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Period Activists at ’Deis is embarking on a new campaign: advocating for Brandeis to provide free menstrual products for undergraduate students. However, “bureaucratic pushback” has stalled the executive board’s latest efforts, according to Grace Lassila ’25, PAD advocacy chair, in an interview with The Justice on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
Embassy Cinema opened in 1928. On Monday, Aug. 5, the almost century-old Waltham staple, once advertised as “Waltham’s Wonder Theatre,” closed its doors for good.
This fall’s first-years are members of the University’s largest class to date, totaling 996 students, according to an Aug. 26 email from Univ. President Ron Liebowitz. But before the class of 2026 began the first of their four years at Brandeis, they attended New Student Orientation, which began on Aug. 21. Led entirely by students, the week was made possible by 68 student Orientation Leaders, or “OLs,” and the Orientation Core Team, three veteran OLs who serve as supervisors as well as plan and run various orientation events.
After the World Health Organization declared on July 23, 2022 that the global outbreak of monkeypox has become a Public Health Emergency of International Concern — the highest warning level they can assign — and the U.S. declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Aug. 4, 2022, colleges began to develop plans to address the new outbreak.
Following two years of disruptions to in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University will be returning to a pre-pandemic class structure. Provost Carol Fierke explained in an Aug. 22 email that having a remote option for classes will no longer be required for professors.
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES
As students return to campus and with the fall semester underway, the University has decided to alter its protocols concerning the COVID-19 pandemic and their policies on masking, testing, and social distancing, among other things.
Over the summer, Brandeis was one of many Boston-based institutions accused of perpetrating the colonization of Palestine. This accusation, among others, came from a new initiative titled the Mapping Project.
While campus may have been void of students this summer, facilities staff were showing up consistently to complete various projects and address different issues on campus. Following a three month break, students may notice some changes to the University underway or already completed.
The University has elected 90 new members to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Of the honorees, 82 are part of the Class of 2022, nine of them having been inducted last year, and the remaining eight are in the Class of 2023.
Christine Mann Darden
The University hosted its first-ever “[Re]Commencement,” giving graduates of the classes of 2020 and 2021 to celebrate their graduation. Alumni were invited back to campus on Sunday, May 22 to convene in Gosman Sports and Convention Center, granting them an almost-normal commencement ceremony. Brandeis alum Marta Kauffman ’78 H’20, who co-wrote the famous television series “Friends” and received an honorary degree in 2020, gave the [Re]Commencement address.
The sweltering May heat of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center did not deter the Class of 2022’s enthusiasm for being the first in-person Commencement ceremony since 2019.
The Feldbergs, founding donors of the University whose gifts helped Brandeis emerge as a university in 1948, made a donation towards renovating the Feldberg Lounge in the Hassenfeld Conference Center. The Feldberg Lounge, built in 1955, was the first space on campus the Feldbergs funded. The lounge, adjacent to the Stein, underwent renovations beginning this past October and was opened to students in April.
On May 3, her last day in office, Student Union President Krupa Sourirajan ’23 gave the opening remarks for the end of the spring 2022 semester’s State of the Union address. Following Sourirajan, members of the outgoing executive board made brief comments on their work over the past semester.
MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Even amidst the bustle of the end of the semester, Brandeis students and faculty found time to get involved in the pro-choice movement after the leaked draft from the Supreme Court revealed a potential overturn of the landmark case Roe v. Wade.
Amidst the Russia-Ukraine war, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy took time to speak with members of the Association of American Universities about the future of the Ukrainian education system. More specifically, he discussed how Ukrainians and members of higher education institutions in America can help rebuild and support higher education in Ukraine.
Over the past academic year, at least 15 administrators and department heads have left their positions or have announced that they will be leaving soon to pursue work elsewhere.
The Student Union Senate discussed three clubs and passed a Senate Money Resolution for items related to the Midday Buffet event at its April 24 meeting, the last of the year.