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Student Union Vice President Charlotte Franco ’15 announced in an email to the community on Sunday that the University will see the implementation of a new meal plan system at the beginning of the next academic year.
At the end of its Mar. 3 editorial defending Brandeis’ record on free speech prompted by a Foundation for Individual Rights in Education article titled “Top 10 Threats to Free Speech on Campus,” the Justice invited responses. We deeply appreciate the opportunity to explain why we remain convinced that the incidents described in the editorial violate students’ rights to free speech and properly earn Brandeis a spot on our “10 Worst” list.
Promote civility in free speech
Sunday afternoon, as part of the Responsibility to Protect at 10 Conference at Brandeis, three experts on international justice spoke to both the Brandeis community and the public about vulnerable populations and new players in the international arena.
On Sunday night, the Senate convened for its weekly meeting to continue the process of chartering clubs, discussing allocations of the Student Union budget and compiling Committee Chair reports on upcoming initiatives.
EDITOR'S NOTE: An abridged version of this editorial was published in our print edition, due to space constraints. The full editorial is published here.
Correction appended.
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice raises important questions about the nature of mercy, racism and anti-gay and anti-Semitic attitudes. Shakespeare’s comedy highlights key social issues that retain their relevance today. This weekend, Hold Thy Peace presented a production of The Merchant of Venice that emphasized these issues, as part of ’DEIS Impact. Performances were held in the Usdan International Lounge.
Today, the University planned to welcome feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian to give the Martin Weiner Lecture in Computer Science at the Shapiro Campus Center. Sarkeesian, who is best known for her YouTube series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, was forced to cancel the engagement, as the University was closed on Monday due to a severe snowstorm. Tickets were free, and the event was to be well-attended, with a nearly sold-out audience. It was hosted by the Computer Science department but also sponsored by the English, Sociology, Women and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Social Justice and Social Policy departments and programs.
Last Wednesday, the #BrandeisIsOurHouse campaign hosted a series of speakers and performers in Levin Ballroom sharing their positive experiences within the Brandeis community. Kelsey Segaloff ’15, who began the #BrandeisIsOurHouse social media campaign this winter break, organized the event.
In 1950, Gordon Parks, the first black staff photographer for Life Magazine, went back to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kan. to photograph the town and his elementary school classmates, more than 20 years after they had gone to school together.
On Sunday night, the Senate convened for its weekly meeting to discuss the chartering of clubs and the allocation of Senate funds.
On Saturday, the Office of High School Programs and Active Minds Brandeis held a ’Deis Impact event called “Interdisciplinary Healing: Addressing the Stigma of Mental Illness on Brandeis Campus through Arts and Sciences.”
On Sunday night, the Senate convened for its second meeting of the semester to continue the process of recognizing and chartering clubs, listening to updates on committee initiatives and addressing concerns related to the vice presidential election.
Following the leak of faculty emails from the restricted “Concerned” Listserv this past summer and University President Frederick Lawrence’s response to the comments in a July 28, 2014 statement, some faculty members have expressed concerns regarding freedom of speech on campus.
“Our training camps are open; so are our battlefields. Come on youths of Islam! Let’s take Baghdad together.” So expresses the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in one of the group’s many online recruitment videos. This call to fight has resonated with people from all around the world as the Islamic State calls Muslims to serve Allah. Unlike its predecessors, the Islamic State pervades the Internet and therefore possesses the ability to grow its cult-like terrorist organization at an exponential speed. According to Adrian Furnham, a professor of psychology at the University College London and the Norwegian Business School, the majority of cults begin by inducting members and remaking them as one of them. This evolution begins the second someone hits play.
The Homeric textual tradition recognizes that no one person is responsible for the Iliad or the Odyssey. Rather, these texts evolved for well over a thousand years, from the pre-Classical era into the Middle Ages, as the result of intergenerational intellectual collaboration. Similarly, the Homer Multitext Project, which aims to increase digital accessibility to these texts, relies on intergenerational intellectual collaboration between undergraduates and professors and across multiple institutions.
Last Thursday, the Campus Card Office announced a new meal period schedule in an email to the student body. While the old policy had three meal periods per day, the new policy has five—breakfast, continental breakfast, lunch, limited lunch and dinner.
Following the assassinations of two New York City Police Department officers on Dec. 20, Khadijah Lynch ’16 tweeted “i have no sympathy for the nypd officers who were murdered today.” Daniel Mael ’15, a writer for the news website Truth Revolt, reposted Lynch’s tweets in an article. A Facebook group soon emerged called “Expel Khadijah Lynch from Brandeis University.” Group members posted rape, lynching and death threats against Lynch.
After 52 years at Brandeis, Prof. Donald Hindley (POL) is on a one-year terminal sabbatical and will stop teaching at the University. Hindley said that he was not forced to leave, but, rather, he left because he thought that his own department had become “far more conservative,” and “far fewer … let me call them, activist, liberal-minded people” are at Brandeis. “I just could not tolerate anymore. It just wasn’t worth tolerating anymore what the place was becoming under Lawrence,” said Hindley in an interview with the Justice.