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Several Renfield Hall residents discovered they had head lice on Sept. 28. By the next day, eight students from the building had contracted lice, which prompted the lengthy process of delousing and sanitizing dorm rooms with the help of the Department of Facilities Services, a Renfield resident told the Justice.
After a contentious hearing last Tuesday night, the Union Judiciary ruled against Student Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21, finding that she failed to communicate effectively across Union branches and unconstitutionally sidestepped the vice president and executive senator in deciding the role of the executive senator, according to the Judiciary’s formal opinion, which was released on Friday.
At its weekly meeting Monday, the Student Union Senate discussed committee chair reports, and Class of 2020 Senator Scott Halper introduced a resolution prepared by the Rules Committee detailing a course of action in response to the recent Judiciary case against Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21. Executive Senator Jake Rong ’21 presided over Sunday’s meeting because Union Vice President Guillermo Caballero ’20 was not on campus.
The Center for German and European Studies hosted “Neighbors through Time: Lippehner 35 — the Forgotten History of a Berlin House” on Oct. 15 in the Napoli Room in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Prof. Sabine von Mering (GRALL, WGS, ENVS) hosted the event after reading about a memorial service in Berlin in the Wayland Town Crier, a local newspaper about seven miles west of Waltham.
The Center for Global Development and Sustainability at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management hosted the inaugural event for J-CASTE, a new peer-reviewed “Global Journal on Social Exclusion,” on Tuesday evening.
The Waltham City Council will officially consider the matter of the possible purchase of a University of Massachusetts property on Beaver Street, which includes the Waltham Field Station and historic farmland, according to an Oct. 19 Patch Waltham article.
Sixteen incoming graduate students at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and the International Business School were denied visas, Provost Lisa Lynch announced during a recent faculty meeting. All 16 students were from countries in Africa, including Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia, according to Lynch.
In order to help community members evaluate gender equity in the Brandeis Athletics Department, Director of Athletics Lauren Haynie released the 2018-2019 Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act report in an Oct. 15 email to students, faculty and staff. The report includes information about participation in athletics programs, coaches’ genders and salaries, recruiting expenses and overall expenses and revenue, all broken down by men’s and women’s teams.
Prof. Robin A. Robinson PhD ’91, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, shared excerpts from her unfinished novel about young English women criminals subjected to the transatlantic convict trade, as well as her research on trafficked women in colonial America, at the WSRC on Tuesday.
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Student Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 is the subject of an open formal Judiciary complaint regarding the duties of the Executive Senator and alleged violations of multiple parts of the Union Constitution, Bylaws and Code of Conduct concerning communications with other Union members, according to multiple sources familiar with the complaint.
Outside the Student Union office.
At its weekly meeting Sunday, the Senate discussed a complaint against Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 that will be heard by the Judiciary Committee, how Friday’s Pride Deis event went and updates to last year’s initiative to place free menstrual products in bathrooms across campus.
The Office of Human Resources will be implementing three new policies as of Jan. 1, 2020, according to a Sept. 26 inBrief email. The policies, which establish flexible staff schedules, a reward system and a new child care systems, keep with a central HR priority to “make Brandeis a great place to work,” per the same email.
In an Oct. 8 email to the community, University President Ron Liebowitz stated that, alongside 164 other universities and colleges in the United States, Brandeis has filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He explained that DACA “provides work permits and protection from deportation to nearly 700,000 undocumented people … who were brought to the U.S. as children.”
Public Safety’s annual fire safety and security report, which spans the last three years and includes statistics about crime and fire rates on campus, shows an overall decrease in crime and an increase in fire incidents.
At the second faculty meeting of the year, Brandeis faculty discussed the University’s drop in the U.S. News & World Report rankings and how the University can work to better integrate academic and social life.
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Shivani Patel, former executive assistant of a Waltham-based technology company, will plead guilty to charges that placed her in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that made over $3 million, according to the District of Massachusetts Attorney’s Office. The Martha’s Vineyard Times reported that the name of the specific Waltham company for which Patel worked had not been released.
The Institute on Assets and Social Policy, a research institute that is part of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, released a study on Sept. 25 about the disproportionate impact of student debt on students of color.