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Organization achieves non-profit status

BaselineMed, an organization founded and run by Brandeis students, recently achieved non-profit status in the state of New York.

Brandeis professors explain the situation in Ukraine: “The people of Ukraine have a right to self-determination that doesn't get to simply be run over with Russian tanks”

According to the New York Times, senior Biden administration officials last week told Congress that Russian President Vladimir Putin “has assembled everything he would need to undertake … the largest military operation on land in Europe since 1945.” The Justice spoke with two Brandeis faculty members, Gary Samore (POL) via email and Steven Wilson (POL) in person, to provide some insight into this complex situation. 

Women’s basketball struggles at Emory 69-43, but upsets Rochester with their first conference win.

Brandeis alum named a Hero of the Year

Brandeis alumnus Drew Weissman M.A. ’81, P’15 was named one of Time Magazine’s 2021 “Heroes of the Year” for his work that led to the development of vaccines for COVID-19. The list of honorees, which was published on Dec. 13, were all vaccine scientists, including Weissman and his research partner, Katalin Karikó. The other honorees were scientists Barney Graham and Kizzmekia Corbett. 

Waltham Group hosts volunteer recruitment night

Waltham Group hosted its recruitment night on Thursday, Jan. 27. The event was held both in-person in the Sherman Function Hall and virtually on Zoom, where coordinators from each of the Waltham Group programs explained their volunteer opportunities.

New faculty members describe teaching amidst COVID-19

The University was excited to welcome students back to in-person learning at the start of the fall 2021 semester. In addition to its students and returning faculty, Brandeis also opened its doors to 25 new faculty members, full time and visiting, according to a BrandeisNOW article. This addition of new members to the University’s community spans all of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Brandeis International Business School. 

For queer students of color, community on campus is vital — and hard to find

When Nicholas Ong ’23 started his first year at Brandeis, it didn’t take long for him to find LGBTQIA+ communities on campus and meet other queer students. But something was always missing. “I always found myself in white queer spaces,” he told the Justice in November 2021. Ong is Cambodian and grew up in a culturally diverse area in Providence, Rhode Island. At Brandeis, however, he struggled to find other students who were both queer and people of color. Ong explained that while he always appreciates and feels validated by being around other LGBTQIA+ people, the experience of being the only POC in a room of white people — even when those people are queer — is something that Ong says is profoundly alienating: “Even though we [can] relate to the queerness aspect of it, it just isn’t the same.”

Journalism at Brandeis: an evolving program designed to keep up with the 21st century

The Journalism program at Brandeis has gone through many changes since the July 2020 arrival of Neil Swidey, director of the program and professor of the practice. Swidey, an award-winning magazine writer and bestselling author, has been working at the Boston Globe since 1999 and is the Editor at Large of the Boston Globe Magazine. Over the past few years, Swidey has worked to expand and improve Brandeis’ Journalism program, cultivating his vision for the program along the way. 

Students petition, demonstrate in support of dining workers

As the end of the semester quickly approaches and the holiday season is in full swing, there’s no shortage of events and festivities happening across campus. And, of course, what’s a party without food? Now, however, the question of who provides this food has become a point of contention among dining workers, students and the Brandeis administration.

McNamara speaks about over 25 years at University

Prof. Eileen McNamara first joined Brandeis in 1995 as an adjunct faculty member while maintaining a full-time career as a columnist at The Boston Globe, where she worked for nearly 30 years covering a vast array of topics from the nightly police beat to Congress. An award winning reporter and columnist, McNamara won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary “for her many-sided columns on Massachusetts people and issues” in 1997. She began teaching full-time at Brandeis in 2007, and eventually became the Director of the Journalism Program, a position that she held until last year. 

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With the exception of 2020, the Nutcracker has been an annual performance put on by the Brandeis Ballet club. The Nutcracker is the story of a little girl named Clara who receives a toy nutcracker from Uncle Drosselmeyer and subsequently goes on an adventure. The show involves an epic battle with the Rat Queen and lovely dances in the Land of the Sweets with the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Flower Queen and various other magical friends. 

Chamber music recital: a euphony a long time in the making

This past weekend, Brandeis University’s music department organized a Chamber Music recital—for the first time in over a year—that allowed a live audience to join in appreciating the performing arts. “Wonderful” would be an understatement when describing the performances. Students shared their hard work by performing pieces from the likes of Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Felix Mendelssohn as well as two jazz pieces. The recital enticed audience members from various walks of life. The students, music department and  recital clearly demonstrated the mastery of the performers, drawing the audience with a euphony of instrumental duets and trios.

The Top 10 Songs of 2021

A note before beginning: 10 is an arbitrary number, so if you’re annoyed that your favorite songs of the year are not included in this list, feel free to assume that they were the next to be included if 10 wasn’t the standard.

Brandeis celebrates global community

Last week, Brandeis culture clubs and academic groups hosted a series of events as part of Brandeis’ “I am Global Week,” an offshoot of the U.S. State Department-sponsored International Education Week. According to Brandeis’ website, “I Am Global Week” seeks to “highlight and celebrate global efforts and achievements across campus, promote integration between domestic and international students and scholars, and showcase our global community.”

Student Union charters two clubs and amends Union bylaws

The Union Senate met Nov. 21 to charter two clubs, approve a constitution change to a third and pass an election bylaw amendment.

Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team visits Brandeis

On Monday, Nov. 15, the Brandeis Journalism program hosted the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe team behind the investigative piece “Blind Spot.” “Blind Spot,” a multi-part composition, employs traditional, written articles in tandem with multimedia journalism through a 15 minute documentary. It uncovers the dangers of poor licensing regulation by government agencies and major issues within the trucking industry that allow people whose licenses should be revoked to drive freely. 

Editorial: The Justice editorial board stands in solidarity with Brandeis librarians

Situated in the middle of campus, the Goldfarb-Farber Library is an essential study and resource space. It was also one of the places on campus that got hit the hardest during the pandemic during the 2020-21 academic year. To allow for social distancing, the capacity and hours of the buildings were reduced to half of what they were before COVID-19. Enforcing COVID-19 rules presented another burden atop the responsibilities Brandeis librarians already have. 

“Squid Game” is a game-changer for cultural globalization

The popularity of Netflix’s “Squid Game” is unprecedented for a TV series in a foreign language that has reached a global audience of 111 million — “making it [their] biggest series launch ever!” The show was also ranked “No. 1 [of the most viewed content] in 90 countries” just two weeks after its release on Sept. 17, and almost two months later, the series remains on Netflix’s Top 10 list in the U.S.. 

On polarization: can we agree on anything anymore?

After months of unnecessarily painful-to-watch negotiation and infighting, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, commonly referred to as the Infrastructure Bill, passed the House and will be presented to President Joe Biden. On the surface, it seems as though most Americans, Republican and Democratic, should celebrate that $550 billion of much needed improvements to the country’s bridges, roads, public transportation, water and energy infrastructure are on the way. More surprisingly, 13 Republicans in the house joined the overwhelming Democratic majority in supporting it, an incredibly rare show of bipartisanship. 

UTC performs ‘The Wolves’

Connection, squabbling and the bond of friendship lies at the heart of "The Wolves," the latest play performed by the Brandeis Undergraduate Theater Collection, which opened Nov. 4.