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“Wer zu spät kommt, den bestraft das Leben.” [Whoever arrives late is punished by life]. Former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev supposedly said this to East German leader Erich Honecker after the pompous fortieth anniversary celebrations of the communist German Democratic Republic in October 1989.
Interim President Lisa Lynch announced at last Wednesday’s town hall forum that the University will not make a decision on whether to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry until after the next University president is selected. She also addressed rumors about the future of Usen Castle, saying that the University will most likely have to take down part of the building, as the renovations required to preserve it for the next 20 years would most likely be prohibitively expensive.
On Oct. 30, President Obama announced plans to deploy around 50 Special Operations forces to Syria — a decision which, according to an Oct. 30 New York Times article, is “the first open-ended mission by United States ground forces in that country.” President Obama has, in the past, expressed aversion at staging military operations for their own sake — so I think it’s safe to assume that their “advisory” capacity isn’t just that. “These forces do not have a combat mission,” assured Josh Earnest, White House press secretary, but given the history of “US advisors” (see: Vietnam War), this claim strains credulity. So are we going to war again? Quite possibly. “Going to war” used to mean actually drafting articles of war on another state or group — a step further than simply authorizing military action — but the last time this was actually done was December 1941, following Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor. Today, going to war more closely resembles “protracted military involvement.”― Certainly, how we conduct war has changed, but what has changed far more than that is what we are willing to admit is indeed war.
The University’s 9th annual Ann Richards Invitational Roundtable on Gender and the Media focused on the role older individuals play in the work force and how the concept of retirement has evolved in the last few decades. The event took place last Thursday, Nov. 5 at the Women’s Resource Center at Brandeis University.
This weekend’s meet at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute proved to be a tough battle for the men and women’s swimming and diving team.
The Judges got off to a successful start this season at the New England Fall Collegiate Championship, or “the Big One,” at Smith College on Saturday. The fencers took home three medals between the men and women in their first competition of the season. On the women’s side, Caroline Mattos ’16 utterly dominated her competition. In pool play, she only surrendered two touches in six bouts, propelling her to the top seed in the direct elimination round. In that round, she defeated her three opponents by a total combined score of 45-9.
The Board of Trustees considered honorary degree recipients as well as renovations to the Castle and new fundraising initiatives at their annual Fall meeting last Monday and Tuesday, according to Senior Representative to the Board of Trustees Grady Ward ’16.
On Friday night, a crowd gathered in the Lois Foster Gallery of the Rose Art Museum where the walls were adorned with several oil paintings depicting the female body.The audience was awaiting Mallory Ortberg, a writer and comedian who would review “The Brood,” an exhibition currently on display in the gallery that surveys the most defining creative moments from 25 years of painting by American artist Lisa Yuskavage.
As part of a panel of experts from multiple backgrounds and universities, Rabbi David Ellenson — the director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies — participated in a debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Boston University on Wednesday. The debate was one part of an event titled “Yitzhak Rabin & the Legacy of Oslo: Prospects for Mid-East Peace Twenty Years After the Assassination.”
Canada elected its first new prime minister in nearly a decade last Monday, as the Conservative Party’s Stephen Harper was ousted by Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party, which also gained an absolute majority in the country’s government. Though Canada is the United States’s largest trading partner, Harper’s relationship with President Barack Obama has been complicated, due to Obama’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, which Harper supports. Trudeau, though nominally pro-Keystone as well, has also spoken about the importance of balancing environmental impacts of the proposed pipeline. The Liberal party has also indicated that it would remove Canada’s non-NATO military from the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State. As the US prepares for its own presidential elections, how do you see Trudeau’s election impacting the next year of US-Canada relations?
On Saturday afternoon, the Brandeis community bestowed the highest form of university recognition upon two alums: social justice activist Roy DeBerry ’70, MA ’78, PhD ’79, and founding editor in chief of Lilith magazine Susan Weidman Schneider ’65.
In response to your article “Commuters denied access to dorms (Oct.13), the following is an open letter sent to DCL:
As the chair of the Brandeis Department of Anthropology, I am delighted to report that 100 percent of the anthropology department’s tenured and tenure-track faculty have signed the Brandeis Faculty Forward petition in support of a vote among faculty outside the tenure track for a union.
On Sept. 28, the University appointed Ed Marsh, the founder of a global business advising firm and an expert in marketing, to the advisory board for its new Master of Science in Digital Marketing and Design degree.
It took 95 minutes, but Alec Spivack ’16 scored a howler off of a free kick to propel the Brandeis Judges (12-2-1, 2-2 UAA) to a 1-0 win in extra time on Sunday against the No. 7 Washington University in St. Louis Bears (12-2, 3-1 UAA). Spivack’s goal came at a crucial time, as the Judges had dropped a game to the unranked University of Chicago earlier in the weekend, but this win was important in keeping pace both in the UAA and in the national rankings.
On Oct. 8, the Women’s Studies Research Center held a panel discussion on “Collateral Damage: Civil Society in War.” Through their research and artwork, the three panelists — WSRC scholars Mary Hamill and Linda Bond and senior lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Bonnie Donohue — discussed how society changes both during and after war.
This week justArts spoke with LaShawn Simmons ’18 about Ebony Axis, a zine for Brandeis black women created with a grant from the Creativity, the Arts and Social Transformation program.
The American government, for all intents and purposes, is melting down.
Donald Trump could very well be America’s next president. Or “America’s First African President.” At least, that is what Trevor Noah, the host who has taken the seat of our beloved Jon Stewart, has to say. In an Oct. 1 bit, the 31 year old South African host revealed how he became truly at home when Donald Trump entered the political arena his summer. While those in the mainstream media pellet Trump with criticism, citing an inability to stand among his peers on the stage, Noah takes a different approach, mocking “that stage is unfit for Trump. There’s no marble, there’s no gold. Where are the women in bikinis? And how would he even get there? There’s no escalator.”