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(11/13/18 11:00am)
MIDTERM REVIEW: State Senator Adam Hinds (D-Pittsfield) is optimistic about the new generation of young women entering congress.
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Stories of a Syrian Migrant
(11/06/18 11:00am)
A lot can change in two years. The last time the Brandeis community spoke to Ibrahim Shkhess, he had just begun his life in Germany after leaving Syria. Shkhess was one of over 1 million refugees that entered Germany under Angela Merkel’s open-door policy. At the time, he was living in a refugee home and knew almost no German.
A hack for progress
(11/06/18 11:00am)
Surrounded by technology and students sprawled over an endless awwrray of tables, Benjamin Segal ’20 worked alongside his brother Geva Segal from Clark University to build a technological solution for recycling. After working with newly found partners Evan Hoffman, (also from Clark University) and Olivia Banks from Brown University, for 36 hours over three days in late October, the team presented its final product, EcoSort, and won the Microsoft Azure Champ Challenge at HackHarvard 2018. Their winning pitch was fueled by copious amounts of coffee and less than an hour’s sleep the night before.
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(11/06/18 11:00am)
THE BIG IDEA: Ben Segal ’20 conceived of the idea for EcoSort by observing how often Brandeis students incorrectly dispose of waste.
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(11/06/18 11:00am)
PROOF OF CONCEPT: Ben Segal ’20 and his team utilized various software, hardware and prototyping hacks to create EcoSort, a smart waste-disposal container.
Identity Awareness
(10/30/18 10:00am)
Not long ago, domestic violence was regarded as a family issue. When police responded to a domestic disturbance call, they often told abusers to just take a walk. With the passage of the Violence Against Women Act of 1991, domestic violence shifted from being a “family” matter to a national, political issue. However, the criminalization of domestic violence did not solve the problem. And as people are increasingly entering and being abused in romantic relationships that are not heteronormative, the perceptions and discourse surrounding domestic violence have to change, according to a domestic violence panel.
What's the deal with TRON?
(10/30/18 10:00am)
“Hey, I’ll see you around,” Robert Singer ’19 said on his way out of his politics class. “I gotta go buy a banana so I don’t die.”
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(10/30/18 10:00am)
PURE SPORT: In 1978, former TRON member, Mike Banks ’29 told the Boston Globe that Ultimate Frisbee is the “purest sport.”
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(10/30/18 10:00am)
SPEAKING UP: The panelists discussed the lack of support systems available to members of the LGBTQIA community who experience domestic abuse.
Crazy Stupid Trade
(10/23/18 10:00am)
What did it mean for Germany when Angela Merkel’s sister party, the Christian Social Union, got clobbered in last month’s Bavarian parliamentary election? Are trade wars good for Americans? And how can the first chapter of an economics textbook help Trump understand global trade?
Planting Happiness
(10/23/18 10:00am)
If you were wondering what an oasis of greenery was doing in the middle of the Shapiro Campus Center on Oct. 17 and 18, or why people were leaving with tiny plants, wonder no longer. It was just Randy Skolnick, Brandeis’s friendly neighborhood plantsman.
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(10/23/18 10:00am)
COUPLE GOALS: Now that his wife June is retired and he only works six months a year, Randy often brings June along with him to sell plants across the northeast.
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(10/23/18 10:00am)
A HAPPY PLACE: Randy Skolnick is at home among plants. He said, “I just love plants. I like ’em better than people. I give ’em what they need and they don’t talk back.”
A maxim for people with a sweet tooth
(10/16/18 10:00am)
When Max LeBlanc ’22 was a freshman in high school, he began working in a local ice cream store. In his hometown, the tourism-driven community of Kennebunk, Maine, LeBlanc was just looking to earn some extra money for college. As a 14-year-old, he had no idea that in less than four years, he would be the founder of his own dessert shop.
It’s time to vote!
(10/16/18 10:00am)
At the entrance of the Shapiro Campus Center atrium last Thursday, two long, gray tables were stretched out, filled with candy, snacks and boxes of white envelopes. At the end of the tables, a blue, red, and white-checkered sign read, “Register to Vote!”
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(10/16/18 10:00am)
GET ENFRANCHISED: “I think it’s always important to vote, regardless of what the political climate is,” said Lauren Komer ’21.
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(10/16/18 10:00am)
CIVIC DUTY: Over 60 students came to the voter-registration drive to claim their absentee ballots.
Making a lasting impact
(10/09/18 10:00am)
While waiting for physical therapy, a group of student athletes noticed Marci McPhee’s sweatshirt and asked what sport she coached. “Uh...” McPhee responded. “It’s a social justice thing — ’DEIS Impact.”
Let’s talk about race
(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.
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(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?