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The sweltering May heat of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center did not deter the Class of 2022’s enthusiasm for being the first in-person Commencement ceremony since 2019.
Even amidst the bustle of the end of the semester, Brandeis students and faculty found time to get involved in the pro-choice movement after the leaked draft from the Supreme Court revealed a potential overturn of the landmark case Roe v. Wade.
Earlier this semester, B Connect celebrated the one-year anniversary of its launch with a party on campus, providing merch and cupcakes for the students and alumni who joined to celebrate a year of B Connect. This event was both a celebration and a way to increase student and alumni awareness of the new online network in the hopes of encouraging more members of the Brandeis community to get involved.
In the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests against systemic racism and police brutality erupted across the globe in response to the murder of George Floyd and other high profile police killings of Black people in the United States, Sonali Anderson ’22 began thinking about ways to make change happen on an institutional level at Brandeis.
Daniel Ricciardo started his Formula One career as a bright talent, but in the back marker Hispania Racing Team (HRT), he was never afforded the machinery that his talent could materialize into meaningful results. In the following year, he was moved to the Toro Rosso team, which at the time was not a team that could compete for podiums and wins. While in Toro Rosso, however, he scored a handful of points and put in performances that caught the attention of Christian Horner and Helmut Marko, who were and are the team principal and manager of Red Bull Racing, respectively. During this period, Red Bull was in its third year of dominance over the sport with then three-time world champion Sebastian Vettel and proven driver Mark Webber at the wheel of their dominant RB-8 car.
Over the past academic year, at least 15 administrators and department heads have left their positions or have announced that they will be leaving soon to pursue work elsewhere.
Brandeis Earth Week, presented by the Office of Sustainability and the Center for Spiritual Life, was part of an international effort to focus on environmental issues. Earth Week is an extension of Earth Day, which occurs every year on April 22. According to the Earth Day website, the event was founded in 1970 by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) who wanted “to infuse the energy of student anti-war protests with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution.” In conjunction with Davis Hayes, a young activist at the time, Nelson and Hayes organized a teach-in on college campuses on April 22, 1970. The movement grew until 1990 when Earth Day went international, with 200 million people in 141 countries participating.
Sen. Eric Lesser (D-MA) visited Brandeis on Thursday, April 7, at an event hosted by Brandeis Democrats to talk about his work as a state senator and his campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.
On Thursday, April 7, Brandeis’ Take Back the Night returned as an in-person event for the first time since 2019. A global movement with a long history, Take Back the Night is an annual stand against sexual violence which has taken place all over the world for decades, and has been held on campus for over 15 years. Hosted as a collaborative event by the Prevention, Advocacy and Resource Center; the Intersectional Feminist Coalition; the Black Action Plan; the Gender and Sexuality Center; the Disabled Students’ Network; and students from other organizations, the event began as an evening march from the Light of Reason to the Rabb steps.
Aries: This is a big week in astrology, Aries! For the first time in over 150 years, this Tuesday, Jupiter is joining Neptune in Pisces. Now with Jupiter (the planet of intellectual ideas and luck) and Neptune (the planet of dreams and illusions) meeting in dreamy Pisces in your 12th house (which rules spirituality and the subconscious), you are in for a dreamy week guaranteed! If you’ve been waiting for a spiritual awakening, this might be it. Keep an eye out for any spiritual messages or “coincidences” this week. With Venus and Mars joining the party in Pisces later this week, you may find yourself much more introspective than usual. Take this energy and roll with it! Maybe you’ll even learn some new things about yourself along the way.
A March 11, 2020 email from University President Ron Liebowitz stated that the last day of in-person instruction would be March 20 as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide. Over the past two years, sports have changed drastically, and this week, the Justice spoke with some junior and senior athletes who experienced Brandeis sports before and during the ongoing global pandemic.
On Friday, April 1, Brandeis announced the speakers and honorary degree recipients for the 2022 commencement ceremony. The ceremony will take place on May 22 and will be held at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA) H’17 will address the Class of 2022 at the University’s 71st commencement exercises. Aerospace engineer and mathematician Christine Mann Darden and David Harris, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, will both be awarded honorary degrees.
Peyton Gillespie ’25 did not initially intend on running for Student Union president. But, when he found it difficult to find someone to run on a ticket with him running for vice president, he decided to step up and take on the challenge. He asked the Executive Board to help find a vice president, and someone suggested Lia Bergen ’25, who Gillespie knew from his time serving on the senate last semester. He immediately reached out to Bergen, and within ten minutes they were at Massell Pond deciding to run on a ticket together.
After a disappointing start to the NBA season, the Boston Celtics have been tearing up the league with their impenetrable defense and high-powered scoring. No matter what, this season was going to be much different in Boston as they ushered in a new coach following the promotion of former head coach Brad Stevens to president of basketball operations after long-time executive Danny Ainge’s retirement. Ime Udoka was named as the head coach in late June, and this was a scary adjustment as Stevens had shown his elite coaching ability in the NBA.
The year was 2019. Alex Dainis ’11 had just graduated from Stanford University with a doctorate degree in genetics. Many of her peers stayed in academia to continue their research, and others joined the biotech industry. Instead of taking one of those traditional paths, Alex took a leap of faith and started making science videos on YouTube full-time. She also started her own video production company and named it, in classic biology nerd fashion, Helicase Media, after a protein essential for DNA replication in cells. At this point, she had been making science videos on YouTube since 2012, a year after she graduated from Brandeis. Now, she just needed to make it a real job.
Prof. Sabine von Mering (GECS) exclaimed that when the Center for German and European Studies first began planning the “Contextualizing the Ukraine Crisis” webinar set to take place on March 22, they were not expecting the countries to be at war. Following Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, however, von Mering continued “we now find ourselves in the fourth week of war, with thousands dead, millions fleeing, and numerous hard economic losses.” In order to fully understand this crisis, it is important to look at it from a political and economic context and evaluate Germany’s crucial role in all of this.
In 1988, table tennis, also known as Ping-Pong, became an Olympic sport, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. This sport is played on a flat table with two halves divided by a net in the middle. The objective is to hit the ball over the net so that it bounces off the opponent's side of the table in a way that cannot be returned.
The 2022 season of Formula One has started with a bang. The 10 teams had gathered at the Bahrain International Circuit during the weekend of March 18–20 to start the face-off towards the World Championship.
Standing atop Fellows Garden with the sun to his back, a bronze Justice Louis D. Brandeis watches over the campus bearing his name. It is a heroic statue, triumphant even. The Justice withstands an adverse wind, his gaze fixed on the heavens like the statues of classical antiquity. It also resembles the numerous statues of the American South which depict Confederate icons in similarly honorific poses. Like them, Justice Brandeis helped advance caustic ideology tied to many of the 20th-century’s tragedies.
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