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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.
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On Nov. 24, a grand jury chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, sparking a new wave of protest nationwide. Protestors have blocked traffic on highways and tunnels in California and D.C., and lain down in the middle of malls and city streets at “die-ins” in Boston and St. Louis. They also staged a nationwide walkout of businesses and schools on Monday called Hands Up, Walk Out. Within Ferguson, the ruling led to both peaceful protests and riots, causing schools and businesses to close on Tuesday morning. The Ferguson Municipal Public Library remained open and hosted events for students in the area, inspiring over 7,000 people to donate to the library. How do you react to the grand jury’s ruling and the response nationwide?
Entering South Campus commons, I saw two rings of chairs in the center of what I would soon learn was the stage. The actors, dressed in the chic wardrobes of well-off 30-somethings, meandered from chair to chair, introducing themselves to the audience, entertaining those around me and making me a little uncomfortable.
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Students raised a number of concerns about the flexibility and cost of meal plans at a dining forum with Sodexo last Wednesday.
Rabbi Chayim Zirkind (left) and General Manager for Sodexo Shawn Managhan (right) addressed student questions at the dining forum last week.
Brandeis’ International Business School received a $2.5 million donation from the Hassenfeld family to establish an innovation center, according to a Nov. 7 IBS press release. The center will allow for an increase in corporate outreach, expand IBS’ influence outside of the University and provide new educational opportunities for Brandeis students.
Administrators answered students’ questions and concerns regarding sexual assault and dining services at a roundtable discussion last Wednesday night. The Student Union hosted this discussion with members of the Brandeis administration so students could openly address issues around campus.
The Brandeis Labor Coalition released a petition on Friday urging University President Frederick Lawrence and the administration to reform Brandeis’ labor and economic policies.
Last Tuesday’s midterm elections resulted in significant changes to the balance of power in Washington, D.C. Republicans won a majority in the Senate with 52 seats, while Democrats now hold 45. The GOP also further solidified their majority in the House of Representatives with 10 new wins in that House. This gives the Republican Party a majority in both houses of the legislative branch. Additionally, Republicans won 26 of 36 governor’s races, including in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois. Many Republicans campaigned on a platform of opposing gridlock in Washington, especially given Obama’s promises to end gridlock in 2008 and 2012. How do you think the wins and losses will affect Obama’s two remaining years in office?
Student Union President Sneha Walia ’15 began the weekly Senate meeting by saying that she will be working on compiling notes and responses from the Student Union Round Table last Wednesday, which she will confirm with the administrators who were present, and send to the student body in a newsletter.
Prof. Dan Perlman’s (BIOL) new office has two desks and a beach ball-sized inflatable globe. Sunlight pours in from the huge windows that line the wall. Small boxes from his recent move are stacked neatly in a corner along a wall that doubles as a dry erase board. There are no cubicles or doors separating Perlman’s working space from that of his colleagues, just a see-through partition that stretches from the floor to the ceiling.