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As the Major League Baseball spring training season begins in the South, the top teams from around the league are still looking for last minute advantages over division rivals.
Often, a fine line exists between forgiveness and acceptance of someone’s wrongdoings at one’s own detriment. On the one hand, as a proverb frequently attributed to Buddha goes, “Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” On the other hand, holding people accountable for their actions is often necessary.
While studying abroad in Ghana as an undergraduate student at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Prof. Carina Ray (AAAS) wanted to understand more about her own heritage as well as figure out why race seemed to operate differently in various places. She was particularly interested in how what it means to be black is different in a place like Ghana than in a place like the United States.
Last semester, protests and rallies against racial inequity pervaded university campuses across the nation. At Brandeis, the Ford Hall 2015 movement demanded — among other things — that the University admit more students of color, hire more faculty of color and require yearly diversity and inclusion workshops for all members of the staff and faculty.
This article has been updated in the March 1 issue of the Justice.
On Thursday, several students and faculty gathered in the International Lounge in Usdan. David Hackett Fischer (HIST) and Paul Jankowski (HIST) came to give a discussion about the process of historical writing. This event was an installment of the “Writers @ Work” series and was co-sponsored by the English Department. Lisa Pannella, the academic administrator of the department, joined them in their discussion.
On Thursday night, business-world leaders Nurys Camargo, Paul Francisco and Lynne Katzmann met for a large-group panel discussion, followed by a living-room style discussion in which attendees could converse with the speakers, as part of the fifth annual ’DEIS Impact celebration. During the event, “The Business Case for Social Impact,” the speakers emphasized the need for people of color and women in corporate America and in leadership roles like their own.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
THA 125A: “Acting for the Camera”
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.
Editor's note: this article has been updated in the January 12 issue of the Justice.