Features
Going the distance
Long-distance couples share their stories.
Love at first swipe
First-years explore the digital dating world, one “like” at a time.
50 years of AAAS: remembering a resistance
The Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS), established on April 24, 1969, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, but the history of Black students and their influence at Brandeis existed long before then. The legacy of Black intellectuals like Ralph Bunche — scholar, eventual Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Brandeis’ first convocation speaker — and Brandeis’ first Black graduate Herman Hemingway ’53, founder of the University’s NAACP chapter, helped Brandeis establish its reputation as an institution of social change.
Forum
EDITORIAL: University is falling down on its social justice mission
This year’s ’DEIS Impact, Brandeis University’s annual social justice festival, featured 52 events. Unfortunately, this is the most impressive thing one can say about ’DEIS Impact. Though the festival’s name suggests that attendees should walk away with some sense of how Brandeis students can make an impact — either on the University itself or on society as a whole — the majority of its events provide little guidance to that end. This shortcoming, however, is only one of the reasons the festival as a whole is so poorly attended.
Views on the News: Virginia Governor Controversy
This past week, a photo from Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s page in his medical school yearbook emerged depicting an unidentified student wearing blackface makeup and another wearing the garb of a Ku Klux Klan member during what appeared to be a costume party. Governor Northam initially apologized for being in the photo, only to backtrack the next day and claim he was not in it. Instead, he referenced another “mistake” from his past: wearing blackface for a Michael Jackson impression at a dance competition. Many politicians are calling for Governor Northam to resign. Do you think he should resign, and why or why not?
Yemen famine crisis is an untold, preventable tragedy
Reading the news gives me a feeling of being stuck. I feel stuck being a college student, especially in a world that has so many problems. Often I sit on the floor and feel powerless. I want to save the world, but I have classes and the T runs to Boston, not Yemen. Thus, too often my solution to big problems is to not think about them at all. How Brandesian. There is a famine in Yemen right now. Millions of pounds of grain earmarked to relieve the widespread famine are rotting in storehouses, according to the New York Times. Doctors Without Borders says the medical health system has effectively collapsed and the country is a hairbreadth away from an outbreak of measles, cholera and diphtheria.
Sports
Judges swim to the end of a successful season
Team looks toward the end of their season and approaches their championship meets.
Season continues at the Valentine’s Invitational at Boston University
Team participates in four meets and approaches UAA Championship as well as the NCAA Championship.
Judges found guilty of defeating both teams they played this week
After intense games on Friday and Sunday, the Judges start a new winning streak.
Arts
justArts Spotlight on the Rose
The United States flag is an iconic symbol, one that elicits an immediate and powerful reaction.
Interview with Batsheva Moskowitz '22
This week, justArts spoke with Batsheva Moskowitz ’22 who wrote and directed one of the Quickies this semester.
Hooked on Tap brings us a HOT Mess
Hooked On Tap danced their hearts out in their annual show this past Sunday night.
Yang rejects recall vote after months of conflict
Going the distance
Alumni Legacies panelists share experiences with Brandeis, AAAS
Activist speaks about Water is Life Movement
At AAAS event, Angela Davis discusses her life in activism