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Brandeis Department of Athletics Department Administrator Vanessa Cox was killed in a car accident on Thursday night in New Hampshire. She was 31.
In 1939, during the siege of Poland, Adolph Hitler gave a speech expressing his right to exterminate the Polish. He justified mass murder thusly: “I have placed my death-head formations in readiness—for the present only in the East—with orders to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
If you have ever been to North Carolina, then you have been to a state that once held the name “Klansville, U.S.A.” Nicknamed “Klansville” for its overwhelming Ku Klux Klan membership, North Carolina became a state whose Klan population surprisingly outnumbered those in all the other southern states combined.
I am a senior at Brandeis University, grateful for the privilege to study in Waltham for three and a half years to date. At first, I was hesitant to join the Brandeis community—I never visited before arriving (late) for orientation my first year and did not bother attending most of the “mandatory” orientation programming.
At the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Wednesday, the Board discussed issues of free speech on campus, the forthcoming draft of a financial and strategic plan and online education, according to a draft statement from undergraduate representatives Mohamed Sidique ’15 and Grady Ward ’16.
The men and women’s swimming and diving teams completed a sweep of Bridgewater State University on Senior Day this past Saturday. During their final home meet of the season, the men won 157-97 while the women walked away with a 160-125 victory, the squad’s first home victory of the season.
Following the leak of faculty emails from the restricted “Concerned” Listserv this past summer and University President Frederick Lawrence’s response to the comments in a July 28, 2014 statement, some faculty members have expressed concerns regarding freedom of speech on campus.
The Albert Einstein Society has selected Stanley Deser, the Ancell Professor of Physics, Emeritus, along with Charles Misner of the University of Maryland, to receive the prestigious Einstein Medal for their work on Einstein’s theory of general relativity, according to a Jan. 14 BrandeisNOW press release.
“Our training camps are open; so are our battlefields. Come on youths of Islam! Let’s take Baghdad together.” So expresses the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in one of the group’s many online recruitment videos. This call to fight has resonated with people from all around the world as the Islamic State calls Muslims to serve Allah. Unlike its predecessors, the Islamic State pervades the Internet and therefore possesses the ability to grow its cult-like terrorist organization at an exponential speed. According to Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at the University College London and the Norwegian Business School, the majority of cults begin by inducting members and remaking them as one of them. This evolution begins the second someone hits play.
About 250 volunteers packed Levin Ballroom yesterday, putting together 12,000 meals for the homeless and taking part in an Educational Justice Fair for Brandeis’ fifth annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Interfaith Service.
Beginning on Feb. 3, a new group’s weekly meetings on campus will provide a student-based support system for survivors of sexual assault.
The New England Patriots booked their trip to the team’s sixth Super Bowl appearance with a 45-7 dismantling of the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night.
After almost nine years as the Catholic chaplain and coordinator of the Multifaith Chaplaincy at Brandeis, the Rev. Walter Cuenin has left the University for unspecified health reasons, according to a campus-wide email from Dean of Students Jamele Adams.
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America elected four players to the National Baseball Hall of Fame last Tuesday, enshrining pitchers Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz and second baseman Craig Biggio in Cooperstown.
Dean of Student Financial Services Peter Giumette will retire at the end of December after 20 years at Brandeis. Upon his departure, the Division of Students and Enrollment will experience a number of structural changes.
In recent weeks, Brandeis students have raised their voices along with countless others across the country in protest of the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and the subsequent lack of grand jury indictment for each of their killers, who were both police officers. Brown and Garner have become symbols of the many other black men and women in America killed by unnecessary police violence.
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The semester is winding down, and work is ramping up. Once finals end, though, you’ll have earned a much-deserved break. The nominations for the 2015 Grammy Awards were released on Friday. This gives you ample time between the end of finals and when the show airs on Feb. 8 to brush up on your music knowledge. Since this is my last column for now, as I will be abroad in Dublin next semester, this Grammy guide is my goodbye present to you.
Many artistically-minded students choose Brandeis for its breadth of theater opportunities, performances and productions. Brandeis Ensemble Theater’s production of Quickies, a series of student-written one-act plays and sketches, definitely falls into these ideas of opportunites and inclusive theater productions.
RHYTHMIC ROUNDUP: The “Fafali: Music and Dance from Ghana” class, joined by two guest musicians, performed their end-of-semester show on Sunday.