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In Focus: Spotlighting creative changemaker Shelley Polanco

(04/02/24 10:00am)

Shelley Polanco ’24, a double major in African and African American Studies and Politics, is an Afro-Latina multi-hyphenate creative. Since her youth, she has always been drawn to creating change. Whether through poetry and creative writing or photography and cinema, she is always uplifting and building a legacy that visualizes people of color. Today, Polanco runs a freelance photography business called Shot by Shell and is embracing other mediums of artful expression.


Lawsuit questions transgender student-athletes

(03/26/24 10:00am)

In January 2022, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Governors updated the “transgender student-athlete participation policy” that governs the rules and regulations in the world of college sports. This updated policy puts NCAA student-athlete participants in line with the Olympic Movement, which outlines an approach that is different from sport to sport. This approach “preserves opportunity for transgender student-athletes while balancing fairness, inclusion and safety for all who compete,” according to the NCAA website.


Everything that happened at the Australian Grand Prix

(03/26/24 10:00am)

The Australian Grand Prix took place on March 24, and this Formula 1 race is the most exciting one of the season. The course, which is 58 laps, is located in Melbourne, Australia. Usually, the most action and drama during race weekend takes place during the actual event. While this held true in Melbourne, there was no shortage of drama before race day. 


Jury Duty 3/26/2024: Hana Bean ’27

(03/26/24 10:00am)

“Jury Duty” is a weekly column that spotlights different Brandeis student-athletes. Please email sports@thejustice.org if you would like to nominate someone. We hope to bridge the gap between student-athletes and non student-athletes by highlighting relatable content to make the community feel more approachable. If you see a highlighted athlete around campus, introduce yourself! Or head to Gosman and cheer them on.  


Student Union proposes significant changes following recent constitutional review

(03/26/24 10:00am)

On March 25, Student Union Secretary Carol S. Kornworcel ’26 sent an email to the Brandeis undergraduate student body to announce the upcoming Student Union constitutional review, a process that only occurs once every three years. The Student Union evaluated their current constitution and bylaws to “make changes to reflect the current needs of Brandeis students,” Kornworcel wrote. Last week, the Student Union voted to approve proposed updates to the Constitution. On Wednesday, March 27, all Brandeis undergraduate students will receive a ballot in their email to vote on the proposed changes.


Tiziana Dearing and Harleen Singh explore the power of conversation and community

(03/26/24 10:00am)

Tiziana Dearing lent her unique perspective as a former professor, non-profit executive and current radio host to the Brandeis community on Wednesday, March 20 in an event sponsored by the Women's Studies Research Center. She was joined in discussion by Prof. Harleen Singh (WGS), a Brandeis professor of Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexality Studies as well as the Director of the Women Studies Research Center. Singh introduced Dearing as a “public voice for good” and a “lifelong student” of the world, while Dearing jokingly described her own career path as “Forrest Gumping” her way through life. Their discussion, while structured as a profile on Dearing’s professional career, found substance in evaluating the role of religious faith in her work and assessing the current climate of the American education system. 



Professor Chris Suh explains how American geopolitics inform Asian race-relations

(03/26/24 10:00am)

On March 22, the University welcomed Chris Suh, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, to give a talk about his research and findings for his 2023 book: "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion.” The lecture was called “Between the ‘American Century’ and the ‘Asian Century’: Toward a New Paradigm for Understanding Racial Inequality,” with Jenny Factor and Sungkyung Cho co-hosting the meeting on Zoom. Factor and Cho are both candidates for doctorates in philosophy at Brandeis.





Navigating Your Next Move: The Ultimate Brandeis Housing Guide

(03/26/24 10:00am)

Now that housing selection for the 2024-25 school year has passed, Brandeis students may be wondering what the next year will look like depending on where they’re living. This week, the board would like to provide the student body with an honest take on what the available housing options are like, as well as some advice for rising sophomores. A lot of housing options on campus are not always as bad as people say. 



March Madness men’s tournament overview

(03/26/24 10:00am)

According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association's official website, 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 is the probability that one creates a perfect bracket for March Madness. The NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament features 68 teams in a single-game elimination style. These teams are ranked accordingly by a committee on “Selection Sunday,” which took place on March 17, 2024 this year. The teams are then split off into four regionals: South, East, West and Midwest. Here, we take a look at how teams have fared thus far in the first round of the men’s tournament. 




‘Dialogue & Action’: War, Law and Civilians

(03/26/24 10:00am)

What role does international law play in how states conduct themselves in times of war? Is international law respected or even an authentic reflection of human morality? Questions like these were discussed in the fourth installment of the Dialogue & Action series, titled War, Law, and Civilians. The talk was hosted by Northeastern University and took place virtually on March 13. Dialogue & Action is a series made to model constructive dialogue and is a collaboration between nine universities including Brandeis. 


Students call for the charges of “Brandeis seven” to be dropped

(03/26/24 10:00am)

On March 22 at 4:00 p.m., the de-chartered Brandeis chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Revolutionary Student Organization rallied on campus. According to a collaborative post on the SJP and RSO Instagram profiles, the rally’s main goals were to call on Brandeis to: “1. Request that the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office drop all charges against the seven people arrested while dispersing from the Nov. 10 rally,” “2. Provide financial transparency on all its expenditures and investments” and “3. Stop supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people by engaging with the Zionist occupation’s economy and institutions, and representing dissent on campus.” Additionally, during the rally, members of the organizations presented a “Petition to End Brandeis University’s Attacks on Free Speech.”


Brandeis Chungles reveals the creators behind the memes

(03/26/24 10:00am)

For the last two years, the student-run Instagram meme page @brandeis.chungles, commonly referred to as just “Chungles,” has graced the Brandeis community with memes relating to campus life behind a veil of anonymity. Displayed in the account's bio was the message “Face reveal at 1,000 followers.” The masterminds behind the memes would be revealed when that threshold was met. 


Unearthing Hozier’s ‘Unheard’ gems

(03/26/24 10:00am)

The Irish musician and singer-songwriter Hozier recently released  a new extended play entitled “Unheard” as an extension to his August album “Unreal Unearth.” The poem Dante’s Inferno inspired “Unreal Unearth” and takes the listener through the circles of hell: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. Hozier revealed that over the pandemic he was hard at work making songs for this next album. Ultimately, he decided on 16 songs for the album, with one additional song, “Through Me (The Flood),” featured only on the “Eat Your Young” EP. This new EP, “Unheard,” features songs that were originally going to be on “Unreal Unearth” but were unable to make the original release.