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On March 22, the University welcomed Chris Suh, an assistant professor of history at Emory University, to give a talk about his research and findings for his 2023 book: "The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion.” The lecture was called “Between the ‘American Century’ and the ‘Asian Century’: Toward a New Paradigm for Understanding Racial Inequality,” with Jenny Factor and Sungkyung Cho co-hosting the meeting on Zoom. Factor and Cho are both candidates for doctorates in philosophy at Brandeis.
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On March 25, Meredith Morgan and Matthew Sheehy, the chairs of the undergraduate and graduate student speaker selection committee, announced the selection of the class of 2024 student commencement speakers. The undergraduate student chosen is Ianna Gilbert ’24, and the graduate student chosen is Peter Thabet ’24.
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SUSPICIOUS MOTOR VEHICLE
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On March 24, the Senate heard four club proposals for probationary status during its Sunday meeting, a continuation of last week's meeting. All four were passed and now have probationary status.
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Content warning: This article includes mentions of sexual assault and harassment.
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What role does international law play in how states conduct themselves in times of war? Is international law respected or even an authentic reflection of human morality? Questions like these were discussed in the fourth installment of the Dialogue & Action series, titled War, Law, and Civilians. The talk was hosted by Northeastern University and took place virtually on March 13. Dialogue & Action is a series made to model constructive dialogue and is a collaboration between nine universities including Brandeis.
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On March 22 at 4:00 p.m., the de-chartered Brandeis chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Revolutionary Student Organization rallied on campus. According to a collaborative post on the SJP and RSO Instagram profiles, the rally’s main goals were to call on Brandeis to: “1. Request that the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office drop all charges against the seven people arrested while dispersing from the Nov. 10 rally,” “2. Provide financial transparency on all its expenditures and investments” and “3. Stop supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people by engaging with the Zionist occupation’s economy and institutions, and representing dissent on campus.” Additionally, during the rally, members of the organizations presented a “Petition to End Brandeis University’s Attacks on Free Speech.”
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On March 16, the University’s Chief of Police, Matthew Rushton, sent an update to the Brandeis community regarding the unknown suspects who were harassing students near campus.
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Last semester, the Brandeis community celebrated its 75th anniversary, which included the official grand opening of the Alumni Art Gallery in the Wien Faculty Center. “Sponsored by the Brandeis Alumni Association, the Office of the President, and the Division of Creative Arts,” the Gallery’s website states, “the exhibition features a different group of alumni artists every six months.” The current exhibit, which opened in October 2023 and runs until the end of March, is titled “Then and Now,” featuring eight alumni artists of each decade since the university's founding.
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The Mandel Center for the Humanities held a series of three lectures with Jackie Wang, who is the assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. The lectures centered around “ocean ecologies and liquid aesthetics,” the first and third called “The Deep Sea as the New Frontier of Accumulation” and “Oceanic Feeling and the Politics of Mysticism” respectively. The second lecture “Poetry and Tidalectics” was held on March 12. It focused on water and material imagination and was divided into two of Wang’s essays.
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On March 14, Brandeis students, faculty and staff received a joint email from University President Ronald Liebowitz, Provost Carol Fierke and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Stewart Uretsky on the University’s response to its “short and long-term financial shortfall.”
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MEDICAL EMERGENCY
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The Student Union meeting on March 17 consisted of multiple club presentations. Five clubs presented their case as to why they should be chartered or moved to probationary status and the Student Union voted on whether or not to accredit them. Four out of the five clubs passed the presentations. The fifth club, Business for Dummies, was not accredited by the Senate due to its resemblance to other clubs already established on the Brandeis campus.
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On March 12, University President Ronald Liebowitz sent an email to community members outlining the keynote speakers and honorary degree recipients chosen for the 73rd Commencement ceremony on May 19. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and academic administrator Ruth Simmons will be delivering addresses and receiving honorary doctorates alongside women’s rights advocate Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and civil rights leader Roy DeBerry ’70, GSAS MA ’78, Ph.D ’79.
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Sanctions have become “the tool of choice” for the United States in the 21st century regarding foreign policy. The U.S. government first imposed sanctions, defined as commercial and financial restrictions applied against states, groups or individuals, on Iran in the early 1980s after the country was designated as a state sponsor of international terrorism. The U.S. has increased sanction usage worldwide by 900% in the last 24 years. Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr’s new book, “How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare,” published by the Stanford University Press in February., explains how these sanctions have “permanently changed” Iran. In an online seminar on Wednesday, March 13 hosted by Prof. Naghmeh Sohrabi (HIST), director for research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and the Charles Goodman Professor of Middle East History at Brandeis, the co-authors took attendees on a deep dive into how sanctions have historically affected Iran and how they will continue to shape Iranian policy.
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The Brandeis Food Pantry, formerly known as the FRESH Food Pantry, was founded in June 2018. Though its doors are open to any member of the Brandeis community facing food insecurity, the pantry was originally oriented toward graduate students. Since its founding, the BFP has moved from the Office of Graduate Affairs, to the Usdan Game Room and finally, to room 316 in the Shapiro Campus Center. Additionally, the BFP partnered with Healthy Waltham, a local food pantry from which it receives donations, shortly after its founding.
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Massachusetts has reportedly reached its maximum capacity of migrant influx. However, the issue may not be the volume of people arriving — instead, it may be the local housing crisis.
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MEDICAL EMERGENCY
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In its March 10 meeting, the Student Union Senate observed a presentation from Secretary Carol Kornworcel ’26, who had been working on updating and revising the official Student Union Constitution. These amendments include changes to the composition of the Senate, Allocations Board, Judiciary and Executive Board, along with revisions to the elections process. All of these proposed changes will be publicly available in the future, presented to clearly demonstrate both the changes made to the current set-ups and the reasoning behind these changes.
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Content warning: This article includes mentions of rape.
