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After expanding to over 70 schools, Marriage Pact has launched at Brandeis, causing a stir on campus. A total of 1,255 Brandeis students filled out the questionnaire, which is more than a third of the undergraduate population.
Fear-mongering is a tactic commonly used by climate change activists to provoke people to make a change before it is “too late.” The White House National Climate Advisor, Gina McCarthy, passionately disagrees with this approach. “The worst thing I think you can do is say that the world is falling apart, and I have no way of fixing it,” she said, her Boston accent coming out strong, pronouncing “apart” more like “apaht.”
Prior to entering the field of higher education administration, University President Ron Liebowitz was deeply entrenched in the study of the former Soviet Union. His grandfather emigrated to the U.S. right before the Russian Revolution and “instilled in my brother and me a fascination with the history,” said Liebowitz in a March 7 interview with the Justice.
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Shneider said that the proposed budget is similar to those from previous years, though she and Hopen increased spending on certain items. The proposal increases spending on Turkey Shuttles for next semester because the cost of those from last semester was $4000 over budget.
The Student Union Senate voted to approve the Union’s budget for the 2023 fiscal year at its March 6 meeting, and also voted on chartering three new clubs. The Union’s head treasurers Amanda Shneider ’22 and Josh Hopen ’23 presented the details of the budget at the previous week’s meeting.
Five speakers, Professor Steven Wilson (POL), Paul Jankowski (HIST), Renanah Joyce (POL), Kerry Chase (POL), and Chandler Rosenberger (IGS) offered their historical, political and sociological insights into the conflict.
Russia launched a military attack on neighboring country Ukraine on Feb. 24. While unprovoked by Ukraine, the tension on the Russian side has been building up over a long period of time, as Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has continuously denied the existence of Ukraine’s sovereignty as a state.
Seventy-six students and 15 faculty and staff members tested positive for COVID-19 in the weeks leading up to and throughout the February break. Dozens of students were placed in quarantine and isolation, but cases dwindled towards the end of break.
Brandeis undergraduate students pay, on average, $7,070 on meal plans per year, according to the Office of Student Financial Services. Since 2013, students have paid this price for Sodexo as stated by the Food Service Director website. Sodexo’s contract was meant to end in 2020; however, due to the pandemic, they received a two year extension, which is set to end in June 2022, the Office of the Executive Vice President, Finance, and Administration said.
With the recent reduction in positive rates on campus, the University has implemented changes to COVID-19 regulations on campus, including making masks not mandatory in many locations and reducing testing frequency.
On Feb. 1st, 2022, the University named African American studies scholar Carol Anderson as the 2022 winner of the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize. The prize honors “outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations,” according to the University website. The recipients, named annually, receive $25,000 and a medal, both of which are presented at a ceremony to honor the winner. Recipients also have a residency at the University; Anderson’s will take place from Oct. 24 to Oct. 26, 2022.
On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia launched a large-scale military assault against Ukraine, according to an article by the Council on Foreign Relations. AP News reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan with this attack is to “dismantle the [Ukrainian] government and replace it with his own regime.”
The Justice: I read in Brandeis Now that the competition started today; have you already gone on today? Are you doing it from Athens? How does that work?
The American Red Cross is currently facing its worst national blood shortage in more than a decade, according to their website. On Monday, Feb. 7 and Wednesday, Feb. 9, Blood Drive, under the Waltham Group, hosted one of their triannual blood drives.
The Student Union Senate held its third meeting of the semester on Feb. 13, at which members chose its internal leaders in an executive session. The Senate voted to make Ashna Kelkar ’24 the new executive senator, replacing Sen. Joseph Coles ’22, who is stepping down. Camaron Johnson ’25 was re-elected as the Senate representative to the Community Enhancement and Engagement Fund. Gonzalo Palafox ’25 was re-elected as a Senate representative to the Allocations Board.
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Brandeis University is keeping the community informed about its COVID-19 statistics through an online dashboard. This dashboard contains information about how many tests were collected, how many individuals were tested, how many individuals tested positive, how many students are in quarantine, how many students are in isolation and the seven-day average for positive tests on campus. The dashboard also includes various statistics about areas in Massachusetts. The Justice will produce infographics each week, visually displaying the information that the University releases online.