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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.
The deadline to apply for the position of superintendent of the Waltham school district passed this week, on Friday, Oct. 4, according to an Oct. 4 Waltham Patch article. The school committee is set to review the applications in the upcoming week, and interviews for the position will begin four days after the review is complete.
One of the two University graduate students stabbed on Sept. 23 has been released from the hospital and the other “is recovering well” according to a Sept. 26 email sent to the Brandeis community by University President Ron Liebowitz.
The Board of Trustees met on Sept. 16 and 17 to discuss its plans for the 2019-2020 academic year. University President Ron Liebowitz sent an email Thursday to the Brandeis community with a summary of the meeting.
Former Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank Janet Yellen cautioned against the deregulation of governmental oversight of banks in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as the politicization of the Federal Reserve during a speech Saturday to a crowd of International Business School alumni and other community members.
Brandeis community members joined thousands of other individuals in the Boston Climate Strike on Friday to demand climate justice. Over 600,000 people marched across the United States and 4 million people marched around the world in hundreds of similar climate strikes.
Sexual harassment can create an uncomfortable work environment in any profession, and the medical field is no exception. With the number of women enrolled in United States medical schools exceeding the number of men enrolled for the first time in 2017 and then again in 2018, according to the American Association of Medical Colleges, research is being conducted to learn more about how women are treated in the medical profession.
Brandeis and Waltham Police officers responded to an emergency call at 1:37 a.m. Monday morning and found two Brandeis graduate students who had been stabbed repeatedly on Wheelock Road. The victims were transported to different nearby hospitals and are “expected to survive,” according to a press release put out by the Waltham Police Department.
Prof. John Wilmes (MATH) used the money that he won from the Wellington Prize to pursue his dream of seeing sloths in the Amazon Rainforest, according to a Sept. 16 BrandeisNOW article. The Wellington Prize winner is randomly selected at the end of each year.
Faculty, staff and students convened in Rapaporte Treasure Hall on Thursday for a talk by Stuart Eizenstat, the former U.S. ambassador to the European Union and White House domestic affairs advisor to President Jimmy Carter, about his book “President Carter: The White House Years.”