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(01/30/18 11:00am)
Following in the footsteps of other professional sports teams and universities, the Cleveland Indians have finally acknowledged that their logo and mascot are offensive — not to mention racist — and will discontinue their use in 2019. Beginning next year, the Cleveland Indians will no longer use the Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms, according to a Jan. 29 New York Times article. In a statement published on Jan. 29 in an ABC News article, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said, "Major League Baseball is committed to building a culture of diversity and inclusion throughout the game," and that the logo "is no longer appropriate for on-field use." The decision made by Major League Baseball and the Cleveland Indians reflects the movement among sports teams in recent history to retire Native American nicknames, symbols and mascots. According to a Sept. 12, 2013 USA Today article, Stanford University was among the first universities to change its mascot from the Indians to a Cardinal in 1972, and schools such as Dartmouth University, Siena University and Eastern Michigan University quickly followed suit.
(01/30/18 11:00am)
According to a Friday email from East Quad Department of Community Living staff, an “incident with a sprinkler head” on the fifth floor of Hassenfeld Hall led to water rushing into up to 72 rooms — the number of rooms on the fourth and fifth floors of Hassenfeld — and two hallways on Thursday evening. According to the same email, University Police are still investigating the cause of the incident and asked students to offer any information that they had on the matter. This board applauds the University’s efforts to quickly defuse the situation but urges it to conduct a thorough investigation into the root cause of the flooding and find a way to prevent similar incidents in the future. It is also imperative that the University remain transparent and communicative throughout this process.
(01/23/18 11:00am)
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(01/23/18 11:00am)
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(01/23/18 11:00am)
In Thursday’s Student Union elections, 17 candidates will face off for 10 open seats across the Senate, Allocations Board, Judiciary and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
(01/16/18 11:00am)
Medical Emergency
(01/16/18 6:46pm)
Most would agree there are few places as overwhelming as the Shapiro Campus Center on the day of the Winter Involvement Fair. This Sunday, hundreds of students wandered through the atrium, some looking to join a new club and others passionately promoting their own.
(01/16/18 11:02am)
One of the more interesting stories to come out of the sports world this past year was the story of the Ball family. The family first gained notoriety when its oldest son, Lonzo, started gaining national attention as a high school prospect at Chino Hills High School, in California. He committed to the University of California, Los Angeles, and it was soon clear that he would be one of the top talents in his draft class. During Lonzo’s freshman year, his younger brothers LiAngelo and LaMelo made headlines of their own as they dominated opponents as a senior and sophomore at Chino Hills. As the word of the family’s talent spread, and Lonzo’s future in the National Basketball Association became more cemented, the patriarch of the family began to make his presence known.
(12/05/17 11:00am)
(11/21/17 11:00am)
Historically, Brandeis has not been known for its school spirit. Recently, the Brandeis Athletics Department has taken great strides toward encouraging and facilitating school spirit within the student body. This board commends the department for its efforts in bringing in new marketing techniques to incentivize attendance to sporting events. However, there are still underlying issues that prevent Brandeis school spirit from reaching its full potential.
(11/21/17 11:03am)
Led by tremendous defense and an MVP performance from guard Hannah Nicholson ’20, the Brandeis women’s basketball team swept the Brandeis Invitational this weekend, with two dominant wins over Mitchell College and Eastern Nazarene College.
(11/07/17 11:02am)
The Brandeis swimming and diving teams combined to win four of five matchups this past Friday at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute invitational.
(11/07/17 11:01am)
Members of the Brandeis women’s volleyball team, head coach Alesia Vaccari, family, friends and fans of this squad have an awful lot to be proud of this season. As the sports editor of the Justice, I have been covering this team for over a year now and I am truly inspired by this team’s incredible transformation. In just one year, the Judges improved their numbers in every major team category per set: assists, digs, service aces, blocks, hitting percentage and kills. Last year’s team finished the regular season with a 7-21 record and ended the year on a 12-game losing streak. This season, the Judges finished with a winning record at 15-14, including an outstanding 9-2 mark at home.
(10/31/17 10:00am)
With swipe access to the Linsey Sports Center available only to a limited number of individuals, Adagio Dance Company members must often walk through active sports games in the Red Auerbach Arena. A new petition from the Company asserts that this leaves them vulnerable to injury.
(10/31/17 10:00am)
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(10/31/17 10:00am)
Review — The end of October always brings spooky fun, but few events are as franken-tastic as this past week’s a cappella Spook-A-Palooza. The event was hosted by Starving Artists and was both musically impressive and comically lighthearted. Six a cappella groups gathered in Schwartz Hall, in full costumes ranging from a psychedelic cat to a risque Winnie the Pooh and everywhere in between.
(10/24/17 10:00am)
Medical Emergency
(10/24/17 10:00am)
The Gosman Sports and Convocation Center was packed to the brim this past weekend, with the up-and-coming X Ambassadors performing live in front of a rowdy crowd of Brandeisian students. X Ambassadors, led by vocalist Sam Harris, is best known for their top-10 Billboard songs from their 2015 album, “VHS,” which has sold over 500,000 copies to date. Their lineup of hit songs, including “Unsteady,” “Renegades” and “Jungle,” has vaulted the band to national fame, helping them reach a peak position of No. 7 in the U.S. Billboard 200 weekly charts, in recent years.
(10/17/17 10:00am)
It all began with the simplest of gestures. At the beginning of the 2016 NFL season, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided he would kneel during the national anthem to draw attention to racial inequality and police brutality. On Aug. 26, 2016, Kaepernick remained seated during the national anthem, and on Aug. 27, 2016, he told NFL Media, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” He also said, “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave getting away with murder.”
(10/17/17 10:00am)
Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles on Sept. 20, and President Donald Trump has already suggested that we pull aid. Just weeks before, Hurricane Harvey blasted Texas and the Caribbean. Both hurricanes caused devastation, but the response from the White House could not be more different. According to an Aug. 31 CNN article, Trump commendably donated $1 million of his own money to aid relief efforts in Texas, yet remarked in a backhanded series of Tweets that we cannot aid Puerto Rico “forever.” Throughout his campaign and his first nine months in office, Trump has sneered at anything outside of the 50 states; apparently, that includes U.S. territories and their residents.
