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(02/09/16 2:06am)
From proposals on the Massell bridge to meeting for the first-time at alumni events, Brandeisians have been coming together since the University’s inception — and each story is different from the last. According to the Office of Alumni Relations, about 10 percent of Brandeis undergraduate alumni marry fellow alumni. In an interview with the Justice, F. Patricia Fisher, the vice president of alumni relations, explained the phenomenon affectionately called “Louie Love.”
(02/02/16 6:49am)
While the percentage of underrepresented minority applicants has increased by over three percent in the last five years, the University still falls short from the ideal, Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel announced in a presentation at the faculty meeting on Friday. A PowerPoint Interim University President Lisa Lynch showed at the same meeting revealed that while on the uptick, the University’s percentage of historically underrepresented groups in its undergraduate population is lower than peer schools like Brown University.
(01/26/16 7:49am)
The Brandeis chapter of Relay For Life held its annual fundraising event in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center on Saturday, raising over $40,000 for the American Cancer Society. The event ran from 5 p.m. on Saturday to 5 a.m. on Sunday and included performances from dance troupe KAOS Kids, a cappella group Rather Be Giraffes and comedy improv group False Advertising.
(01/26/16 7:26am)
The newly formed bargaining unit of adjunct and part-time faculty has been working on three main fronts since joining the Service Employees International Union Local 509 in December: gathering information about their constituents' main concerns, increasing the number of faculty actively involved in the union and requesting full information from the University about current members’ contracts.
(01/19/16 7:38am)
University President-elect Ronald Liebowitz addressed students for the first time in Levin Ballroom on Tuesday, expressing his excitement toward joining the University community. Liebowitz stated that he was attracted to Brandeis due to its history of inclusivity, experimentation with curricula and teaching, and interaction among undergraduate and graduate departments.
(01/19/16 6:43am)
On Jan. 1, Prof. David Engerman (HIST) began his term as the president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, a scholarly organization that focuses on the United States’ diplomatic engagements with other nations.
(01/19/16 6:36am)
Five days before a campus-wide walkout was set to occur, adjunct faculty at Northeastern University reached a contract settlement with university administrators on Wednesday.
(01/19/16 3:00am)
Boston is home to an incredibly vast collection of museums. The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are among some of the most well-known, but dozens of smaller galleries and museum spaces also fill the greater Boston area — from our own Rose Art Museum to the Fuller Craft Museum to the Addison Gallery of American Art. As a student, it can be hard to justify the price of general admission for a museum visit but, luckily, museums realize this and cater to students. Many have student discounts — the MFA, for example, is completely free for Brandeis students — and many offer free college nights. So take advantage of your time in Boston and explore its fantastic, immense and eclectic arts scene. Here are a few exhibits opening this spring that are worth a visit.
(01/19/16 3:04am)
A new club that aims to support and empower women worldwide has materialized here at Brandeis. The club is a local chapter of the GirlUp campaign of the United Nations Foundation, an organization separate from the United Nations itself that aims to connect the U.N. with outside organizations to help effect change. The goal of the Brandeis chapter is to fundraise money for the missions of the campaign and to raise awareness for the issues that women face globally through thoughtful discussions and events.
(01/19/16 12:28am)
With the riff of a piano, four comedians excitedly ran onto the stage of the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. On Saturday night, Improv Boston, an improvisational theater company based in Cambridge, came to campus to put on a hilarious comedy show. The show was hosted by Student Events and was well-attended by an equally excited crowd. The troupe played several games that engaged members of the audience, either by asking for ideas from the crowd or by calling up volunteers to the stage. The performance had the audience laughing from start to finish.
(01/12/16 5:27am)
THA 125A: “Acting for the Camera”
(01/12/16 4:46am)
The Advisory Board for the University’s Graduate Professional Studies program selected Dennis Kallelis, the Chief Security Officer at MorphoTrust USA — an electronic security company that provides identity verification services such as fingerprinting — to join its group on Jan 6th. Kallelis joined a committee that assesses GPS’s Masters in Information Security program. Other committee members include representatives from Intel, Harvard University and Sonatype.
(12/18/15 11:17pm)
Editor's note: this article has been updated in the January 12 issue of the Justice.
(12/08/15 7:20am)
Last Wednesday, a group of scholars met to discuss the implications of the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris on the Islamic State’s future military and recruitment tactics. The event, which was organized by the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, was titled “ISIS after Paris.”
(12/08/15 4:39am)
A beat from a single drum, an atsimevu, preceded an onslaught of rhythm from the students of Brandeis’s Ghanaian drum and dance ensemble in Friday night’s biannual “Fafali: Music and Dance from Ghana.” The class showcased the Ghanaian dance-drumming they learned this past semester in a spirited night of drumming, dancing and singing. The concert in the Slosberg Recital Hall also featured the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society and the Brandeis Spirit Band.
(12/07/15 10:38pm)
The men and women’s fencing team hosted the Brandeis Invitational this past Sunday as the men recorded a 3-2 record, while the women finished 2-3. The tournament consisted of six rounds with competitors Johns Hopkins University, Drew University, Cornell University, St. John’s University, Yale University, Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(11/24/15 8:42am)
Students began occupying the hallways in the Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center leading to the President’s Office in a sit-in on Friday afternoon that has been ongoing since. The students do not plan on leaving the building until Interim President Lisa Lynch and the Board of Trustees develop an action plan for addressing the 13 demands issued by the sit-in’s organizers on Thursday, who call themselves Concerned Students 2015 and are referring to their sit-in as Ford Hall 2015. This title invokes an 11-day occupation held in January 1969 in Ford and Sydeman Halls by black students who presented a list of 10 demands to the administration.
(11/24/15 3:14am)
On a warm fall afternoon inside a classroom in Waltham High School (WHS), six high school students talk about their own petri-dish experiments using sunscreen and yeast. These students are members of the school’s newly recognized after-school science club, which strives to bring a unique approach to high school science curriculums.
(11/17/15 9:30am)
Hundreds of students, faculty and administrators marched from the Rabb Steps to the Shapiro Campus Center atrium last Thursday to demonstrate solidarity with student activists at the University of Missouri, Yale University and other universities currently protesting institutional racism in higher education. The march was organized the night before by both graduate students and undergraduates, including members of the Brandeis Black Students Organization and Heller School programs.
(11/17/15 8:36am)
The Student Union held a special election from 12 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. yesterday to fill two open seats on the Allocations Board, as announced in an email from Student Union Secretary Shuying Liu ’16 to the student body when voting opened on Sunday night.
