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(05/03/22 10:00am)
Harvest Table Culinary Group was unanimously voted in by the Dining Services Request for Proposals Committee to become Brandeis’ new food vendor, according to an April 14 email from Vice President of Campus Planning and Operations Lois Stanley. The new contract will begin in July 2022, and Harvest Table’s arrival on campus is eagerly anticipated by students, who have become disenchanted with the current vendor and catering giant, Sodexo.
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Brandeis Earth Week, presented by the Office of Sustainability and the Center for Spiritual Life, was part of an international effort to focus on environmental issues. Earth Week is an extension of Earth Day, which occurs every year on April 22. According to the Earth Day website, the event was founded in 1970 by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) who wanted “to infuse the energy of student anti-war protests with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution.” In conjunction with Davis Hayes, a young activist at the time, Nelson and Hayes organized a teach-in on college campuses on April 22, 1970. The movement grew until 1990 when Earth Day went international, with 200 million people in 141 countries participating.
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MEDICAL EMERGENCY
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In response to the war in Ukraine, the Brandeis International Business School has launched a new $1 million scholarship called the “Peace Scholarship Fund.” The fund will grant a full scholarship for up to 10 graduate students to complete their education at IBS. The current plan is to award the first scholarships to graduate students this coming fall semester.
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On April 26, University President Ron Liebowitz sent an email to the Brandeis community reporting on highlights from the April Board of Trustees meeting.
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As the last generation of Holocaust survivors continues to shrink, many students such as Aimee Schwartz ’22 understand the importance of keeping survivors’ stories alive and continuing to educate others on the atrocity. Schwartz is a leader of the Holocaust Remembrance Committee at Brandeis, a Hillel affiliate group, which was founded in 2021 and has since “spearheaded an array of events including speakers, film showings, and symbolic art activities,” according to their website.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
Sen. Eric Lesser (D-MA) visited Brandeis on Thursday, April 7, at an event hosted by Brandeis Democrats to talk about his work as a state senator and his campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
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This semester, Prof. Antonella Di Lillo (COSI) deployed a new academic tool in the core computer science class, “Data Structures and the Fundamentals of Computing,” COSI 21A. The tool, known as DALPy, formerly Cormen-Lib, was built and published as open-source software by two students, Eitan Joseph ’22 and Chami Lamelas ’22.
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Period Activists at ‘Deis hosted a panel titled “Spirituality x Periods” on Thursday, April 7. The panel consisted of four Brandeis-affiliated individuals who came to represent their respective religions, comparing and contrasting the different traditional approaches to menstruation. The panel also discussed modern-day ideas and approaches, such as feminist reclamations of traditional practices.
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The Student Union Senate announced a major change to this semester’s State of the Union address and Midnight Buffet. The Senate also chartered two clubs, Brandeis Impact Club and Salvation International Prayer Youth Ministry.
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MEDICAL EMERGENCY
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The University announced that its COVID-19 protocols will be updated again in an April 11 email to the Brandeis community. The University’s new policies have been revised to “more closely align with the CDC guidance for quarantine for community members who are asymptomatic and fully vaccinated, or recently COVID-recovered with a testing exemption, who are identified as close contacts,” the email said. These new policies were officially implemented on April 12. Protocols are the same for individuals who are not fully vaccinated.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
On Wednesday, April 6, posts containing a link to a document titled “Letter to Administration Addressing CA Meal Plan Compensation” began circulating throughout the Brandeis community on social media. The document was initially posted by Community Advisors, who asked fellow students to sign and share the petition. As of Monday afternoon, less than a week later, the petition had accumulated 555 non-CA student signatures. In addition, the document contained signatures from 80 current and incoming CAs; over 50 faculty, staff, and alumni; and over three dozen parents.
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On Friday, April 1, Brandeis announced the speakers and honorary degree recipients for the 2022 commencement ceremony. The ceremony will take place on May 22 and will be held at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA) H’17 will address the Class of 2022 at the University’s 71st commencement exercises. Aerospace engineer and mathematician Christine Mann Darden and David Harris, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, will both be awarded honorary degrees.
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Peyton Gillespie ’25 did not initially intend on running for Student Union president. But, when he found it difficult to find someone to run on a ticket with him running for vice president, he decided to step up and take on the challenge. He asked the Executive Board to help find a vice president, and someone suggested Lia Bergen ’25, who Gillespie knew from his time serving on the senate last semester. He immediately reached out to Bergen, and within ten minutes they were at Massell Pond deciding to run on a ticket together.
(04/05/22 4:00pm)
Students voted in the Student Union elections for the upcoming academic year on April 4. There were 11 races for a total of 13 open seats in the Union, including for the president and vice president, who ran on a ticket together.
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MEDICAL EMERGENCY
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The Student Union Senate chartered two clubs and discussed a possible change to the academic calendar at its April 3 meeting. Vice President Courtney Thrun ’22 said the Union is recommending the change, which would add an extra day off of classes to the spring semester to make up for the lack of other breaks.
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Brandeis students and alumni spoke to inspire the campus community at the TEDx BrandeisU event on Saturday, April 2. Titled “New Paths to Discovery,” the speakers discussed ways to transform one’s life and ways of thinking, as told through their own personal stories and experiences.
