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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.
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.
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.
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.
Former Brandeis Board of Trustees member Arthur Cohen passed away on Aug. 9 at his home in King’s Point, N.Y. Cohen served on the Board from 1973 to 1988, when he was named trustee emeritus.
University President Frederick Lawrence responded to the recent publication of controversial comments made by faculty members over a restricted email list, called the “Concerned” listserv. The emails sent to the listserv, which was created in 2003 as a private forum for professors to express their concerns surrounding the Iraq War, and has since evolved to bring attention to other issues in recent years, were exposed by Daniel Mael ’15.
This week, justArts spoke with Anneke Reich ’13, who is now working with Speak About It, a theatrical organization that deals with sexual consent awareness. Speak About It will also perform during First-year Orientation.
This summer, I was lucky enough to intern in Washington, D.C. for Rep. Anna G. Eshoo, my hometown representative from California’s Bay Area.
The University’s switch from Canon to Xerox Corporation as its provider for mail services, the Copy Center and student print solutions accrued backlash from the Brandeis community after longtime employees were terminated from Canon this spring and not automatically rehired by Xerox.
In the aftermath of the controversy surrounding the University’s severance of its educational partnership with Al-Quds University last November, several members of the Brandeis community took to pubic forums to express their discontent with how the situation unfolded—including a longtime member of the advisory board of Brandeis’ International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Michael Ratner ’66.
As the University enters a new academic year, dining services is continuing with a theme of change that began last year when Sodexo took over control from Aramark as dining services provider.
Provost Steve Goldstein ’78 will leave the University after this academic year and will facilitate in the hiring of a new provost. Goldstein will have served about four years at the University upon his departure.
Former Senior Vice President for Communications Ellen de Graffenreid’s last day at the University was Aug. 15, according to a July 24 email to Brandeis faculty from University President Frederick Lawrence. Her departure takes place about one-and-a-half years after her hire went into effect on Feb. 1, 2013. De Graffenreid has accepted the position of vice chancellor of marketing and communications at the University of Missouri.
This week, justArts spoke with Sabrina Dieudonne ’14 who created a memorial monument devoted to the Boston Marathon Bombing. The statue currently stands in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.
When I graduated from Brandeis in 1972, where I majored in Philosophy, I immediately knew that I owed Brandeis a great debt. And so, over the past two decades I have been, at times, an adjunct lecturer at the Brandeis International Business School, served on the Board of Trustees of IBS, and the Board of the University itself. With gratitude I have contributed significant sums to my alma mater, including a chair in financial markets and Institutions to IBS.
I recently stumbled across an article from The Princeton Tory (republished in Time Magazine) called “Why I’ll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege,” written by Princeton University freshman student Tal Fortgang. In it, Fortgang vehemently protests the idea that all of his success in life (including his admission to Princeton) can be credited to his race or sex, and offers instead that to call someone privileged “[assumes] they’ve benefitted from ‘power systems’ or other conspiratorial imaginary institutions [and] denies them credit for all they’ve done.”
When the chance to compete in a real-life consulting scenario involved in growing a Kenyan pig farm presented itself, business students from Brandeis and Babson College enthusiastically embraced the task. But the daunting nature of the problem quickly became evident: how can a group of university students in America devise a business model for farmers living thousands of miles away in a country most of them have never visited?
Various “challenges” have been circulating Facebook, including one for which I was recently nominated: list 10 books that have impacted me. Not much of a challenge, in my opinion, although choosing which books to include did take some serious consideration.
A New York Times/CBS News poll has found that President Obama’s approval ratings are similar to George W. Bush’s ratings in 2006. About 40% of Americans approve of the President and 50% disapprove, comparable to Bush’s 37% and 56% during his sixth year in office. While 70% of Americans disapprove of Congressional Republicans, 45% say they would vote for a Republican if the 2014 midterm elections were being held today, as opposed to 39% who say they’d vote for a Democrat. Do you approve of Obama, and do you plan to vote Democrat, Republican or neither in 2014?
On Sunday, the United Nations launched an ambitious new women’s rights campaign aimed at people that don’t care about women’s rights campaigns. Titled the “He for She” campaign, this multifaceted lobby hopes to frame women’s rights as an issue that equally affects both men and women, and one in which both sexes should be equally involved. It couldn’t be more timely or more accurate. The Women Against Feminism movement has been gaining traction in recent years, promoting its misconception of feminism as being anti-men and of self-described feminists as being entitled and whiny, blaming society for all of their personal problems. It’s more critical than ever that we understand that gender equality is, in the words of the He for She website, “not only a women’s issue, it is a human rights issue that requires [our] attention.”