Use the field below to perform an advanced search of The Justice archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query.
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.
Students gathered in the Napoli Room in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center to watch a fishbowl-style panel featuring transgender athletes from across NCAA sports, divisions, and schools on Thursday, March 31. The panel was sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Center, Brandeis Athletics, and Athlete Ally, an organization working to dismantle the systems of oppression in sports for LGBTQIA+ people. The panel featured four student athletes, as well as a moderator from Athlete Ally.
One of the Student Union’s current projects is working towards an expansion of the transportation options on campus, most specifically looking to provide some form of transportation connecting the Brandeis campus to the MBTA Riverside Line.
Peter Frumhoff is a prominent environmental activist who has helped bring global attention to issues related to climate change. He spoke to the Brandeis community on March 30 on a broad range of environmental-related topics, including the history of environmental activism, the impact capitalism has on climate change, what passionate students can do to make a difference, and how to stay positive when working in a field that is so often discouraging.
In 1983, Dr. Sally Ride proved that the sky is not, in fact, the limit by being the first American woman to go to space. Now, Brandeis graduate Elana Hagler ’02 has designed a coin to commemorate Ride’s achievements as part of the American Women Quarters Program, a project of the U.S. Mint. The quarter featuring Ride is one of five quarters featuring notable American women of all different backgrounds. The other coins will feature Maya Angelou, Anna May Wong, Wilma Mankiller, and Nina Otero-Warren, and the project will roll out over four years.
On Wednesday, March 23, people gathered in Shiffman 219 to listen to students and faculty read poems written by Latina poets with piano accompaniment by Alyssa Zylberger ’25. In celebration of women’s history month, Prof. Zoila Castro (ROMS), Prof. Lucía Reyes de Deu (ROMS), Prof. Elena González Ros (ROMS), and academic administrators Katie Dickinson and Ellen Rounseville organized the inaugural Latina Poetry Night.
Activist Fred Guttenberg gave an impassioned lecture on the dangers of gun violence at an event on March 24 hosted by Brandeis Students Demand Action. Guttenberg’s daughter, Jaime, was among the 17 killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14, 2018, the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Since his daughter’s death, Guttenberg has been an outspoken advocate for gun control and against gun violence, speaking at events across the country and urging teenagers and young adults to speak out.
Brandeis has dissociated from the Middle Eastern Studies Association, according to a March 24 article on BrandeisNow after MESA voted in favor of a resolution endorsing the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions of Israeli academic institutions.
The Student Union Senate chartered three clubs and recognized a fourth at its March 27 meeting. The Senate also approved a Senate Money Resolution to provide funding for t-shirts for this semester’s Midnight Buffet.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Fellows Garden was bustling with bubble tea, ice cream, puppies, and more on Friday, March 25. These treats were all part of “Wellness Day,” planned by the Division of Student Affairs and the Student Union.
In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, individuals and organizations around the world have been taking initiatives to support victims of the conflict, one of these being students at Harvard University. Taisia Kulyk started a petition to the Harvard administration called “Petition to Harvard to Support Students Affected by the War in Ukraine.” This petition urges the administration to offer a range of academic, financial, and legal support to students and scholars from the regions of Ukraine, Russia, and Belarusia.
Prof. Sabine von Mering (GECS) exclaimed that when the Center for German and European Studies first began planning the “Contextualizing the Ukraine Crisis” webinar set to take place on March 22, they were not expecting the countries to be at war. Following Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, however, von Mering continued “we now find ourselves in the fourth week of war, with thousands dead, millions fleeing, and numerous hard economic losses.” In order to fully understand this crisis, it is important to look at it from a political and economic context and evaluate Germany’s crucial role in all of this.
Prof. Dorothy Kim (ENG) is currently working to develop a virtual corpus, or collection of written texts, of Early Middle English language. This would give researchers the opportunity to search across multiple archives and databases of manuscripts. The current status of the Open Corpus Project, as the site is titled, was unveiled at a Faculty Lunch Symposium on Thursday, March 17.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
The Student Union Senate discussed chartering the Brandeis Curling Club and the Brandeis Entrepreneurial and Tech Association at its March 20 meeting. The Pokémon club was supposed to present, but did not attend the meeting.
On March 16, Andrea Dine, assistant vice president of student affairs, sent out an email to the Brandeis community with a subject line of “Important update: Increase in Testing Frequency for Students.” The email announced that as of March 17, the required testing frequency was once again every 96 hours. Students must submit on-campus PCR tests roughly twice a week, a quick turnaround from the previously announced relaxation of requirements that reduced testing to once a week. The email specified that the update in the testing policy was due to an increase in positivity and quarantine rates on campus. It also stated that as of that Thursday, they expected the University to “have the highest number of students in isolation or quarantine since the pandemic began.”
This past Wednesday and Thursday were filled with celebratory traditions across Brandeis’ campus, such as costumes, music, dancing, and feasts, in honor of the Jewish holiday of Purim. Together, the Brandeis Hillel and the Chabad House sought to celebrate and engage the Brandeis community with the holiday, which took place this year on March 16-17. Each organization held various events, services, and parties for students to participate in over the two-day holiday.