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(02/09/16 4:28am)
Last Friday, the Department of Community Living proposed two changes to the University’s housing lottery system in an email to students, which would break up class year-specific housing quads and offering better housing lottery numbers to students loyal to campus housing. A survey will be sent to the student body today so that they can provide feedback on these proposals and suggest new ways of improving the housing lottery. If the student body shows approval of the proposals in the survey, the policies would be put into effect for this semester’s upcoming housing lottery.
(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 6:43am)
On Monday, the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, an independent reporting center dedicated to social justice based at the University, hosted a ’DEIS Impact event titled “Breaking the Story: How Eight Ordinary Citizens Took Down the FBI.”
(02/02/16 7:06am)
Tina Fey’s spot-on impression of former Governor Sarah Palin on the Jan. 23 episode of “Saturday Night Live” highlighted three main things about Palin. First, she has the potential to be an amazing freestyle rapper if politics doesn’t work out. How brilliant was “right wingin’ bitter clingin’ proud clingers of our guns our God and our religions”? Second, she knows exactly how to stir the American public: mentioning ISIS and promising to kick ass.
(02/02/16 5:04am)
Rosemary Rodriguez ’83 has been fascinated with film since childhood, but it wasn’t until her senior year at Brandeis that she realized that she wanted to pursue a career in filmmaking. With two feature films under her belt and numerous episodes of television shows she’s directed, Rosemary Rodriguez reflected in an interview with the Justice, on being a former addict, the challenges of being a female director, working on the set of “Jessica Jones” and her newest projects.
(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 6:27am)
“Louis D. Brandeis: An Inspiring Life,” sponsored by the University Archives & Special Collections, showcases the highlights of the former justice’s life. The exhibit in Level 2 of Goldfarb Library starts from his early childhood and moves through his time on the Supreme Court bench, ending with his enduring legacy. The University Archives & Special Collections’ Leslie Reicher, Preservation officer and Special Projects coordinator, and Surella Seelig, Archives & Special Collections Outreach librarian, curated the Goldfarb exhibit.
(01/26/16 6:21am)
According to Moroccan-born Israeli anthropologist and author André Levy, “In my eyes, anthropology, more than any other discipline in the social sciences, aspires to be present in life itself, in order to make sense of it and to give it meaning. It attempts to understand human action from an immediate closeness of which there is no comparison in the social sciences.”
(01/19/16 7:34am)
“‘Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love,’” Dean of Students Jamele Adams stated at the 11th annual Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on Monday night. The quote, which comes from the event’s namesake, was one of many shared that night by speakers and performers who wished to convey the many aspects of Black history and the Civil Rights movement that King embodied.
(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 2:10am)
This week, justArts spoke with Brian Dorfman ’16 who as part of the Senior Thesis Festival is producing “W;t,” a one-act play by Margarat Edson that draws on her experience working in a hospital.
(01/19/16 1:41am)
It’s finally 2016, and for many people the start of the New Year means it’s time to set some new goals. On Jan. 13, the Hiatt Career Center sponsored a webinar, hosted by Debbie Lipton ’83, to help give Brandeisians a jump-start on their 2016 career goals.
(01/19/16 12:38am)
Sarah Duffett ’17 is the managing director of BARD, The Brandeis Association of Rising Dramatists. BARD hosts weekly workshops, some led by professional playwrights, to which students can bring their original pieces. By creating the space for creative reflection, BARD aims to help students develop their skills as playwrights and collaborators, as well as to produce the highest quality level of material possible.
(01/12/16 4:58pm)
One day, a creature by the name of Jabba the Hutt captured Alderon’s Princess Leia, and he put her in a gold bikini, the Gold Bikini. In the eyes of many viewers, on that day, in “Star Wars: Episode VI-Return of the Jedi,” Princess Leia became a vivid sex symbol. (Okay, perhaps in the fandom and nerd circle alone.) She was considered a beautiful and yet unattainable woman (well, unless you’re Han Solo). However, today, this presentation couldn’t be any further from the truth, as fandom and misogynists alike are treating Princess Leia as anything but beautiful. Following the release of “Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakens, the seventh episode in the series, actress Carrie Fisher returned as General Leia. With brilliant and impenetrable wit and a commanding personality, Leia led many successful battles, in the original trilogy, against the Empire, putting the Force in a position to bring light to galaxy. Despite this mastery, trolls on the internet are attacking the actress’s physical appearance. SurferJoe, with the Twitter handle @surfJoeMalibu, tweeted at Fisher, “YOU DIDNT AGE WELL AND U SUCKED IN STAR WARS. IT WAS A REST HOME FLICK. WANT MY MONEY BACK @Variety @carrieffisher #StarWars @bad_robot.” A barrage of similar, abhorrent comments were aimed at Fisher, to which she responded: “Youth and beauty are not accomplishments, they’re the temporary happy by-products of time and/or DNA. Don’t hold your breath for either.”
(01/12/16 4:30am)
This week, justArts spoke with Sarai Warsoff ’16 whose senior thesis is “Uncorseted: an original dance piece.” Sarai’s thesis in the Senior Thesis Festival will explore the history and evolution of modern dance through the vocabulary of five female choreographers.
(01/12/16 5:28am)
I have beyond an abiding interest in an amalgamation of true crime, conspiracy theory, and unexplained mysteries — I hesitate to describe it truly as “true crime,” because my interests go beyond the genre, but for the purpose of this article, I will describe this broad passion as true crime, to make things easier. Far too often, I stay up until the early hours of the morning, reading the odd Wikipedia page about an unexplained disappearance or watching documentaries about famous murders. Roughly half the podcasts I listen to fall into this category, and this number increases if you include series like “Serial” or “Radiolab” that are more difficult to classify. Over winter break, I ate up Jon Krakauer’s new quasi-true crime book, “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town”. So, like any good true crime junkie, I’ve been absolutely fascinated by Netflix’s new documentary series, “Making A Murderer.”
(12/09/15 3:50am)
Students rallied outside the Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center today from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in support of the Brandeis Asian American Task Force’s initiative to create an Asian American Studies program at Brandeis. BAATF sent a letter to high-ranking administrators last week demanding a formal response from Interim President Lisa Lynch by today. No response was sent to the student body, posted online or distributed to the Justice.
(12/08/15 8:26am)
Student Union President Nyah Macklin ’16 addressed the student body at the biannual State of the Union address in the Shapiro Campus Center last night. Other members of the Student Union were also present and spoke during the event.
(12/08/15 3:02pm)
The Rose Art Museum recently announced that it is dedicating its Mildrid S. Lee Gallery as a place to foster conversation about social issues.
(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.
