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Student Union Director of Outreach Kendal Chapman ’22 won the special election for Union vice president with 120 votes, Union Secretary Taylor Fu wrote in an email to the Justice on Sunday.
The University administration made changes to the student handbook this semester to mandate the administration’s prior approval of protest demonstrations by student groups. The changes to Section 7.1 of the Student Rights and Responsibilities handbook makes campus demonstrations more difficult, according to a student activist group that spoke with the Justice. The language in 7.1 is identical to a section in the Princeton University handbook, but Brandeis applies it differently.
The 2019 Campus Climate survey found that students with marginalized identities reported experiences with sexual violence and misconduct at higher rates than their peers. The report details students’ experiences with and attitudes toward sexual misconduct, reporting procedures and prevention resources on campus.
Prof. Susan Eaton (Heller) spoke on Thursday about her research on efforts to promote racial and ethnic equity and inclusion in U.S. K-12 schools in a keynote lecture entitled “Getting to ‘We’: Educators as a Counterforce to Othering in a Polarized Nation.”
The Goldfarb Library celebrated its 60th anniversary on Nov. 12. Library staff held an event that day in its honor that included speeches, a display of photographs of the library’s history, singing “Happy Birthday” and a birthday cake.
The elections for Waltham mayor and city councilors took place on Nov. 5 and featured several close races and upsets of longtime incumbent councilors.
At its Sunday meeting, the Senate passed a Senate Money Resolution to fund Midnight Buffet, brought up concerns regarding students getting sick in Deroy Residence Hall and discussed Student Union President Simran Tatuskar’s ’21 apologies to the Brandeis community and Union members.
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Student Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 apologized for her role in breaking down communication within the Union in an email to the Brandeis community on Friday. “I apologize for the role that I played in perpetuating this cycle and want to make it clear that my focus moving forward within the parameters of my role is to ensure that these lines are strengthened via internal restructuring and overall policy changes,” she wrote.
Prof. Paul Miller (BIOL) and Prof. Sabine von Mering (GES, WGSS) sat down with moderator Prof. Charles Chester (ENVS) on Nov. 5 for an event titled, “Fiddling While Rome Burns: Understanding Humankind’s Response to Climate Change.” The event was offered as a part of Brandeis’ Critical Conversations. Miller, a scientist, and von Mering, an activist, shared how their different backgrounds have shaped their ideas of what is most important in the scramble to combat climate change.
City University of New York Professor of Anthropology Katherine Verdery gave a talk on Friday about her discovery of a Romanian secret police case file about her years of anthropological fieldwork in 1970s Romania. She has written about these experiences in a recent book titled “My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File.”
Women’s Studies Research Center Scholar Dr. Phoebe K. Schnitzer and her research assistant Makayla Richards ’20, delivered a presentation on Thursday about the state of sex education in the United States.
Course registration for the spring 2020 semester reopened on Thursday, almost a month earlier than originally planned, University Registrar Mark Hewitt announced in a Nov. 6 email to Brandeis students. Course registration was initially set to reopen on Dec. 4, Hewitt explained in a Nov. 8 interview with the Justice.
A study by Brandeis researchers showing a link between light exercise and better sleep was published in last month’s issue of “Sleep Journal,” which is published by the National Sleep Foundation. The study, “Walk to a better night of sleep: testing the relationship between physical activity and sleep,” found that participants who were more physically active had better sleep quality, but not more sleep overall.
Brandeis Young Americans for Liberty and the Brandeis Korean Students Association hosted 26-year-old North Korean defector and human rights advocate Yeonmi Park for a talk on Wednesday about her escape from North Korea and the difficulties of fighting for freedom under the country’s dictatorship.
An amendment to the Union Constitution proposed by Charles River Senator Oliver Price ’20 would, if passed, allow certain members of secured clubs to become wage-eligible. The Constitution defines the Campus Activities Board as one such secured club. The others are WBRS 100.1 FM, BEMCo, Waltham Group, Brandeis Television, Archon Yearbook, Student Sexuality Information Service, the Justice, and the Brandeis Sustainability Fund. Of these clubs, however, only CAB’s Executive Board members are already receiving monetary compensation.
Union Director of Outreach Kendal Chapman ’22 is the sole candidate running for Student Union vice president in the upcoming special election. She said in an interview with the Justice on Thursday that she hopes to change the Union’s direction by creating more lines of communication and making the responsibilities of Union officers more clear.
The Department of Community Living is currently working to improve its Health and Safety Inspections process and has assembled a working group for input on the subject, according to a Sept. 18 email to the Brandeis community from DCL requesting volunteers for the group.
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.”