:28am)
Last Friday, the Department of Community Living proposed two changes to the University’s housing lottery system in an email to students, which would break up class year-specific housing quads and offering better housing lottery numbers to students loyal to campus housing. A survey will be sent to the student body today so that they can provide feedback on these proposals and suggest new ways of improving the housing lottery. If the student body shows approval of the proposals in the survey, the policies would be put into effect for this semester’s upcoming housing lottery.
(02/09/16 4:01am)
On Wednesday, civil rights lawyer, songwriter and jazz tap dancer Germaine Ingram delivered the ’DEIS Impact keynote address, an unconventional artistic presentation titled “The Law and the Stage: Platforms for Pursuing Social Justice." The speech, which took place in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater, focused on the limited capacity of the legal system to consider the complex narratives that offer real insight into people’s lives, as well as on art as a means of filling that void.
(02/09/16 2:06am)
From proposals on the Massell bridge to meeting for the first-time at alumni events, Brandeisians have been coming together since the University’s inception — and each story is different from the last. According to the Office of Alumni Relations, about 10 percent of Brandeis undergraduate alumni marry fellow alumni. In an interview with the Justice, F. Patricia Fisher, the vice president of alumni relations, explained the phenomenon affectionately called “Louie Love.”
(02/02/16 3:55am)
This year’s production of “Quickies” from the Brandeis Ensemble Theatre offered bite-sized entertainment that showcased the original talents of the undergraduate performance community.
(01/26/16 6:57am)
Human rights organization Amnesty International recently released a report tracing cobalt, an essential element in the production of lithium-ion batteries, back to mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo that practice child labor. According to UNICEF estimates, around 40,000 children work in mines across southern DRC. During the course of its research, Amnesty discovered 16 multinational corporations listed as customers of Huayou Cobalt, which has been known to utilize child labor. Among those multinationals are Apple, Sony and Samsung, all three of which claim to have a zero-tolerance policy in regards to child labor. What actions, if any, should these multinationals take in response to Amnesty’s findings, and how should consumers react?
(01/26/16 6:21am)
According to Moroccan-born Israeli anthropologist and author André Levy, “In my eyes, anthropology, more than any other discipline in the social sciences, aspires to be present in life itself, in order to make sense of it and to give it meaning. It attempts to understand human action from an immediate closeness of which there is no comparison in the social sciences.”
(01/19/16 7:34am)
“‘Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love,’” Dean of Students Jamele Adams stated at the 11th annual Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on Monday night. The quote, which comes from the event’s namesake, was one of many shared that night by speakers and performers who wished to convey the many aspects of Black history and the Civil Rights movement that King embodied.
(01/19/16 6:40am)
After having held the positions of senior vice president, chief of staff, chief legal officer, and assistant secretary and clerk of the board of trustees, David Bunis ’83 has left Brandeis to take a position as partner at Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar law firm in Boston. Bunis began at Brandeis in Jan. 2011 as Chief of Staff.
