Founder of the Rose passes away at 91
(09/27/14 9:58pm)
Sam Hunter, the founder and inaugural director of the Rose Art Museum, passed away on July 27 in Princeton, N.J.
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Vaccari announced as volleyball coach
(09/27/14 9:28pm)
New volleyball coach Alesia Vaccari has a simple game plan for the Judges in her first year on the job and is setting a high bar for a successful season.
Boston Red Sox revamp team for next season with a bevy of trades and expensive international signing
(09/27/14 9:25pm)
The Boston Red Sox made a record signing last week by signing outfielder Rusney Castillo to a seven-year deal worth $72.5 million dollars.
Squad seeks to improve upon last year’s results
(09/27/14 9:24pm)
Midway through last September, outside hitter Liz Hood ’15 recorded her 1,000th career kill for the women’s volleyball team, a high point of the year. Even though the team sputtered to a 10-25 record overall and went just 1-6 against University Athletic Association opponents, the Judges will look to a returning core of seniors and a new coach to bring them back to winning ways.
EDITORIAL: Protect professors’ free speech rights
(09/27/14 9:06pm)
This July, many Brandeisians may have been surprised to see a fellow classmate, Daniel Mael ’15, publishing the contents of a long-running faculty listserv on Breitbart.com—the springboard for an outpouring of media attention from online publications such as the Washington Free Beacon, the Daily Caller and TruthRevolt. Selections from the “Concerned” faculty listserv, in which professors commented on subjects ranging from Israel to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s potential commencement appearance, contained some offensive and inflammatory remarks. In a letter to faculty in response to these remarks, University President Frederick Lawrence characterized the remarks as “anti-Semitic epithets, personal attacks, denigration of the Catholic faith, and the use of crude and vulgar terms in discussions about Israel.” Over the summer, students, alumni and parents proceeded to mull the question: To what level of respectful discourse must we hold faculty?
Legendary Professor Passes
(09/27/14 8:57pm)
Brandeis Prof. Emeritus Allen Grossman Ph.D. ’60 (ENG) passed away in Chelsea, Mass. on Friday, June 27 at the age of 82 as a result of Alzheimer’s complications.
University hosts conference on opioid abuse in New England
(09/27/14 5:32pm)
Amid what some experts are calling epidemic levels of opioid abuse in New England, researchers at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management have joined forces with several state governors to search for a solution.
Pop Culture
(09/26/14 6:37pm)
Welcome to summer. The weather is hotter, the drinks colder and you have a lot more free time. In pop culture land, this means blockbuster movie franchises, music festivals and often mediocre television.
Brenner and McCarthy given All-UAA second team honors
(09/26/14 6:22pm)
On May 13, baseball utility player Kyle Brenner ’15 and infielder Tom McCarthy ’15 were named to the All-University Athletic Association second team for their outstanding seasons this year in conference play.
Granoff and Cooke to play at NCAA Championships this week
(09/26/14 6:21pm)
For the first time in 20 years, a member of the men’s tennis team will be competing at the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Women fall to top seed in ECAC Tournament
(09/26/14 6:19pm)
The second-seeded softball squad ended its season on May 10, losing 7-4 to the first-seeded Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the elimination round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament. The Judges had just come off a 3-0 loss to the number three seed Smith College earlier in the day. With the losses, the Judges finish their season sporting a 21-18 overall record.
Kim leaves volleyball team for job as assistant athletic director
(09/26/14 6:15pm)
Women’s volleyball coach Michelle Kim was promoted to assistant athletic director on May 1, a move announced by Assistant Vice President for Health and Wellness and Director of Athletics and Recreation Sheryl Sousa ’90 in a press release by Brandeis Athletics later the same day.
Judges close year with strong meets
(09/26/14 6:14pm)
The men’s and women’s track and field teams closed their seasons with strong performances at various meets over the past week and a half, with two competitors earning a bid to next weekend’s NCAA Championships and a third falling just short of a bid.
Reader Commentary
(09/25/14 1:05am)
Controversial honorees are a boon
Deepening American history
(09/25/14 12:34am)
History is subjective—we learn what we do about our country’s past because someone else, some nebulous authoritative force, decided it was worth recording and knowing. Who gets to make these highly political decisions about our collective national memory? Part of the answer is found in the work of historians like Alan Taylor Ph.D. ’86, who devote their lives to bringing light to what actually might have happened in our nation’s history.
EDITORIAL: Welcome African Diaspora hirees
(09/23/14 5:33am)
Last March, the University announced its hiring of two new professors, as well as a Florence Levy Kay fellow, as part of a cluster-hire initiative to improve studies on the African Diaspora. Prof. Jasmine Johnson joined the African and Afro-American Studies department and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program, while Prof. Gregory Childs joined the History department. Additionally, Prof. Derron Wallace (ED) was appointed to the Florence Levy Kay Fellowship as part of his postdoctoral studies. This board commends the recent hires, which signify Brandeis’ commitment to interdisciplinary and comprehensive learning in this critical field of study, as well as the University’s taking of a proactive role in a growing field.
Complaints about Sodexo policies do not deserve full protest
(09/23/14 4:08am)
In my high school, everyone loved to hate English 11 and Advanced Placement United States History. By “loved to hate,” I mean that people made extreme efforts to go out of their way to complain about those classes. In fact, people often spent more time complaining about the workload from the classes than they did actually doing the work. I was convinced that APUSH and English 11 were the worst classes I could possible take, a year before I was even eligible to take them.
Revolutionizing health care
(09/23/14 2:23am)
The Candy Crush Saga mobile app, in which players match colored candies with one another, is simple enough for a preschooler to play. Inconceivably, the app has been recently valued at $7.6 billion according to a March 12 New York Times article. Why is a mind-numbingly boring task so addictive to the human brain?
History of motion
(09/23/14 2:14am)
Marcus Book Store is the oldest black-owned book store in the nation. Owned by Raye and Julian Richardson, the store’s name pays homage to Marcus Garvey, a charismatic proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement. Located in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, a historically black neighborhood, the book store has long been an inspiration for civic engagement groups pursuing racial equality. The bookstore also has been home to one of Brandeis’ newest professors.
Fulbright grant winners announced
(09/22/14 1:55am)
The University announced on May 13 in a BrandeisNOW article that nine Brandeis undergraduates, graduates and recent alumni have been awarded grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The article also acknowledged that a Brandeis student was named a Goldwater Scholar and yet another was selected as the University’s second-ever Gates Cambridge Scholar.