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CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion (J-CASTE), an open-access journal developed by Laurence Simon, Professor of International Development and Director of the Center for Global Development (Heller), will join the JSTOR Archive following the publication of its upcoming fall issue.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
At the Oct. 24 meeting of the Student Union Senate, senators voted to give probationary status to the Network of Arab Students and the Fireside Theater Company and changed the constitution of the Brandeis Association of Pre-Med Students.
The Justice Resource Institute, in partnership with the Waltham Alliance for Teaching, Community Organizing and Housing, held a mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Saturday, Oct. 23 at the WATCH office on Crescent Street. WATCH CDC, Waltham’s Community Development Corporation, facilitates events surrounding affordable housing, adult education and leadership development. The vaccine clinic did not require documents or pre-registration for a vaccine, allowing it to be accessible to a large number of community members. The vaccine provided was Johnson & Johnson, and participants could enter to win an assortment of prizes.
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 Waltham Public Library will host a series of Halloween-themed events geared toward families within the community. The event organizers plan to hold a festive concert on Sunday, Oct. 24 on the front lawn of the Francis Buttrick Library located on Main Street. The concert will feature performances by the Toe Jam Puppet Band. According to the information provided on the library event calendar, the band will perform at 1:30 p.m. and at 3:30 p.m. Attendees are encouraged to come in costumes. The event is supported by funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council administered by the Waltham Cultural Council.
The agenda of the Oct. 17 meeting of the Student Union Senate announced, among other business items, the impeachment trial of Secretary James Feng ’22.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Throughout the U.S., cases of domestic violence have increased across genders and sexual orientations, and within LGBTQIA+ communities they remain a particular threat. In addition to physical and verbal abuse, LGBTQIA+ survivors of domestic violence often face threats of being ‘outed,’ having increased economic and housing risks as a result of domestic violence and other unique challenges.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 regulations at the University, the annual Brandeis Family Weekend was cancelled during the fall 2020 semester. Fortunately, the University hosted students' parents and families for a weekend of on-campus activities this year.
On Oct. 12, the University held the 49th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award ceremony virtually, honoring Dr. David Julius and Dr. Ardem Patapoutian “for their remarkable contributions to our understanding of the sensations of temperature, pain and touch.”
In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, Brandeis hosted public speaker and activist Chadra Pittman, who gave a talk titled ‘I, Too, Am America’: Stolen Land, Stolen People and the Forced Migrations of the Native & the African.' The talk focused on the history of the oppression, displacement and dehumanization of the Indigenous and African people in America’s past, discussing each of them on their own as well as drawing connections between the two histories.
Approaching fall and winter seasons, the University held multiple flu clinics in preparation for flu season. The Health Center website says that “flu season starts in the fall and usually peaks in January or February.” The University has been holding flu clinics for the Brandeis community for many years, including last year’s open walk-in flu clinic during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When summer internships were cancelled at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brandeis’s Prevention, Advocacy & Research Center offered its peer advocates the opportunity to intern with the organization for the summer. Eva Bohn ’22 and Sarah Baum ‘22 participated in the summer 2020 internship program, bringing what she learned with they into them academic year.
Over the last few years, the Gender and Sexuality Center at Brandeis has hired new staff and student leaders, created new programs for students and is working towards establishing a strong program with a multitude of opportunities and resources for students. In honor of LGBTQIA+ Month, the Justice spoke with the new inaugural director of the Gender and Sexuality Center, Julian Cancino, as well as two student Pride Reps, Tanner Eustace ’24 and Kyla-Yen Giffin ’23.
Author Torrey Peters spoke at Brandeis in the latest installment of the Creative Writing Department’s Brandeis Readings on Wednesday, Oct. 6. Moderators of the Zoom event included co-director of the Creative Writing Program Professor Stephen McCauley, Brandeis Ph.D. candidate Holly Robbins and Creative Writing co-director, author and English Professor Elizabeth Bradfield. Peters’ new, acclaimed novel “Detransition, Baby” served as the focus of the conversation and reading.
After the Student Union Senate voted not to charter the MAD Band on Oct. 3, the group returned to speak to the Senate on Oct. 10 to make its case yet again.
The Waltham High School Class of 2022 celebrated their senior year with a Homecoming Parade throughout the town on Saturday, Oct. 9. According to the posts on the Waltham city website, the route began in the Kennedy Middle School parking lot and led to Leary Field. Students filed through the town until the kick-off of the varsity football game against Cambridge at 1 p.m.
Oct. 11, 2021 marks Indigenous Peoples Day, a time when many recognize and honor the history, heritage and experiences of Indigenous and Native American populations. As early as 1990 and in recognition of the past and ongoing genocide experienced by these communities at the hands of colonists such as Christopher Columbus and other non-Indigenous populations, Indigenous activists around the world have been pressing states and countries to adopt the commemoration’s title change in honor of these communities and the realities of their lived experiences. To this day, 36 U.S. states still do not recognize Indigenous Peoples Day as an official holiday, including Massachusetts.