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(10/21/14 12:50am)
Prof. Rani Neutill (ENG) was recently appointed the interim sexual assault services and prevention specialist, to take over the responsibilities of Shelia McMahon while McMahon is on leave. Her background in both rape counseling and in women and gender studies will inform her during her time in this position. She recently talked to the Justice regarding her new role, her research and the film class she is teaching this semester.
(10/14/14 5:48am)
Prof. Chris Miller (BCHM) might be a biologist by profession, but in a lecture he gave on March 3 2014 at Oxford University, he tackled a subject that he said, in the opening words of the presentation, he had wanted to study for years: scientific crackpots.
(10/14/14 4:56am)
Last Tuesday, Twitter, Inc. announced a lawsuit against the United States government, demanding the right to publicly disclose the extent of government surveillance on its user’s accounts. Twitter hopes for government statutes that prohibit the company from stating the extent of government court orders to be struck down as violations of the First Amendment. Other tech companies, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, have released their own transparency reports with government cooperation. Twitter is expected to win the case, but some question whether the lawsuit is being used as a public relations tactic to make users believe Twitter protects their privacy. Do you believe laws prohibiting public statements about government spying on social media websites are unconstitutional?
(10/13/14 9:02pm)
In his first season as a collegiate cross country runner, Ryan Stender ’18 has run three impressive races thus far. Stender has helped lead the Judges to two wins on the season, placing within the top-20 finishers in all three races and eclipsing the 27-minute mark in both eight-kilometer races in which he has participated.
(10/07/14 6:27am)
After three albums, The Script has become an established, radio-friendly Irish rock band. Their fourth effort, No Sound Without Silence, released last Tuesday, features their usual mix of rock, pop and rhythm and blues. The band continues their successful run with another album of energetic, stadium-worthy songs with earnest lyrics.
(10/07/14 5:45am)
This week, justArts spoke with Carol Eliel, the curator of the John Altoon exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also facilitated the curation of the John Altoon exhibit, which will open at the Rose Art Museum on Wednesday. Eliel will give a talk on Altoon following the opening of the exhibit.
(10/07/14 1:52am)
It was July 2014 in the North End of Boston when Ohad Elhelo ’16 received devastating news from his home country of Israel. During a secretive mission part of a military operation called Operation Protective Edge, 13 soldiers and officers from his former unit in the Israel Defense Forces died in an explosion on a road planted with mines.
(09/30/14 2:15pm)
In the age of British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem “The White Man’s Burden,” which starts with the lines, “Take up the White Man’s burden—/Send forth the best ye breed—/Go bind your sons to exile/To serve your captives’ need.” Whether you perceive this poem to be satirical or serious, the words echo true today, in a new guise. “White Savior” is a new term coined to describe the tendency for (primarily white) citizens of Western nations to believe they need to save the (primarily not white) citizens of third world countries.
(09/30/14 1:51am)
The women’s soccer team secured two wins this week against Bridgewater State University and University of Massachusetts Boston. The Judges traveled to Bridgewater State for Tuesday’s game and hosted UMass Boston on Saturday.
(09/30/14 1:48am)
Continuing its undefeated start to the season, the No. 9 men’s soccer team tallied off two more great wins this past week, with victories at Lasell College on Tuesday and at home against Clark University on Saturday evening. After escaping Lasell with a 1-0 victory last Tuesday, the Judges offense came back to life with a 4-0 hammering of Clark on Saturday.
(09/30/14 1:18am)
At the Rose Art Museum’s annual opening reception on Thursday, the unveiling of the museum’s newest attraction—a newly commissioned outdoor installation called the “Light of Reason”—was delayed by a group of student protesters.
(09/30/14 1:10am)
On Aug. 9, white police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Wilson allegedly acted in self-defense, though witness reports contain conflicting accounts of who was the aggressor. Since then, Ferguson residents have gathered in both peaceful and violent protest against the teenager’s killing and what residents call a long pattern of police harassment of the city’s African-American community. Police have responded by instituting curfews, arresting protestors and firing at crowds with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters. Media analysts have drawn parallels to the shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012. Do you see a trend of racial bias in law enforcement violence between these and other cases? If so, what can be done to end this trend?
(09/30/14 1:01am)
On Friday afternoon, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Eric Chasalow announced in a campus-wide email that Jessica Basile Ph.D. ’98 is now serving as the director of graduate student affairs and post-doctoral scholars.
(09/30/14 12:55am)
This week, justArts spoke with Charlie Madison ’15, who has written his own play, Lost Girls. Madison will direct the play which will be which will be performed by Brandeis Ensemble Theater in November.
(09/30/14 12:53am)
Last week, I was asked by the Justice to write a piece on the Palestine-Israel conflict. I said no. I was asked because the Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee was already due to submit a piece on the conflict, specifically focused on the war in Gaza this past summer, and the Justice wanted to showcase a “point/counter-point” section. Seems like a great idea, showcasing an important and complicated conflict, and allowing the reader to decide for themselves with whom they most agree. But still, I said no.
(09/30/14 12:52am)
Elections for the vacant positions on the Student Union and the Brandeis Sustainability Fund, as well as for the senior representative to the Board of Trustees, will be held on Thursday.
(09/30/14 12:51am)
Alex Thomson ’15 has vacated the position of senior representative to the Board of Trustees. The vacancy was corroborated in a Sept. 3 email to the Brandeis community from Student Union President Sneha Walia ’15, urging students who wanted to run for the position to attend a mandatory meeting on Sept. 3.
(09/30/14 12:50am)
Since arriving back on campus, students have encountered long lines for the mailroom, often waiting for over an hour to pick up their packages. These unusually long waits come in tandem with a transition in mailroom provider from Canon to Xerox Corporation.
(09/30/14 12:40am)
Students and faculty gathered at Chapels Pond on Thursday evening for “A Night of Remembrance and Response: Brandeis Vigil and Town Hall.” The vigil was held in remembrance of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, MO. and other victims of similar incidents.
(09/30/14 12:34am)
Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams began their season with strong races and earned team victories in the process. The women’s team, ranked 28th in the country, earned a victory in a matchup against the University of Southern Maine while the men’s team placed first out of seven teams in the Emmanuel College Fens Classic.
