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(10/09/18 10:00am)
With the words “I remember…” magnified on an otherwise blank slide behind her, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum asked the audience of faculty members before her to take a moment to think about their earliest race-related moment. When she asked at what age these memories occurred, many faculty members shouted out, “five.” She then asked them to raise their hands if they had any recollection of having a conversation about these moments with an adult. Only a few hands went up.
(10/09/18 10:00am)
RACE BARRIER: Dr. Tatum asks the question: How do we get students from various backrounds to talk about race relations?
(10/09/18 10:00am)
HAPPY MEMORIES: Marci McPhee’s father, Bunnie E. Gregory attended Middlesex College of Medicine and Surgery. McPhee recalls her father enjoying returning to campus to visit her and see the old buildings.
(10/09/18 4:50pm)
HER LEGACY: Marci McPhee (left) and Lyn Gregory wear ’DEIS Impact shirts celebrating the festival of social justice McPhee championed at Brandeis.
(10/02/18 10:00am)
The story of trivia begins in the Ancient World. Trivia, meaning “unimportant matters,” derived as a back-formation of trivialis, which meant “found everywhere, commonplace” or “vulgar.” An online column from Merriam-Webster, shedding light on the etymology of trivia, noted that the term — and the titular game — “sometimes gets a bad rap” because of a related word, trivial, meaning “of little worth or importance.” When used in a singular construction, it means “a quizzing game involving obscure facts.” The lay meaning of the trivia, according to Merriam-Webster, is “obscure facts and details that aren’t applicable to one’s day-to-day life.”
(10/02/18 10:00am)
NOTHING BUT THE FACTS: Faiyaz Rahman ’20 says that being smart is a big advantage on Trivia Night, but ultimately, "anyone can win."
(09/25/18 10:00am)
When Ben LoCascio ’20 is daydreaming in class, he’s not fantasizing about backpacking across Europe or sipping cocktails on a tropical island. Instead, he’s thinking about coffee. LoCascio began drinking coffee sometime in the eighth grade and hasn’t looked back since. “My dad is from Italy and would always make espresso drinks,” LoCascio mused. “I think it was his rebellion against American drip coffee.” When he was given a $3,000 professional-grade espresso machine by his uncle before attending Brandeis, LoCascio decided to channel his love of coffee into a one-man movable Café stand, affectionately dubbed “Café Undergrounds.” Since then, the Café has taken off, bringing in hundreds of dollars in sales each weekend. From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays, LoCascio can be found selling lattes and Nutella paninis from a small cart parked in Upper Usdan. He’s keenly aware of his competition on campus: between Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks and Einstein's, students have wondered where Café Underground fits in. LoCascio says he isn’t sweating the competition, because he has a secret force behind him — God.
(09/25/18 10:00am)
On Fridays, Ben LoCascio '20 spends the day selling lattes from a small cart in Uper Usdan. While the competition on campus is large, he says making coffee is his calling.
(09/25/18 10:00am)
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon faced backlash when she was caught on camera ordering lox and cream cheese on a cinnamon raisin bagel in Manhattan.
(09/30/18 5:21pm)
A wrong bagel order may have ruined her day. On the morning of Sept. 13, the day of the New York state primary, democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon walked from her apartment to Zabar’s deli on the Upper West side of Manhattan, where she made the grave mistake of ordering cream cheese and lox on a cinnamon raisin bagel. It is considered taboo to mix sweet and sour in this case, and reporters and patrons inside were aghast. Later, after many in the press dubbed the incident “Bagel-Gate,” Nixon felt compelled to defend her order, telling the New York Times, “I’m stunned. This is my bagel of choice for a few decades now. It’s never been public knowledge, and I really am fascinated that people are so emotional about it.”
(09/18/18 10:00am)
Cider, donuts and iMacs: what do all of these apple products have in common? They were all in the Brandeis Library on Thursday, Sept. 13, to mark the annual Meet Your Personal Librarian event, offering students the opportunity to mingle with their librarians over autumnal refreshments. Students could ask general questions, receive help with research, connect with various library resources or just get to know their personal librarian better. Among the attendees was Associate University Librarian for Research & Instruction Laura Hibbler, who talked about her job in an interview with the Justice, about what it’s like to be a personal librarian at Brandies.
(09/18/18 10:00am)
“I hope you cannot go through an international business school and think that tariffs are a good idea,” said David P. Kelly, the chief global strategist and head of the global market insights strategy team for J.P. Morgan Chase, to a room of wide-eyed Brandeis students. The audience had gathered for an hour of conversation about the state of the economy, and while words terms like “treasury securities” and “normalization path” don’t usually raise eyebrows, on Thursday evening, talk of “rising debt” and the “gig economy” had some Brandeis students on the edge of their seats.
(09/21/18 2:54pm)
WORK HARD PLAY HARD: Laura Hibbler sees the library as a place for students undergoing stress to gather on campus and study together.
(09/18/18 10:00am)
RISKY BUSINESS: Catherine L. Mann lamented that many firms play it safe instead of investing in riskier but pioneering technologies.
(09/05/18 5:48pm)
(09/05/18 5:48pm)
Strong Sisterhood: APiPhi believes their small size makes the relationships between the members that much more enduring.
(09/04/18 10:00am)
HIGH MARKS: ADPhi prides itself on being the most academically focused fraternity at Brandeis.
(04/24/18 10:00am)
“It’s a really nice thing to learn and develop something. It doesn’t have to be boxing; it just turned out that way,” said Brandeis Boxing Club president, Sonor Sereeter ’19, in an interview with the Justice. Sereeter is not the only Brandeis student for whom the boxing club plays an important role. Throughout the years, the club has found a special place in the hearts of many Brandeis students.
(04/24/18 10:00am)
According to a 2015 study on sexual assault on college campuses by The National Sexual Violence Resource Center, more than 90 percent of sexual assault survivors on college campuses do not report their assault. Given recent reports in national newspapers on college assaults and video series like “The Hunting Ground” airing on primetime television, colleges and universities across the country have found themselves in the spotlight. Under mounting public pressure to act, university administrators have worked to address the issue of campus sexual violence in a variety of ways, and Brandeis is no different.
(04/24/18 10:00am)
ON THE MARK: Boxing is often called the “sweet science,” as it requires finding a perfect balance between hitting and not getting hit.