Disability rights activist speaks at Brandeis
Advocate for disability rights Judy Heumann spoke about the importance of integrating disability into education and improving accessibility to a packed hall of students and others working in the field of accessibility on Thursday night. Heumann, who is in a wheelchair due to having polio as a child, has served in both the Clinton and […]
PARC asks students to fill out sexual and relationship violence survey
Brandeis students opened their email accounts to find a campus climate survey on sexual and relationship violence on Tuesday morning. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Division of Student Affairs, the survey aims to gather students’ responses to sexual violence in the Brandeis community. The survey is similar to a 2015 survey […]
Hortense Spillers ’74 PhD receives alumni achievement award
Provost Lisa Lynch presented the Alumni Achievement Award to Hortense Spillers ’74 Ph.D. for her work as a literary critic, black feminist scholar and pioneer in the development of African American Studies. Spillers, who is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, spoke about how black studies as a field was not […]
Angela Davis ’65 visits Brandeis to celebrate AAAS 50th anniversary
Angela Davis ’65 spoke about her childhood experience at Brandeis as an undergraduate and subsequent years as an activist, communist figure, Black Panther Party member and professor, for the 50th anniversary of the African and African American Studies (AAAS) Department on Feb. 8. Davis began by describing her life as one full of controversy in […]
Panelists question how far university has come since Ford Hall 1969
Alumni who led the Ford Hall 1969 protests that established the department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) gathered to celebrate its 50th anniversary on Feb. 8. But some of the panelists expressed the feeling that Brandeis hasn’t done enough since the protest in 1969. “The question I keep wondering is has the university […]
Thirteen announce candidacy for special elections
The Student Union is holding Special Elections to fill five empty seats in the Senate and two empty seats in the Union Judiciary. Interested candidates gathered at the Student Union Office to learn more about the positions on Thursday evening. Elections will be held next Thursday, March 7, from midnight to 11:59 pm. Campaigning began […]
President Liebowitz reports on January Board of Trustees meeting
President Ron Liebowitz released a report on Monday of the most recent Board of Trustees meeting, where the Board discussed university task forces to address maintenance and accessibility on campus, the new Springboard Funding Plan, the new General Education requirements, university response to U.S. Department of Education proposed changes to Title IX and the promotion […]
Judiciary hearing rescheduled for a second time
The Judiciary hearing has been rescheduled for a second time due to cancellations from the Executive Board (E-Board) Party, according to Chief Justice Morris Nadjar ’19. The new date for the hearing has not been set but will be after the Brandeis February break. The hearing was originally set for Sunday, Jan. 27 but had […]
Class of 2022 senator resigns
Class of 2022 Senator Alex Chang ’22 resigned after delivering a speech to 12 senators at the weekly Senate meeting on Sunday. In his remarks, he blamed the atmosphere of the Student Union for his departure. Chang emphasized that his decision was a result of the recall of former International Student Senator Linfei Yang ’20, […]
Judiciary Case to be heard Sunday
The Judiciary will hear representatives from the Allocations Board (A-Board) and the Executive Board (E-Board) on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. in a case that will decide whether the Student Union is a club and, as a result, whether or not the Allocations Board has jurisdiction over Student Union funding. The hearing is open […]
Branchan creator adds rules to the site
After Alex Chang ’22 created the site “Branchan” at the Fall 2018 Codestallation, he forgot about it. “It was only a few hours that I was working on it that I just put it together and then I presented it. And then I didn’t really win anything, and then I just sort of forgot about […]
South Street crossing-light pole knocked down
The crossing-light pole in front of the entrance to Linsey Pool was knocked down by a vehicle traveling on South Street the evening of Friday, Jan. 18, according to an email released to the Brandeis community by Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan on Jan. 23, five days after the incident. Both crossing lights have […]
Menstrual products placed in eight bathrooms on campus
Brandeis facilities has placed menstrual products, including tampons and pads, in eight bathrooms around the Brandeis campus as part of the Student Union menstrual products initiative. The initiative was spearheaded by the Union Campus Operations Working Group (COW-G) and the Health and Safety committee. The project is being funded and stocked through Facilities Services, rather […]
Judiciary case to decide A-board jurisdiction over union
A Student Union Judiciary case will decide whether or not the Student Union is a club, and as a result, whether or not the Allocations Board has jurisdiction over Student Union funding. The case was filed by Student Union President Hannah Brown ’19, Chief of Staff Emma Russell, and Vice President Aaron Finkel ’20 on […]
Univ. speaks out on proposed Title IX changes
Brandeis joined the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) in submitting a public comment against the proposed changes in Title IX rules to the Department of Education. President Ron Liebowitz announced the decision, criticizing the overly prescriptive and “one size fits all” proposed model in an email to the Brandeis community on […]
Schuster Institute shuts down
After nearly 15 years of non-profit investigative journalism, the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism shut down last month. Founded in 2004, the institute was the country’s first investigative reporting center based at a university. The institute had been experiencing financial difficulties for the last two and a half years, according to Provost Lisa Lynch’s announcement […]
Found in translation: Homecoming hits its stride in television
The podcast “Homecoming” opens mysteriously. A discordant tune plays muffled on the piano, followed by the entrance of the voices of the two protagonists of the show, therapist Heidi Bergman and army veteran, Walter Cruz. The television show of the same name follows the podcast’s opening scene almost exactly, even paraphrasing the opening dialogue about […]
Brandeis Library acquires unreleased Lenny Bruce film
American comic Lenny Bruce plays a down-on-his-luck newspaper salesman in an original, unreleased silent short film now available for viewing through the Brandeis Library’s Archives and Special Collections Department. The twelve-and-a-half-minute film was added to the Lenny Bruce collection, which contains photographs, correspondence and audio recordings of his comedy performances. The film shows Bruce’s character […]
Brandeis Counseling Center experiences 120 percent increase in hospitalizations
The Brandeis Counseling Center (BCC) experienced a 120 percent increase in student hospitalizations in 2018 as compared to 2017, according to BCC Director Joy von Steiger. This increase is part of a general rise in student requests for the BCC’s services. The BCC has also seen an 84 percent increase in initial assessments and a […]
Brandeis ‘springboard funding’ plan to pay for projects, maintenance
Brandeis will increase its endowment spending from 5.7 percent to 6.2 percent each year to partially fund a $73 million “springboard funding” plan to pay for operational costs and capital projects, according to an email announcement by President Ron Liebowitz. The Board of Trustees approved the possible endowment spending increase although, prior to the announcement, […]
