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Despite what the op-ed pages of the New York Times might have one believe, there really is no unified theory of Trump — an overriding explanation for his entrance into public life last summer and, ever since, his utter domination of the Republican presidential race.
Josh Gondelman ’07 is many things: a stand-up comic, a writer for “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver, the co-author of the widely popular @SeinfeldToday Twitter account, a former preschool teacher and a Brandeis alumnus.
A voice from the back of the theater emerged and Nyah Macklin ’16 walked down an aisle singing “Take Me to the Water,” by Nina Simone. Simultaneously, Brontë Velez ’16 danced down the center aisle, and the sound of a violin accompaniment came as Priya DeBerry ’17 walked down the opposite side. The audience remained transfixed, and eyes followed the trio as they made their way towards the stage.
In the highly contended race for Student Union president, current Student Union Vice President David Herbstritt ’17 came out on top, narrowly edging out Ford Hall 2015 activist Christian Nunez ’18 by two votes. Seven Student Union positions were filled in Thursday’s first round of spring elections.
Last Monday, as the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Syrian Civil War approached, President Vladimir Putin declared that he would withdraw a significant portion of Russian forces from Syria after five months of supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with military assistance. This announcement coincided with the continuation of UN-facilitated peace talks in Geneva that had been suspended in early February. What do you think of Putin’s withdrawal of his armed forces, and what do you think this will mean for Syria?
Ridicule and immaturity have been the defining characteristics of this year’s presidential race. Candidates’ tweets, debate speeches and campaign ads — they’ve all been rife with shameless “politics of resentment.” Two striking figures, in particular, have dominated the political and media landscape. They have won the hearts and minds of millions across a multitude of demographics. Age, gender, education and ethnicity all seem to be blind to these two candidates. They ostensibly come from opposite sides of the aisle, and yet, they are remarkably similar. They are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
In response to Seth Greenwald’s article “Criticize the University’s proposed $10,000 graduate stipend” (March 7):
On Monday, after three days of debate and 39 hours of filibuster by Democratic state senators, the Missouri Senate voted on and approved a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would protect religious groups that refuse to facilitate same-sex marriages, according to a March 9 New York Times article. Before becoming official, the bill must pass the state Senate once more and then pass the state House. This proposed amendment highlights the constitutional struggle between those who claim same-sex marriages are an affront to their First Amendment religious freedom and the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. Do you think this proposed state amendment is constitutional, and what is the best way for the First Amendment and Obergefell v. Hodges to coexist?
Last Tuesday the Women’s Studies Research Center celebrated International Women’s Day with Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard (WSRC), a self-proclaimed feminist before the women’s movement.
Students addressed the issues of race and environmentalism surrounding the Flint water crisis and how individuals might provide assistance to those in urban or underserved areas in a panel discussion on Wednesday. The event, titled “From Ford Hall to Flint: A Conversation On Environmental Racism and Activism,” was moderated by Saren McAllister ’18 and Roger Perez MA-SID/MBA '16 and was sponsored by the Brandeis Pluralism Alliance and Brandeis Climate Justice.
On Friday, a Harvard Law School committee tasked with reviewing the use of the school’s seal made a formal recommendation to the Harvard Corporation — which has final say over all decisions regarding Harvard University — in favor of removing the seal altogether.
At the 88th annual Academy Awards last Sunday, Brandeis alumnus Michael Sugar ’95 stepped onto the stage at the Dolby Theater to accept the Academy Award for “Spotlight,” which won Best Picture as well as Best Screenplay that night.
This week, our Forum section planned to include a column from Dor Cohen ’16, who for the past year has been a columnist for this section. We now have reason to believe that Cohen directly plagiarized several sections of the column he had planned for this week, and that the Justice has published plagiarism in at least four of Cohen’s past columns. As a result, Cohen is no longer a columnist for the Forum section.
In a Feb. 24 email titled “Update on diversity and inclusion efforts,” Interim President Lisa Lynch described the foundation of a new scholarship model for the coming year. In part, Lynch stated that the University would be establishing “a new pilot program based on the Posse Model [that] will offer a full-tuition scholarship and a $10,000 stipend to as many as five students per year” in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Lynch neither offered an explanation for the source of this funding nor elaborated whether this stipend would come with any stipulations.
Interim University President Lisa Lynch’s salary ranks in the lowest 7th percentile of comparable institutions, according to a presentation on executive compensation that Board of Trustees Chair Perry Traquina ’78 gave at Friday’s faculty meeting.
The women’s basketball team ended their season on Saturday losing to New York University 70-56 at home, after losing to the University of Chicago 63-50 last Sunday. With the loss on Saturday, the Judges finish the season with a 12-13 record overall and 5-9 record in University Athletic Association play.
As a Trustee, adjunct associate professor at the International Business School, alumnus, parent of alumnae and donor, I watched with interest the events on campus in the late fall when students took over the Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center as part of a concerted effort to make and negotiate for a set of demands.
A few years ago, someone asked me when I started identifying as a feminist, and I struggled to answer. Since childhood, I’ve always believed in — to quote author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — “the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.” Part of the reason I’ve identified as a feminist, even if I didn’t always understand that label, is my mother. Thanks to her, I’ve always felt confident in myself and my abilities despite living in a society that can often belittle or doubt women, and I’ve always felt comfortable speaking up in the classroom regardless of how male-dominated it is. Better still, with her support and keen eye for editing cover letters, I found a dream internship at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. My mother and I have always tended to agree on most political issues, and when we’ve had our disagreements, like all mothers and daughters do, it’s over small things — like how I dye my hair liberally with blue streaks or my stubborn insistence on only studying dead languages. However, the 2016 primaries has triggered a larger disagreement over politics, progressivism and how to judge whether a candidate is feminist and whose feminism should be used as that metric.
This article has been updated in the March 1 issue of the Justice.
Last Friday, the Department of Community Living proposed two changes to the University’s housing lottery system in an email to students, which would break up class year-specific housing quads and offering better housing lottery numbers to students loyal to campus housing. A survey will be sent to the student body today so that they can provide feedback on these proposals and suggest new ways of improving the housing lottery. If the student body shows approval of the proposals in the survey, the policies would be put into effect for this semester’s upcoming housing lottery.