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The University is in the beginning stages of developing its Request for Proposals for a new food services vendor and is seeking community feedback about its dining program.
Dr. John Paul Lederach received the 2019 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize on Oct. 30 and gave a lecture entitled “Dispatches from Nowhere Near the Promised Land: How a Peacebuilder Unlearned his Trade.”
In commemoration of Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom that devastated and drastically threatened the autonomy, security and freedom of German Jews on the night of Nov. 9, 1939, the Center for German and European Studies hosted a conversation on Nov. 4 with Dr. Hans Fisher, who at the age of 11 was a passenger and survivor of the SS St. Louis.
Sivan Shtang (Ph.D.) presented a lecture on the use of cleaning and cleanliness as a symbol of oppression in Mizrahi contemporary art on Tuesday as part of the University’s Hebrew Language and Arts Week.
The Student Union Senate held a short meeting on Sunday, where they discussed the upcoming special election, talked about Student Union President Simran Tatuskar’s ’21 public apology for the recent Judiciary case and voted on a new amendment about Senate committee requirements.
Waltham elections will be held today, according to an Oct. 31 Patch Waltham article.
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Prof. David Weil, dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, testified on Oct. 23 before the United States House of Representatives in a joint subcommittee hearing on “The Future of Work: Preserving Worker Protections in the Modern Economy.”
Charles River Senator Oliver Price ’20 is working on an amendment to the Union Constitution to pay certain members of secured clubs. Price said he hopes the Senate will vote on the amendment in February so that secured clubs would have the rest of the spring semester to become wage-eligible.
The Student Union and rideshare giant Lyft are partnering to subsidize late-night rides this week for students as part of a plan to educate on safe rideshare habits and eliminate critical gaps in transportation that often compromise student safety, Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 announced in an email to the Brandeis community last Tuesday.
Two students at the Christa McAuliffe Charter School in Framingham, MA recently created a Snapchat group named “Kill the jews,” according to an Oct. 16 Boston Globe article.
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Dr. Gwendolyn Mink and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California Irvine, delivered the 15th annual Eleanor Roosevelt lecture, entitled “First Woman of Color in Congress: Patsy Takemoto Mink’s Feminist Politics.”
Steven Simon, a National Security Council director for the Middle East and North Africa during the Clinton and Obama administrations, gave a lecture called “The US and the Middle East in the Age of Trump” on Wednesday. In this lecture, Simon argued that President Donald Trump’s policy toward the Middle East reflects a deeper trend of disengagement that began under President Obama.
Waltham Group will not run shuttles to Logan International Airport this Thanksgiving, as they have in previous years, due to short staffing, and past traffic and weather-related issues that have led to a number of students almost missing their flights, wrote Director of the Department of Community Service Lucas Malo in an email to the Justice on Monday.
The Environmental Studies Program hosted a talk last Tuesday with Deputy Director of the New England Forestry Foundation Frank Lowenstein as well as Boston-based conservation consultant Henry Tepper to discuss how land trusts can be used to address climate change. A land trust is a nonprofit organization that works to conserve the land through “acquiring land or conservation easements (or assisting with their acquisition) and/or stewarding/managing land or conservation easements,” per the Land Trust Alliance website.
Institutions with large endowments should give back the donations they received from the Sackler family due to their substantial role in causing the opioid epidemic, according to Prof. Andrew Kolodny (Heller), who was an expert witness in the recent Johnson & Johnson court trial. In an interview with the Justice, he discussed the Sackler family’s role in the United States opioid crisis and their heavy involvement in funding various cultural and educational institutions. He detailed how the Sacklers, owners of Purdue Pharma, became so powerful in the United States and what this means for Brandeis students.
Student Union Vice President Guillermo Caballero ’20 resigned from his position at Sunday’s Senate meeting, effective today at 4 p.m. He cited alleged exclusivity within the Union and conflicts with Union leadership as reason for his resignation.
University President Ron Liebowitz announced in a community-wide email on Thursday that his $84.7 million “Springboard Funding Plan” is ready to go into effect. The proposal, originally valued at approximately $73 million, will “address gaps in University operations that must be filled before pursuing a major capital campaign,” according to a Jan. 22 Justice article.
Morton L. Mandel P’73, H’89, the chairman and CEO of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation and a major donor to the University, died at the age of 98 on Oct. 16.