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SEEKING SOLACE: Members of the Delta Phi Epsilon sorority hold a candlelight vigil to talk about eating disorders and share personal stories to spread awareness in their partnership with The National Association for Anorexia and Associated Disorders.
PROVIDING SUPPORT: Amy Scobie-Carroll, the eating disorder specialist at the Psychological Counseling Center, runs the Living in Recovery support group in the PCC.
Travelling for 10 weeks through 10 countries on three continents may seem like a dream trip to some, but for Kevin Dupont ’16, it has become a reality. Dupont will be traveling this summer to research how social media influences and responds to social unrest.
BRANDEIS PRIDE: Dupont shows school spirit by wearing a Brandeis sweatshirt while traveling abroad in Vienna, Austria.
The preschoolers at Lemberg Children’s Center are practicing drawing hearts, pouring glitter and contemplating the question we all do this time of year—what does love mean to you?
Festive Fun: One voyager [lower left] carefully spells out "Happy Valentine's Day" with the help of a teacher and the other [above right] writes the alphabet in green to decorate his card.
Hard at work: Members of the Voyager classroom draw and glue shapes of hearts to Valentine's Day cards that will be sold at the Lemberg Valentine's Day bake sale.
Some samples: Teachers work closely with the preschoolers to help them understand Valentine's Day and by asking them what they think love is.
Making a Mark: Barak [right] interned last summer at Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization that partners with tech companies like Facebook to help bridge the gender gap by teaching teenage girls computer science skills.
Standing Up: Kiki Dimitriadou a fourth year Ph.D. student sees a significant gender disparity between female and male students as her courses become more intensive.
Leading Ladies: WiCS members, Eden Shoshan '16 (left), Gal Barak '16 (center) and Elena Stoeri- D'Arrigo teach female students computer science through an after school program at Waltham High school.
According to the National Center for Women and Information, 37 percent of Computer Science undergraduate degree recipients in 1985 were women. By 2012, that number dropped significantly to 18 percent—with the most prominent names in the field being men.
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If you have ever been to North Carolina, then you have been to a state that once held the name “Klansville, U.S.A.” Nicknamed “Klansville” for its overwhelming Ku Klux Klan membership, North Carolina became a state whose Klan population surprisingly outnumbered those in all the other southern states combined.
If you could spend a summer working anywhere in the world on a project that promotes social justice with the organization of your choice, how would you even begin to decide what to do? What if the deal got a bit more interesting—let's say you would be backed by a community of peers and ethics experts and you'd receive up to $4,000 to finance your dream?
VOICE OF EXPERIENCE: Marci McPhee (left) and David Weinstein (right), both from the Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, pose together at last year’s festival.
SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER: Heather Spector ’17 takes the podium at last year’s ’DEIS Impact festival of social justice.
ALL TOGETHER NOW: This year’s ’DEIS Impacters pose together for a picture with the festival’s new logo. The group of 16 students connect campus clubs through event programming and collaboration.
’DEIS Impact is a festival of social justice taking place Friday through Feb 9. This week-long festival will consist of more than 40 events hosted by clubs, students and academic departments. The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and the Student Union sponsor this annual event. Just Features sat down with Heather Spector ’17, the vice chair of ’DEIS Impact.
The Homeric textual tradition recognizes that no one person is responsible for the Iliad or the Odyssey. Rather, these texts evolved for well over a thousand years, from the pre-Classical era into the Middle Ages, as the result of intergenerational intellectual collaboration. Similarly, the Homer Multitext Project, which aims to increase digital accessibility to these texts, relies on intergenerational intellectual collaboration between undergraduates and professors and across multiple institutions.