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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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Sunday night in the Slosberg Music Center, the Brandeis Improvisation Collective’s fall concert made people tap their feet, nod their heads and laugh to the music.
A young woman sits at a piano while her mother rapidly types the words she sings. It seems like the set-up of a sweet domestic scene, but it is anything but. That was the general theme of “The Contest,” Hillel Theater Group’s fall semester show, which was put on in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend.
The women’s basketball team captured the Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament, presented by the Park Lodge Hotel Group, to help head coach Carol Simon earn her 400th career victory. To win the title, the Judges defeated Eastern Nazarene College 70-54 on Saturday afternoon and was victorious by a score 81-38 over Mount Holyoke College. The title was the team’s third in four years.
Over 200 adjunct and contract faculty members have signed an official petition to form a union, which was submitted to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday. The 230 faculty members are seeking to join the Service Employees International Union Local 509 through their Faculty Forward division, which represents non-tenure track faculty at colleges and universities throughout the Boston area.
Kim Conaty, the assistant curator of drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was appointed curator for the Rose Art Museum on Nov. 3. Conaty will plan exhibitions, interpret the Rose’s collection and evaluate potential exhibitions for the museum, when she joins the Rose’s staff in December.
On Thursday, Brandeis’s South Eastern Asian Club and the United Against Inequities in Disease Chapter at Brandeis discussed how mental illness is stigmatized in Southeast Asian families, at an event that was titled “Conflicts in Southeast Asia.”
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s Nov. 4 assassination, three Brandeis scholars lectured on and later discussed his legacy as a peacemaker.
Professors and administrators raised concerns with the ongoing faculty unionization movement at Friday’s faculty meeting. Other topics included the results of the sexual assault climate survey and campus sustainability initiatives.
A fully packed room in Mandel 303 on Thursday evening saw a dramatic one-woman performance and a featured talk back with actress Nancy E. Carroll and Prof.Shulamit Reinharz (SOC). Carroll read a translated adaptation of Savyon Liebrecht’s play, “The Strawberry Girl.”
Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum Christopher Bedford announced on Friday that collector, businessman and author Stephen M. Salny has promised to donate 48 works to the museum.
JOINING THE ROSE: Kim Conaty has been appointed as the Curator of the Rose Art Museum. She plans to pursue education initiatives and a collection evaluation.
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” was performed in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend, put on by Brandeis’s Shakespeare and classical theatre company Hold Thy Peace. It was set in modern Boston and western Massachusetts rather than in medieval France. The production gave a comedic, if somewhat confusing performance.
On Thursday, Scott Silver ’84, Managing Director at Citigroup, Head of FX Investor and Cross Asset Sales in North America and the FXLM Quantitative Investment Strategy Team, gave advice to business students on how to do well while working in the business industry.