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According to Moroccan-born Israeli anthropologist and author André Levy, “In my eyes, anthropology, more than any other discipline in the social sciences, aspires to be present in life itself, in order to make sense of it and to give it meaning. It attempts to understand human action from an immediate closeness of which there is no comparison in the social sciences.”
The Senate convened for its first meeting of the semester on Sunday to discuss ongoing initiatives and internal funding requests for events that will take place in the coming months.
I remember when I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist. That pull to the deep unknown engulfed me, and nothing could ever prove to surpass all the creatures that filled that vessel.
The University administration established a Faculty-Student Committee on Asian American Pacific Islander Studies, according to a Dec. 22 email Interim University President Lisa Lynch sent to the community. The decision was made in response to a student protest and several meetings with the student leaders of the Brandeis Asian American Task force.
Students rallied outside the Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center today from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in support of the Brandeis Asian American Task Force’s initiative to create an Asian American Studies program at Brandeis. BAATF sent a letter to high-ranking administrators last week demanding a formal response from Interim President Lisa Lynch by today. No response was sent to the student body, posted online or distributed to 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.
A grassroots student activism group calling itself the Brandeis Asian American Task Force called on the University administration to create an Asian American studies program by Fall 2016 in a letter sent to senior administrators last Monday and posted on medium.com last Wednesday. The letter gives administrators just over one week to sign a contract pledging that they will accede to the demands, calling upon administrators to respond to BAATF’s demands by today.
Upon hearing that Prof. Jillian Powers (AMST) was uncertain whether she would be able to return to the University next year due to being hired on a one-year contract, Alexandra Shapiro ’18 began drafting a letter to administrators and the American Studies faculty chair calling for Powers to receive a tenure-track position. Now that letter, along with several post-script testimonials from Powers’ past students, has been distributed to other faculty and undergraduate departmental representatives. Shapiro will potentially contact the Brandeis Faculty Forward movement as well.
The Ford Hall 2015 sit-in has centered around a list of 13 demands sent to Interim President Lisa Lynch last Thursday. Protest leaders say that they will only end the sit-in when their demands are met. The sit-in began on Friday.
“You stupid kite, come down out of that tree!” The large crowd huddled in the top floor of the Rose Art Museum was completely silent as Tony Arnold echoed these words from the bottom of the stairs. As she continued to sing a variety of sounds — including animal sounds and quotes from comic strips — the audience remained speechless.
On a warm fall afternoon inside a classroom in Waltham High School (WHS), six high school students talk about their own petri-dish experiments using sunscreen and yeast. These students are members of the school’s newly recognized after-school science club, which strives to bring a unique approach to high school science curriculums.
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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.
Medical Emergency
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal in April of this year crushed entire villages and left hundreds of thousands homeless — but a few structures in Nepal were still standing after the natural disaster.
On Monday, the University welcomed media critic Anita Sarkeesian for a lecture on sexist and anti-feminist tropes in video games. The lecture had initially been planned for February, but it had to be rescheduled due to major snowfall that caused travel problems.
When feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian was invited to Utah State University in 2014, her lecture was canceled due to security concerns. While listeners passed through metal detectors to get to her lecture on Monday at Wasserman Cinematheque, Sarkeesian spoke freely and passionately with the University community about her area of focus: sexism and feminism in media, particularly video games. The fact that the University invited this important speaker shows our commitment to academic discourse and should be celebrated.
On Saturday morning, Interim University President Lisa Lynch welcomed parents to the annual Fall Fest activities by delivering the State of the University Address. In her address, Lynch highlighted what she believes sets Brandeis apart from other universities.
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Brandeis Climate Justice is a campus organization of undergraduate and graduate students. The group is committed to decarbonizing the economy, mitigating the worst consequences of climate disruption and assisting those most affected by our changing atmosphere and oceans. As young people inheriting an increasingly-fraught ecological future, the climate crisis is the most pressing issue of our era, with tremendous consequences for the future of social justice.