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In the first track and field home meet of the season, both the men’s and women’s teams finished in third place. It was the 14th straight year that the meet, the Reggie Poyau Memorial Invitational, was hosted at the Gosman Convocation Center. The squads are off to a hot start as the 2016 to 2017 campaign has the potential to be one of the best in recent memory.
On Saturday, Brandeis participated in the first year of Hult Prize@, a more local division of the larger Hult Prize competition. This year’s topic focuses on refugee resettlement.
With President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to deport three million immigrants, students across the country are petitioning their colleges and universities to designate “sanctuary campuses” in order to protect undocumented immigrants. Now, a group of Brandeis students, faculty, staff and alumni have followed suit with an open letter to administrators.
Upon conclusion of the review it launched on Sept. 9, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a statement on Tuesday, reporting its conclusion that the issue of the Dakota Access oil pipeline warrants “additional discussion and analysis.” Proponents of the pipeline cite the creation of construction jobs, increased energy independence in the U.S. through more production of crude oil and an expected boost for the economy as reasoning for their support. However, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and climate activists protest the pipeline as a cultural and environmental threat. What do you think of the Dakota Access pipeline, and how do you think the USACE should proceed?
Climate change is real, and it is caused by human activities — but Donald Trump is employing a climate-change skeptic, Myron Ebell, as head of his Environmental Protection Agency transition team, and that will only make global warming worse.
On Saturday night, students packed into Levin Ballroom waiting for one of the University’s most anticipated events on the Brandeis campus of the year: MELA, the annual charity show put on by the Brandeis South Asian Students Association (SASA). This event promotes awareness of South Asian culture through many different performances, such as singing, dancing and modeling, followed by a delicious Indian dinner served in Upper Usdan. The show has a different theme each year; the theme this year was “Raahi, A Timeless Journey.” According to the program, “Raahi” is a Hindi word that means “traveler.” “The theme also serves as a strong world-minded recognition of the joy that culture, heritage, and past experiences can bring to people,” the text in the program explained.
The University has hired Mark Brimhall-Vargas as the first chief diversity officer and vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, University President Ronald Liebowitz wrote in an email to students, faculty and staff on Wednesday.
The University reduced its carbon footprint by approximately 8 percent from last year and used 10 percent less energy overall than fiscal year 2015, University President Ronald Liebowitz wrote in a Nov. 1 email to the campus community.
The University is “taking an approach that is not the UChicago approach” to examining free speech on campus, Student Union President David Herbstritt ’17 told the Student Union Senate at Sunday’s Senate meeting. In an executive officer report, Herbstritt said the Presidential Task Force on Free Expression currently has one undergraduate and one graduate student member and is looking for more participants.
The 2016 to 2017 National Basketball Association season began last week, and with it come several exciting storylines that fans are eager to see play out between now and June. Can the Cleveland Cavaliers defend their title? Can Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors continue to perform at a historically impressive level of eliteness? However, there are three notable storylines that every NBA fan should keep their eyes on as the season kicks in.
When Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ’93 Ph.D. first came to Brandeis, she had a variety of identities. Mother, wife and English teacher were among them. Yet she avoided thinking of herself as disabled, despite being born with a congenital difference. One of Garland-Thomson’s arms is shorter than the other, and she has a total of six fingers.
Thinking of Brandeis University, “community engagement” is probably one of the first phrases that comes to mind. You might even say that Brandeis is partially defined by its thriving and diverse community engagement opportunities. This being the case, there are few better representatives of the school than Shana Criscitiello ’18, who is majoring in Health: Science, Society and Policy. Criscitiello is a campus ambassador to Gift of Life, a marrow registry that matches potential bone marrow and stem cell donors to patients suffering from blood cancer.
“American Jewish history for me was not a job, it was a career. It defined me,” said Professor Jonathan Sarna (NEJS) who, after decades of writing, publishing and teaching, has been named a University Professor.
Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS) facilitated a discussion on racial violence in both its American and global contexts in a talk on Monday night at the Intercultural Center Swig Lounge. The event involved two components: Williams speaking on the uniqueness — or lack thereof — of the past summer’s violent incidences and students posing their own questions on how to move forward.
As the newly formed adjunct and contract-faculty union prepares for its fourth bargaining round with the University this month, officials on both sides say the negotiations thus far have been a positive experience. But the University has frozen wages and benefits for bargaining unit professors until a contract is reached, and the faculty union is publicizing part of their agenda online.
The Student Union senators convened on Sunday to charter a club and discuss forming a new Senate committee.
Allen Iverson, legendary NBA point guard best known for his 10-year career with the Philadelphia 76ers, was enshrined into basketball immortality on Saturday, joining centers Shaquille O’Neal and Yao Ming, and coach Tom Izzo in the 2016 class of Hall of Fame inductees. Iverson’s career was characterized by electrifying crossovers, jaw-dropping slam dunks and daily exhibitions of what it means to be competitive to one’s core.
On Aug. 23, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a historic 3-to-1 decision that graduate students at private universities have the right to unionize. The case, out of Columbia University, reversed a 2004 decision barring graduate student unionization at private schools. In the days since, graduate students nationwide have begun fighting to join unions, including at Yale University and Northwestern University.
On Sunday, the Senate convened to recognize a club and discuss student grievances over the recent changes in dining hours and locations. Due to Labor Day weekend, only seven senators attended.
This past year has been filled with almost daily terror attacks somewhere in the world, according to a July 15 USA Today article. However, for France in particular, there have been many tragedies, from a lorry running over more than 80 people — including children — on a national holiday to a priest who was stabbed in a Catholic church by two attackers.