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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
(11/05/19 11:00am)
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.
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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.
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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.”
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In commemoration of Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom that devastated and drastically threatened the autonomy, security and freedom of German Jews on the night of Nov. 9, 1939, the Center for German and European Studies hosted a conversation on Nov. 4 with Dr. Hans Fisher, who at the age of 11 was a passenger and survivor of the SS St. Louis.
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Sivan Shtang (Ph.D.) presented a lecture on the use of cleaning and cleanliness as a symbol of oppression in Mizrahi contemporary art on Tuesday as part of the University’s Hebrew Language and Arts Week.
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The Student Union Senate held a short meeting on Sunday, where they discussed the upcoming special election, talked about Student Union President Simran Tatuskar’s ’21 public apology for the recent Judiciary case and voted on a new amendment about Senate committee requirements.
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Waltham elections will be held today, according to an Oct. 31 Patch Waltham article.
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Prof. David Weil, dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, testified on Oct. 23 before the United States House of Representatives in a joint subcommittee hearing on “The Future of Work: Preserving Worker Protections in the Modern Economy.”
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Charles River Senator Oliver Price ’20 is working on an amendment to the Union Constitution to pay certain members of secured clubs. Price said he hopes the Senate will vote on the amendment in February so that secured clubs would have the rest of the spring semester to become wage-eligible.
(10/29/19 10:00am)
The Student Union and rideshare giant Lyft are partnering to subsidize late-night rides this week for students as part of a plan to educate on safe rideshare habits and eliminate critical gaps in transportation that often compromise student safety, Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 announced in an email to the Brandeis community last Tuesday.
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Two students at the Christa McAuliffe Charter School in Framingham, MA recently created a Snapchat group named “Kill the jews,” according to an Oct. 16 Boston Globe article.
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Dr. Gwendolyn Mink and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California Irvine, delivered the 15th annual Eleanor Roosevelt lecture, entitled “First Woman of Color in Congress: Patsy Takemoto Mink’s Feminist Politics.”