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Outside the Student Union office.
At its weekly meeting Sunday, the Senate discussed a complaint against Union President Simran Tatuskar ’21 that will be heard by the Judiciary Committee, how Friday’s Pride Deis event went and updates to last year’s initiative to place free menstrual products in bathrooms across campus.
The Office of Human Resources will be implementing three new policies as of Jan. 1, 2020, according to a Sept. 26 inBrief email. The policies, which establish flexible staff schedules, a reward system and a new child care systems, keep with a central HR priority to “make Brandeis a great place to work,” per the same email.
In an Oct. 8 email to the community, University President Ron Liebowitz stated that, alongside 164 other universities and colleges in the United States, Brandeis has filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He explained that DACA “provides work permits and protection from deportation to nearly 700,000 undocumented people … who were brought to the U.S. as children.”
Public Safety’s annual fire safety and security report, which spans the last three years and includes statistics about crime and fire rates on campus, shows an overall decrease in crime and an increase in fire incidents.
At the second faculty meeting of the year, Brandeis faculty discussed the University’s drop in the U.S. News & World Report rankings and how the University can work to better integrate academic and social life.
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Shivani Patel, former executive assistant of a Waltham-based technology company, will plead guilty to charges that placed her in connection with a fraud and embezzlement scheme that made over $3 million, according to the District of Massachusetts Attorney’s Office. The Martha’s Vineyard Times reported that the name of the specific Waltham company for which Patel worked had not been released.
The Institute on Assets and Social Policy, a research institute that is part of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, released a study on Sept. 25 about the disproportionate impact of student debt on students of color.
AN UNEXPLAINED DEPARTURE: Director of Student Accessibility Support Beth Rodgers-Kay officially retired on Sept. 23, but she was out of the office for much of the beginning of the semester.
At its meeting on Sunday, the Senate dechartered 23 clubs that failed to complete the necessary mandatory anti-hazing forms and passed two amendments to Senate office hours and attendance requirements.
The Senate met on Oct. 1 for a make-up meeting after the holiday, where they discussed new amendments to office hours and the Union Code of Conduct, as well as IfNotNow’s club status.
Graduate students working as teaching and research assistants would be prohibited from unionizing under a rule proposed by the National Labor Relations Board on Sept. 23. According to the rule, graduate students who work for a university are not employees because their relationship to the school is “primarily educational in nature.”
Since the start of the semester, the University has been sharing initiatives it is taking to improve sustainability efforts at Brandeis. According to the Brandeis Sustainability website, the office’s goals are to fulfill the University’s commitment to social justice, reduce its carbon footprint and be responsible members of the global community.
Shortly after the semester started, Elijah Harrison ’21 walked into the Student Accessibility Support office for a scheduled appointment with Director of SAS Beth Rodgers-Kay. Earlier that day when he had emailed her about running a few minutes late, he received an automated reply from Rodgers-Kay: “I am out of the office. I will not check email during this time.”
Boston University’s College of Fine Arts recognized Brandeis Prof. Joe Wardwell (FA) as a distinguished alumnus, according to a Sept. 20 BrandeisNOW article.
University alumnus Abbie Hoffman ’59 was a radical social activist, political organizer, drug dealer, conspiracist, rioter, author, FBI suspect and 1960s counterculture icon. Additionally, he was the first male cheerleader on the Brandeis cheerleading team, a fact only recently brought to light in a series of audio recordings that were donated to the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections by documentarian Keith Armonaitis.
The International Society for the Study of Narrative recognized Prof. Emerita Susan Lanser (ENG, WGS, COML) with the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award for her “sustained contributions to narrative studies,” according to a Sept. 20 BrandeisNOW article.
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After a months-long delay, the University will transition its financial management system for campus clubs from the Student Union Management Systems to Slate by the end of June 2020, Executive Senator Jake Rong ’21 reported during the Sept. 22 Senate meeting.