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The men’s soccer team had a solid bounce-back week after dropping a gut-wrenching 1-0 match against longtime rival and defending national champion Tufts University last weekend.
According to a Sept. 13 article from CNN, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) proposed a new health care bill that would give Americans free access to doctor visits, hospital stays, reproductive care and other comprehensive health services. It would also eliminate premiums on private insurance, deductibles and copays; however, some may still have to pay up to $250 on prescription medication. The plan would cost nearly $1.4 trillion annually, resulting in a 2.2 percent tax increase on Americans. What do you think of Sanders's plan, and is it feasible?
To know the Brandeis University community is to know how passionate its students are about learning. Perhaps this trait is most visible in the wide variety of student-run clubs and organizations that collectively function to inform the public about the most pressing current issues. The newly-founded Brandeis Society for International Affairs seeks to find its place among the array of politically focused clubs on campus.
The men’s soccer team was back in action this past week, picking up two big wins against Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Elms College. While WPI put up a fight, the Judges steamrolled Elms College in an embarrassing 6-0 route. Since dropping their first match of the season, the squad has reeled off four straight victories. The team, now nationally ranked No. 20 in Division III, is doing good work in proving their pre-season No. 4 ranking was no fluke.
The Brandeis women’s volleyball team continued its dominant season as it was able to come back from a loss at the start of the week.
According to a recent study from Pew Research Center, 67 percent of Americans revealed that they get at least some of their news from social media. Of this 67 percent, 74 percent of individuals receive their news from Twitter — a value that has significantly increased since the election of President Donald Trump. In the era of "fake news," does there need to be more scrutiny on what news sources are trusted, or is social media just a convenient way to receive updates?
President Donald Trump announced last Tuesday his decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
In 2017, who is a person? Our online persona, rather than public records, define our identities, and the internet is an unregulated space where people falsify their identities for their own nefarious purposes. A Sept. 7 New York Times article exposed new details of the Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election — specifically, how Russians created several hundred inauthentic Facebook and Twitter accounts which “spread anti-Clinton messages and promoted the hacked material leaked.” These accounts posed as individuals and “friended” real people in hopes of influencing them with these shared posts. According to a Sept. 6 New York Times article, these fake accounts also purchased over $100,000 in ads targeting divisive social issues such as immigration and gay rights. They did all this under aliases such as “Melvin Redick,” which did not exist in the public records of their states.
From a young age, we are taught to trust people in positions of authority. However, there have been countless occasions in which the people that need help the most were only further hurt by those meant to help them. With the recent hurricanes plaguing the southern United States, I was reminded of those with more deadly outcomes. With the recent Hurricane Harvey, some hospitals had to be evacuated, yet the patients were well accounted for, according to an Aug. 30 Washington Post article. The same, however, cannot be said of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina.
In President Donald Trump’s more than 230 days in the White House, he has enacted policies with which I have aggressively disagreed; from its stance on the American Health Care Act to climate change, this administration has rolled back Obama-era policies that would have positively affected this nation in the long-term. However, there has been no policy as inhumane, unjust and unfair as Trump’s decision on Sept. 5 to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has shielded 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came here as children, from deportation, according to a Sept. 5 New York Times article. The program also enabled them, after strict background checks, to receive a two-year work authorization card that provided for thousands not only the ability to work but also the ability to apply for driver’s licenses and mortgages and, for many, the ability to purchase a car for the first time.
Brandeis has named the former Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston senior vice president of strategic development as its new lead fundraiser, according to a Sept. 7 email announcement from University President Ronald Liebowitz.
PERUSING PIECES: A visitor studies one of the smaller works exhibited at the Rose Art Museum.
LIGHT OF REASON: Two students have a snack by the Light of Reason during the Rose Art Museum open house.
VISUAL THINKING: Two visitors discuss one of the pieces from the Rose’s collection being exhibited.
Jasmine Purnell ’20 spoke about her transition to Brandeis in an interview with the Justice. As a child, Purnell lived in Chicago’s East Side with her mother. However, when her mother was diagnosed with cancer, they uprooted their lives to the city’s South Side in the Bronzeville area to live with Purnell’s grandmother. Purnell described her mother — who passed away when Purnell was 7 years old — as someone who was determined to provide her child with the best life and education possible. It was this drive that made her place Purnell in a private school early on.
RATINGS KING: Prof. Mike Coiner (ECON) knows he has a good reputation, but he stays away from the website Rate My Professor.
The men’s soccer team’s sole action of the week came Saturday in a cross-town rivalry showdown with Babson College. As usual, the rivalry match did not disappoint, as the Judges and Beavers went back and forth in what proved to be Brandeis’ most significant win of the young 2017 season. After dropping their season opener, the Judges seem to have regained their footing and are living up to their No. 4 ranking.
Both Brandeis cross country teams took the top spots in the season-opening Wellesley College Invitational on Friday Sept. 1.
The University updated its Rights and Responsibilities handbook prior to the academic year, making notable changes to the Special Examiner’s process and the procedure for the disruption of scheduled speakers or events.
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