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As part of ’Deis Impact, the University’s annual festival of social justice, the Brandeis Pluralism Alliance opened BPArt: Pluralism and the Arts on Friday. The exhibit, located in the Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery, is compiled of submissions from the Brandeis community meant to demonstrate interpretations of pluralism and social justice.
On Thursday, Brandeis students voted to fill four vacant Student Union seats: Vice President, Rosenthal Quad Senator, Ziv Quad Senator and Midyear Senator. This election was the first round of two in the winter 2015 election cycle.
University President Frederick Lawrence announced this afternoon that he will be stepping down at the end of this academic year.
Following the leak of faculty emails from the restricted “Concerned” Listserv this past summer and University President Frederick Lawrence’s response to the comments in a July 28, 2014 statement, some faculty members have expressed concerns regarding freedom of speech on campus.
Members of the Brandeis community gathered Monday night in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater for the University’s 10th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which included various performances and featured a keynote address from Dr. Roy DeBerry ’70.
Prof. David Cunningham (SOC), who chairs the Sociology department, will leave the University after 16 years at the end of this academic year.
The world is now approaching the final chapter in the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings. Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old Chechen accused of planning and detonating two homemade pressure cooker bombs along with his deceased brother Tamerlan, entered court on Jan. 5 in a trial that will ultimately determine how he will live the rest of his life, however long it may be.
A Brandeis doctoral candidate in Computer Science was among the Black Lives Matter protesters arrested on Interstate 93 on Thursday.
We, as Brandeis students, may think of Waltham as the boring suburb of Boston where we are all forced to reside for four years. There are Pini’s Pizzeria and Baan Thai to keep us satisfied, but to most students, Waltham probably isn’t the University’s most enticing feature. But hidden on 144 Moody Street, there is a studio that looks like it has been transplanted out of Hollywood. The studio is where Sondra Celli, dress designer and star on TLC reality shows My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding, Gypsy Sisters and Bling It On, creates her masterpieces.
Due to a lack of cable and spare time, my budget for new television shows is relatively slim. However, I did find time to check out NBC’s newest comedy Bad Judge starring Kate Walsh as Rebecca Wright, a discombobulated and questionable criminal court judge. I am drawn to the show because Wright doesn’t care about the system or expectations—she does whatever she wants while still serving as an excellent judge. Her antics are amusing and liberating—the show proves that just because she does not behave like your stereotypical judge, does not mean she is bad at her job.
Student Union Vice President Sofía Mühlmann ’16 has resigned from her position after one semester of service.
Over winter break, Brandeis students responded to the recent controversy involving students Khadijah Lynch ’16 and Daniel Mael ’15 by engaging in a positivity campaign on social media titled “#BrandeisIsOurHouse." Well over a hundred students, alumni, parents, faculty and staff posted positive messages and stories about their Brandeis experiences on their Facebook and Twitter pages using the hashtag #BrandeisIsOurHouse as an identifier.
The men and women’s track and field squads continued their early-season meets at the Dartmouth Relays on Saturday, hosted by Dartmouth College.
From where Jianfeng Lin was born and raised, he could gaze across the six-mile wide Taiwan Strait and make out the skyline of Taipei, the capital of the sovereign Chinese territory and island Taiwan.
Schools such as Brown University or Bennington College champion the right of the student to design an individualized course of study within a strong advising network of faculty and student advisors. The Independent Interdisciplinary Major program at Brandeis aims to create an academic space for a similar type of individual creativity; however, this is a space which also must exist within the structure of a more academically traditional university.
On Nov. 24, a grand jury chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, sparking a new wave of protest nationwide. Protestors have blocked traffic on highways and tunnels in California and D.C., and lain down in the middle of malls and city streets at “die-ins” in Boston and St. Louis. They also staged a nationwide walkout of businesses and schools on Monday called Hands Up, Walk Out. Within Ferguson, the ruling led to both peaceful protests and riots, causing schools and businesses to close on Tuesday morning. The Ferguson Municipal Public Library remained open and hosted events for students in the area, inspiring over 7,000 people to donate to the library. How do you react to the grand jury’s ruling and the response nationwide?
On Aug. 9, in Feguson, Mo., 19-year-old Michael Brown was shot. At 11:54 a.m., he allegedly stole a few cigarillos from a liquor store, and walked a few blocks away with his friend Dorian Johnson until he was stopped by police officer Darren Wilson. Speaking through his window, Wilson told the two teenagers to move to the sidewalk, and saw that Brown fit the description of a suspect in an unrelated convenience store theft. Wilson positioned his vehicle to block Brown and Johnson from leaving, but after a brief altercation with Brown, the officer fired two shots from his weapon. One missed entirely, while the other grazed Brown’s thumb. Brown ran. Wilson pursued on foot. Suddenly the teenager stopped, turned and began to move toward the police officer. At this time, Wilson discharged 10 more bullets from his weapon, killing Michael Brown.
The lights went up on a restaurant scene. Using overly exaggerated, hilarious facial expressions, Yael Platt ’17 asked Michelle Wexler ’15, the annoyed hostess, if she could have a table for one. The audience began to laugh. Next, Dennis Hermida-Gonzalez ’16 walked into the resturant with a dog. Wexler asked him to leave the dog outside, but Hermida-Gonzalez replied that his dog was his “emotional support companion.” This same scenario went on, using other animals such as a gorilla and an elephant. At the end of the sketch, Deesha Patel ’16 walked in with Rodrigo Granados ’18. Wexler said that the restaurant didn’t allow any support animals anymore. To end the scene, Patel delivered punch line, “That’s my boyfriend.”
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The Intercultural Center hosted an event yesterday called “Ebola: It’s Our Crisis,” which focused on the recent epidemic in Western Africa. The speakers also looked at the social epidemic of stigmatizing those from the countries or continents with infected populations as automatically being infected by the virus as a result of being from a country afflicted by it.