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On Friday night, Cholmondeley’s coffeehouse opened for the first time following an incident on March 6, 2015 during which the staff did not evacuate the building after the smoke detector went off. At the end of last semester, the space was open for events scheduled prior to the incident, but it has not been open for regular hours since.
Ten years ago, four-fifths of the city of New Orleans was destroyed by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina--a storm that affected Florida, Cuba, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. By Aug. 28, the storm’s intensity escalated to a Category 5 storm with winds at 160 miles per hour, and 25,000 to 30,000 New Orleans residents took refuge in the Superdome. On Sept. 2, Congress approved a $10.5 billion aid package, and President Bush announced, “I am satisfied with the response. I am not satisfied with the results.” By Nov. 21, estimates put the death toll at 1,306 people. Looking back, how did Katrina affect you, and how can the cities be better prepared for future superstorms?
Very few matters of public policy are as important as, and yet still consume as little political thought as anti-poverty policy. The political landscape is changing—Clinton declared in her campaign kickoff speech that “success isn’t measured by how much the wealthiest Americans have, but by how many children climb out of poverty”—but for the most part, such proclamations are candidates’ attempts to burnish their populist credentials, Hillary Clinton included. The deck is stacked against the (rapidly shrinking) middle class, as progressives such as Senator Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren remind us, but little has been said from any candidate that amounts to a fresh approach in helping communities mired in cyclical poverty.
She tries to explain the importance of being in the presence of original works of art, as opposed to their digital reproductions, by recounting a recent experience she had with a famed sculpture.
REACHING BACK: Haley Cohen ’18 takes a backhand stroke in a match against New York University at home on April 18.
Derek Carlson ’91 was announced as the new head coach of the men’s baseball team on Friday, succeeding Pete Varney and becoming the ninth baseball coach in university history.
This week justArts spoke with Robert P.D. Duff, who has been appointed as the Choral Conductor at Brandeis. Duff will oversee the vocal program, teach conducting, and lead two choral ensembles as part of the Department of Music. He also will continue to serve as the Artistic and Musical Director at the Handel Society at Dartmouth College.
“Worth It”
There are few, if any, places where the name of a founding father prompts a crowd to rush to its feet. When Lin-Manuel Miranda’s character entered the stage at the Richard Rogers Theater in New York City, Broadway became one of those places. Following his entrance, the other characters noticed Miranda’s character and asked, “What’s your name, man?” Miranda replied, “Alexander Hamilton,” and the show took a quick pause as the audience roared.
“FA 18A: Digital Documentary Photography,” a new course this semester, combines Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) with Fine Arts, documentation and personal expression. The 15-person course has been full since August registration opened, and it will be Professor Pablo Delano’s (FA) first course at Brandeis. JustArts asked Prof. Delano to elaborate on this one-time course in an interview over email, transcribed below.
In “ENG 32B: The Black Transnational Romance,” students will have the opportunity to read and discuss titles like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah” (2013) and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” (2015), among others. The one-time only course, new for fall 2015, will explore black diaspora fiction from the 20th and 21st centuries. Graduate student and all-but-doctorate PhD candidate Gina Pugliese will conduct the course this semester. Pugliese received special permission from the University to teach the course and share what she has learned over the course of her own research.
JustNews: You were first hired in 2008 as Dean of the Heller School. You came here from a professorship at Tufts, you were an academic dean. You were a chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. What inspired you to want to come to Brandeis in the first place?
Editor's Note: This article has been updated for the August 25 print edition of the Justice.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated for the August 25 print edition of The Justice.
Among the most meaningful aspects of graduation season are the collective good wishes and farewells that the more permanent members of the Brandeis community send off to those soon-to-be-alumni whom they have come to know over the years. One such professor graciously gave me a graduation gift along with some kind words. Yet this gift represents to me much more than a simple goodbye—instead, this gift is emblematic of what higher education should be, and what it most certainly is at Brandeis University.
As graduation draws near, I would hate to depart this special community with unshared feelings. With the intention of originally molding my thoughts into a commencement speech, I’ve turned to writing this Op-Ed as a reflection on my past four years as a scholar, peer and champion of our university.
Correction appended.
Beginning July 1, Prof. Irving Epstein (CHEM) will become the interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, according to an email Provost Lisa Lynch sent to the community on May 7.
Well, another school year has come and gone.
Last Tuesday, President Obama called for “a full, frank and just acknowledgement” by the Turkish government that this year marks a century following what Obama called the “massacres of Armenians.” Beginning on April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Turks ordered the deportation of Christian Armenians for fear of their potential alliance with Russia during World War I, leading to the deaths of some 1.5 million. However, despite a 2008 campaign promise, Obama refused to use the term “genocide” to describe the event. According to an April 21 New York Times article, this is largely due to fear of alienating NATO ally Turkey, which has historically denied the event was a genocide. Last Sunday, Pope Francis expressed that the atrocities in Armenia describe “the first genocide of the 20th century.” How do you react to Obama’s decision to not call the massacres of Armenians “genocide,” and what effect do you think that decision has on setting international precedent for what is and isn’t considered genocide?