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The third finalist for the new Chief Diversity Officer position spoke in an open forum with students on Thursday about how she sees her role and her experience as a current CDO at a university of around 7,000 undergraduates. The University is gathering student feedback on the four finalists — two of whom spoke on campus last week — through these open forums, with the final forum scheduled for next week.
The months-long search for a chief diversity officer is nearly over, University President Ronald Liebowitz announced in an email to students yesterday. The email — which updated students on a number of the University’s diversity and inclusion efforts — also gave some insight into what the coming months will look like.
Graddy receives promotion at IBS
The Senate convened for its first meeting of the semester on Sunday to review the purpose of the different branches of the Student Union and discuss initiatives for the coming months.
Now that Commencement proceedings have drawn to a close, this board would like to extend its congratulations to the University’s accomplished Class of 2016. We would also like to recognize and honor the Justice’s recent graduates who have contributed so much to this paper.
“We are going to see the universe,” artist JJ PEET explained to the Justice on Friday night after he had successfully found a team of students with whom to complete his newest project “FIELD_WORK.”
The Senate convened on Sunday to recognize a club and discuss uses for remaining Senate funds in its final weekly meeting of the semester.
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The Senate convened for its weekly meeting on Sunday to recognize a club, pass a Senate Money Request for the Midnight Buffet and discuss amendment changes with the Union Judiciary.
Last Tuesday, the University held its annual ’DeisTalks event, in which students share personal stories and discuss topics of interest in a panel modeled after the popular TED Talks. Topics at this year’s ’DeisTalks included differentiating types of anxiety, the “model minority” and animal rights. This board applauds the ’DeisTalks organizers for continuing to push this creative and intellectually stimulating event to new heights and hopes the University community looks to ’DeisTalks as an example of productive and thoughtful event design.
The Senate met for its weekly meeting on Sunday to confirm Student Union Executive Board members and discuss changes to the University’s energy policies.
The men and women’s track and field teams traveled to Bridgewater State University for the non-scoring Bears Invitational on Saturday, picking up a pair of wins and a number of top finishes during the day.
The Senate met on Sunday to discuss forming a committee to look into space allocation on campus and electing a new representative to the Community Enhancement and Emergency Fund.
In this week’s Student Union Senate meeting, a new club called Volunteers Around the World approached the Senators seeking recognition, according to an agenda for the Senate meeting provided to the Justice by Student Union Vice President David Herbstritt ’17.
This week, our Forum section planned to include a column from Dor Cohen ’16, who for the past year has been a columnist for this section. We now have reason to believe that Cohen directly plagiarized several sections of the column he had planned for this week, and that the Justice has published plagiarism in at least four of Cohen’s past columns. As a result, Cohen is no longer a columnist for the Forum section.
As the 2016 Presidential elections approach, politics are at the forefront of many people’s minds. Brandeis is no different: on Wednesday evening, students crowded the Schwartz auditorium to observe a moderated public debate between representatives from the Brandeis Conservatives and Brandeis Democrats clubs. Prof. Daniel Breen (LGLS) moderated the event titled which was titled “You Be the Judge: A Debate on the Issues of the 2016 Presidential Race” and was hosted by the Politics department.
The Senate convened on Sunday to charter a club and discuss updates on initiatives and Senate Money Requests. The meeting was held at noon rather than at the usual 8:00 p.m. meeting time. Skye Golann, who was a Class of 2018 senator last semester but left the University, visited the Senate meeting for its first half.
Changes to the Fitchburg commuter rail line may add three new times the train will stop at Brandeis/Roberts station while taking away two old times, according to a new schedule proposed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The inbound line toward North Station in Boston will gain stops at 6:24 p.m. and 10:34 p.m. while losing the stop at 8:41 p.m. Meanwhile, the outbound line will gain a stop at 3:57 p.m. and will lose a stop at 9:19 a.m.
The newly formed bargaining unit of adjunct and part-time faculty has been working on three main fronts since joining the Service Employees International Union Local 509 in December: gathering information about their constituents' main concerns, increasing the number of faculty actively involved in the union and requesting full information from the University about current members’ contracts.
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.