Search Results
Use the field below to perform an advanced search of The Justice archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query.
(05/23/22 10:00am)
Elizabeth Hilliard ’22 is a singer and songwriter, and now she has officially added writer, creator, and actress to her accomplishments. Elizabeth, who goes by Lizzie, created and wrote the musical “The Pocket Girls,” which tells the story of two sets of sisters and the experiences they have in a small cottage. The musical explores femininity and sisterhood and the bonds they all create. It is a coming of age story inspired by books like “Little Women,” “The Secret Garden,” and “Anne of Green Gables.” While Lizzie has been exposed to music from a young age, she has been writing and creating her own music for over ten years.
(05/23/22 10:00am)
Here we are again — another one of Irish author Sally Rooney’s restrained, emotionally-knotty novels has been adapted into a miniseries. This time it’s her debut book, “Conversations with Friends,” published in 2017. The 12-episode adaptation, which dropped on Hulu on May 15, stars Alison Oliver and Joe Alwyn as leading characters Frances and Nick, respectively.
(05/23/22 10:00am)
The Feldbergs, founding donors of the University whose gifts helped Brandeis emerge as a university in 1948, made a donation towards renovating the Feldberg Lounge in the Hassenfeld Conference Center. The Feldberg Lounge, built in 1955, was the first space on campus the Feldbergs funded. The lounge, adjacent to the Stein, underwent renovations beginning this past October and was opened to students in April.
(05/23/22 10:00am)
Amidst the Russia-Ukraine war, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy took time to speak with members of the Association of American Universities about the future of the Ukrainian education system. More specifically, he discussed how Ukrainians and members of higher education institutions in America can help rebuild and support higher education in Ukraine.
(05/23/22 1:00pm)
Earlier this semester, B Connect celebrated the one-year anniversary of its launch with a party on campus, providing merch and cupcakes for the students and alumni who joined to celebrate a year of B Connect. This event was both a celebration and a way to increase student and alumni awareness of the new online network in the hopes of encouraging more members of the Brandeis community to get involved.
(05/23/22 1:00pm)
In the summer of 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests against systemic racism and police brutality erupted across the globe in response to the murder of George Floyd and other high profile police killings of Black people in the United States, Sonali Anderson ’22 began thinking about ways to make change happen on an institutional level at Brandeis.
(05/03/22 10:00am)
The Festival of the Creative Arts was founded in 1952 by Leonard Bernstein, who not only was a member of the Brandeis faculty, but also a renowned musician. He was a composer, pianist, educator, author, and humanitarian. He is probably best known for his work in musical theater, particularly in “West Side Story.” However, more so than his knowledge and great achievements, he strived to make the arts visible and accessible to all, hence the Festival of the Creative Arts. He called it “a moment of inquiry for the whole world when civilization looks at itself, seeking a key to the future.”
(05/03/22 10:00am)
On March 14, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Carol Fierke sent an email to University faculty announcing that, in order to strategically use the University’s resources, she and University President Ron Liebowitz had begun a review of Brandeis doctoral programs. In that email, Fierke mentioned the gathering and sharing of information, which the administration expects will result in “some PhD programs… be[ing] enlarged [with] others be[ing] put on hiatus.” Though this has been the only official, written communication from the University regarding this process, more information including the fact that this plan has been in development for quite some time has been disseminated through other channels.
(05/03/22 5:48pm)
Dear President Ron Liebowitz, Provost Carol Fierke, Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration Stewart Uretsky, Vice President Raymond Ou, Assistant Vice President Shelby Harris, Chair of the Board of Trustees Lisa Kranc:
(05/03/22 10:00am)
Harvest Table Culinary Group was unanimously voted in by the Dining Services Request for Proposals Committee to become Brandeis’ new food vendor, according to an April 14 email from Vice President of Campus Planning and Operations Lois Stanley. The new contract will begin in July 2022, and Harvest Table’s arrival on campus is eagerly anticipated by students, who have become disenchanted with the current vendor and catering giant, Sodexo.
(05/03/22 10:00am)
Brandeis Earth Week, presented by the Office of Sustainability and the Center for Spiritual Life, was part of an international effort to focus on environmental issues. Earth Week is an extension of Earth Day, which occurs every year on April 22. According to the Earth Day website, the event was founded in 1970 by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) who wanted “to infuse the energy of student anti-war protests with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution.” In conjunction with Davis Hayes, a young activist at the time, Nelson and Hayes organized a teach-in on college campuses on April 22, 1970. The movement grew until 1990 when Earth Day went international, with 200 million people in 141 countries participating.
(05/03/22 10:00am)
Now that the MLB regular season has been going on for some time, it seems time to look over some of the injuries that the New York Yankee’s athletes have faced thus far in 2022.
(05/03/22 10:00am)
When Marta Kauffman ’78 H’20 enrolled as a student at Brandeis, there was no way for her to know where her four years at the University would take her. Since her time at Brandeis, she has amassed Emmy nominations and critical acclaim, but before she was the co-creator of the hit television series “Friends” and “Grace and Frankie,” among others, she was a student, figuring out who she was and what she wanted to do with her life.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
This semester, Prof. Antonella Di Lillo (COSI) deployed a new academic tool in the core computer science class, “Data Structures and the Fundamentals of Computing,” COSI 21A. The tool, known as DALPy, formerly Cormen-Lib, was built and published as open-source software by two students, Eitan Joseph ’22 and Chami Lamelas ’22.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
The Student Union Senate announced a major change to this semester’s State of the Union address and Midnight Buffet. The Senate also chartered two clubs, Brandeis Impact Club and Salvation International Prayer Youth Ministry.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
The University announced that its COVID-19 protocols will be updated again in an April 11 email to the Brandeis community. The University’s new policies have been revised to “more closely align with the CDC guidance for quarantine for community members who are asymptomatic and fully vaccinated, or recently COVID-recovered with a testing exemption, who are identified as close contacts,” the email said. These new policies were officially implemented on April 12. Protocols are the same for individuals who are not fully vaccinated.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
On Wednesday, April 6, posts containing a link to a document titled “Letter to Administration Addressing CA Meal Plan Compensation” began circulating throughout the Brandeis community on social media. The document was initially posted by Community Advisors, who asked fellow students to sign and share the petition. As of Monday afternoon, less than a week later, the petition had accumulated 555 non-CA student signatures. In addition, the document contained signatures from 80 current and incoming CAs; over 50 faculty, staff, and alumni; and over three dozen parents.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
“Aside from art being just an expression of your ideas and expression of who you are and what you think the world is about, I think it’s just also a connection tool,” Jonathan Joasil ’22 said when asked how he defines art during our April 7th Zoom interview. Jonathan is a Black painter and visual artist whose work has been featured in the senior exhibition at the Dreitzer Art Gallery in Spingold Theater.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
On Thursday, April 7, Brandeis’ Take Back the Night returned as an in-person event for the first time since 2019. A global movement with a long history, Take Back the Night is an annual stand against sexual violence which has taken place all over the world for decades, and has been held on campus for over 15 years. Hosted as a collaborative event by the Prevention, Advocacy and Resource Center; the Intersectional Feminist Coalition; the Black Action Plan; the Gender and Sexuality Center; the Disabled Students’ Network; and students from other organizations, the event began as an evening march from the Light of Reason to the Rabb steps.
(04/12/22 10:00am)
Aries: This is a big week in astrology, Aries! For the first time in over 150 years, this Tuesday, Jupiter is joining Neptune in Pisces. Now with Jupiter (the planet of intellectual ideas and luck) and Neptune (the planet of dreams and illusions) meeting in dreamy Pisces in your 12th house (which rules spirituality and the subconscious), you are in for a dreamy week guaranteed! If you’ve been waiting for a spiritual awakening, this might be it. Keep an eye out for any spiritual messages or “coincidences” this week. With Venus and Mars joining the party in Pisces later this week, you may find yourself much more introspective than usual. Take this energy and roll with it! Maybe you’ll even learn some new things about yourself along the way.
