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The start of the new semester brought a new round of Student Union elections. On Jan. 25, students voted for five Union Senate seats, four Allocations Board seats and one junior representative seat to the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
The Brandeis Food Pantry, recently renamed Food and Resources for Equitable and Sustainable Health, has become an essential part of the Brandeis community over the last two years. FRESH aims to supply undergraduate and graduate students with non-perishable and fresh food products, toiletry and hygiene items, as well as clothing and kitchen supplies.
The fall 2020 semester at Brandeis was unlike any other due to the COVID-19 pandemic and shift to partially remote learning. This new form of learning had many successes, but it also created some frustrations for students. In December, Jonathan Joasil ’22 and other students wrote an email to then-provost Lisa Lynch detailing their frustrations about the fall semester and provided suggestions for spring 2021. Later in December, Lynch emailed the Brandeis community about changes to the spring semester schedule, including additional break days.
Brandeis University is keeping the community informed about its COVID-19 statistics through an online dashboard. This dashboard contains information about how many tests were collected, how many individuals were tested, how many individuals tested positive, how many students are in quarantine, how many students are in isolation and the seven-day average for positive tests on campus. The dashboard also includes various statistics about areas in Massachusetts. The Justice will produce infographics each week, visually displaying the information that the University releases online.
Brandeis University is keeping the community informed about its COVID-19 statistics through an online dashboard. This dashboard contains information about how many tests were collected, how many individuals were tested, how many individuals tested positive, how many students are in quarantine, how many students are in isolation and the seven-day average for positive tests on campus. The dashboard also includes various statistics about areas in Massachusetts. The Justice will produce infographics each week, visually displaying the information that the University releases online.
The University and the United States at large experienced a racial reckoning this summer. The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on Black and Brown communities in particular highlighted the ways that the American healthcare system was built to serve primarily white people and how other communities have been marginalized in terms of medical access. People of color with disabilities have especially faced roadblocks over the years.
Following the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the mainstream this past May, the University made a commitment to address systemic racism on campus. After various announcements related to anti-racism, Zoom meetings with community members and guidance from the student organizers of the Black Action Plan, the University released a draft of its anti-racism plan in an email on Nov. 10. President Ron Liebowitz and Vice President for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Mark Brimhall-Vargas discussed the draft plan in a Nov. 10 joint interview with the Justice and The Brandeis Hoot.
When Bakari Sellers won the South Carolina Senate race of 2006, he made history for being the youngest Black elected official in the country, according to the Boston-Wide Israel Speakers Series page on Facebook. Since leaving office in 2014, Sellers has become a New York Times bestselling author, makes regular appearances on CNN and is the host of The Bakari Sellers Podcast. The Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Boston-Wide Israel Speaker Series hosted “A Conversation with Bakari Sellers” on Sunday, Nov. 15.
For the first time this semester, the Union Senate voted against the creation of a new club at their Nov. 15 meeting. The Senate also voted to approve seven other clubs and to dissolve a probationary club whose executive board members had not responded to emails from the Senate Club Support Committee.
Senior Vice President of Communications, Marketing and External Relations Dan Kim updated the Brandeis community on fall 2020 move-out procedures in a Nov. 13 email. To limit the potential spread of COVID-19, anyone picking up a student to move out must fill out the Daily Health Assessment and remain in their vehicle while on campus. Drivers can wait in their vehicles in a legal parking spot near the student’s residential building.
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Angelika Bammer, an author and professor of comparative literature at Emory University, spoke virtually to the Brandeis community on Nov. 12 about her newly published book, “Born After: Reckoning with the German Past.” Bammer’s book recounts her family’s history in Nazi-era Germany, as well as her own thoughts as she grappled with processing this controversial past.
Brandeis hosted authors Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy to talk about a new book they co-authored, “Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People,” in a virtual event on Monday, Nov. 9. In the book, Sharansky and Troy explore Sharansky’s extraordinary journey from being a dissident and a prisoner in a Soviet gulag to a public figure and leading activist in the Israeli political sphere. University President Ron Liebowitz, Prof. Jonathan Sarna (NEJS), Prof. Shirley Idelson (DEPT) and Associate Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Dr. Shayna Weiss joined the event and participated in the conversation with Sharansky and Troy.
On Saturday Nov. 7, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States. After a tumultuous election season, Biden beat lame-duck President Donald J. Trump with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 electoral votes. Biden’s win is largely attributed to support in swing states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Biden’s win also marks a historical moment for California Sen. Kamala Harris, who is the first Black and South Asian woman to be elected vice president of the United States. What was your reaction to the Biden-Harris win? What do you think should be the top priorities for the new administration? Also, what do you anticipate as the biggest resistance to the new administration?
Brandeis University is keeping the community informed about its COVID-19 statistics through an online dashboard. This dashboard contains information about how many tests were collected, how many individuals were tested, how many individuals tested positive, how many students are in quarantine, how many students are in isolation and the seven-day average for positive tests on campus. The dashboard also includes various statistics about areas in Massachusetts. The Justice will produce infographics each week, visually displaying the information that the University releases online.
The Union Senate finalized more details on this year’s Midnight Buffet and updated information regarding new stickers for the condom dispensers at its Nov. 8 meeting.
Changes to gathering guidelines on campus
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Poets Javier Zamora and Sean Hill shared and discussed their poetry at a virtual event sponsored by the English Department on Nov. 4, titled “Javier Zamor and Sean Hill: Poets Engaging Travel and Race.”
Brandeis University is keeping the community informed about its COVID-19 statistics through an online dashboard. This dashboard contains information about how many tests were collected, how many individuals were tested, how many individuals tested positive, how many students are in quarantine, how many students are in isolation and the seven-day average for positive tests on campus. The dashboard also includes various statistics about areas in Massachusetts. The Justice will produce infographics each week, visually displaying the information that the University releases online.