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In a joint effort to reduce single-use plastic on campus, the Office of Sustainability and Sodexo announced that following February break, single-use straws will only be given out by request, according to the Office of Sustainability’s website.
The races for Community Senator and International Senator will be decided in a special election that will take place on Thursday. The Justice attended the “Meet the Candidates” event on Monday and interviewed prospective senators about their goals if elected.
In an email to the Brandeis community on Sunday, Provost Lisa Lynch updated community members as to how Brandeis is responding to the Coronavirus outbreak. Lynch stated that the updates have resulted in Brandeis “restricting all Brandeis students, faculty, and staff from traveling to China on official University business, effective immediately.” Lynch also said that the University will continue to monitor statements from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “with the intention of removing restrictions as soon as it is deemed safe to do so.”
Medical Emergency
At the Senate’s weekly meeting on Sunday, Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 presented a series of ongoing Executive Board projects, but was met with backlash from senators who were engaged in similar projects and accused her of poor communication.
The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and the Women of Color Alliance co-hosted a discussion titled “The Power of Protest: Protesting at Brandeis University” at the Shapiro Campus Center on Monday.
Former president of Tufts University John DiBiaggio has died, according to a Feb. 8 Boston Globe article.
An accident during repairs to a broken water main by Pearlman Hall on Jan. 28 damaged a nearby control valve and caused water to leak onto the surrounding sidewalk, Vice President of Campus Operations Lois Stanley told the Justice in an email on Wednesday.
The Student Union announced the results of the 2020 winter elections on Friday. The student body elected six new senators, along with five new members of the Allocations Board and one new member of the Judiciary, per an email to the community from Union Secretary Taylor Fu ’21.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Union Chief of Staff and Union Representative for the Community Emergency and Enhancement Fund Zac Wilkes ’20 discussed upcoming goals for CEEF and a new student newsletter project at Sunday’s Senate meeting. The Union then voted on a new Amendment to Article V of the Student Union bylaws defining quorum, and Class of 2022 Senator Joseph Coles proposed changes to Student Union Club bylaws.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is planning to install commuter rail fare gates in three of its most popular stations — North Station, South Station and Back Bay — according to a Dec. 15 Boston Globe article.
Thirty-seven miles west of Krakow near the former German-Polish border, on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, the largest death camp established by Nazi Germany. Seventy-five years later, people around the globe still remember that day.
The water main serving the Usdan Student Center, Pearlman and Goldfarb and Farber Libraries broke on the morning of Jan. 27, damaging the surrounding sidewalk but leaving other Brandeis facilities untouched, according to a Thursday email to the Justice from Vice President of Campus Operations Lois Stanley.
A Jan. 22 report by the Heller School for Social Policy and Management found that neighborhoods affect children’s health and development, including their education, expectations for the future and quality of experiences. The study, titled “The Geography of Child Opportunity: Why Neighborhoods Matter for Equity," was conducted by Heller’s Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy. The study quantifies opportunity levels for children across the United States and examines how a child’s neighborhood affects his or her future. The report was authored by the institute's and project's director Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Research Director Clemens Noelke and Senior Research Analyst Nancy McArdle.
The Golding Health Center is monitoring the coronavirus and communicating with emergency response, public health and other college health networks nearby, according to Administrative Director Diana Denning.
Trump’s “toddler-like” behavior poses a threat to society during a time when presidential power is less constrained than ever before, according to author Daniel Drezner.
On Thursday night, two Israeli scholars presented their research and two members of the Brandeis community shared their perspectives on American and Israeli Jewish feminism at an event hosted by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. The event, “Jewish Women and Religious Change in Israel and the United States: Divergence and Dialogue,” was followed by a panel discussion with the audience.
One hundred years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, members of the Brandeis community came together to learn about women’s suffrage: how it was achieved, who it left out and how the fight is still being fought today. This event was held at the Women’s Studies Research Center’s “Womanhood Suffrage Teach-In: 72 Years in 72 Minutes” on Thursday.
In the Student Union’s winter elections, 24 candidates will be competing for 12 seats on the Union Judiciary, Allocations Board and Senate. The Justice attended the Union’s “Meet the Candidates” forum on Monday and asked candidates about their goals if elected to their desired positions.