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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.
Editor's note: this article has been updated in the January 12 issue of the Justice.
Twelve days after it began, the Ford Hall 2015 protest came to a close last Tuesday, with administrators agreeing to institute several new policies to address racial injustice on campus. Of the original 13 demands the demonstrators made, all but one were addressed in the agreement.
I am standing on the precipice of something great, you say. I am making the right decision, you say. My family won’t miss me, you say. Finally, the pain will go away. Suddenly, you are standing on the precipice of something, but it isn’t great. It is not the dream job or the relationship that will magically reset the clock on all past and failed relationships but instead you are gripping onto the edges of a very tall apartment building, aimed at throwing yourself over the railing and into the grimy abyss.
Interim President Lisa Lynch announced at last Wednesday’s town hall forum that the University will not make a decision on whether to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry until after the next University president is selected. She also addressed rumors about the future of Usen Castle, saying that the University will most likely have to take down part of the building, as the renovations required to preserve it for the next 20 years would most likely be prohibitively expensive.
Brandeis Climate Justice, a coalition of students and faculty which advocates for the university to divest from fossil fuel corporations, staged several protest events on Monday and Tuesday to earn the attention of the Board of Trustees during their annual fall meeting this week.
On Tuesday, the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry hosted Karen Auerbach, Ph.D. ’09, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for a discussion on the book she is currently writing, “‘For God and Country’: Jewish Publishers of Polish Books in the Nineteenth Century.”
The first results of the Brandeis Climate Survey on sexual misconduct were released last week. The findings are based on the responses of over 1,500 graduate and undergraduate students and provide insight into the scope of sexual misconduct among members of the community, as well as identify areas for the community’s concern and improvement.
Senator Bernie Sanders’s decision to enter the race for the Democratic nomination was initially met with great joy from progressive Democrats. Prior to Sanders’s entrance, the field was too moderate for many liberals. They finally had a candidate who would frequently take on issues such as income inequality with greater fervor — more than many Democrats in Washington have been willing to. His College for All Act would make all public colleges free, and he recently sponsored the Pay Workers a Living Wage Act, which would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over a four-year period.
Editor's Note: This article has been updated for the September 22 print edition of The Justice.
A few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton released her proposal to make college more affordable. Shortly after sharing her proposal Clinton Atook to Twitter, asking Millennials to explain how their college loans and debt made them feel using three emojis. Unsurprisingly, the plan backfired, as Twitter users took the opportunity to criticize Clinton for oversimplifying a complex issue in an attempt to reach out to young voters.