Many activists, administrators and onlookers alike during last year’s Ford Hall 2015 movement agreed that adding more clinicians of color — specifically, professionals specializing in multicultural mental health — to the Brandeis Counseling Center would be an important and easy-to-implement policy to aid the student body.
The fall 2016 semester has finally begun, and one person on campus is dreading a very specific kind of pop quiz: University President Ronald Liebowitz. Thus far in his two months-long tenure as the head of the school, Liebowitz has been able to avoid direct comment on the major issues galvanizing the student body.
On Aug. 19, University students received the annual update of the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook.
Whether the U.S. should increase the number of refugees it is willing to accept and resettle is a debate often framed in terms of compassion versus security: Those in favor of taking more refugees assert that it is the humane thing to do, our moral calling as Americans; those against warn that accepting refugees from the Syrian Civil War will threaten our national security because some of them might be terrorists. Although progressives like myself think that American inclusivity is self-evidently supportive of refugees, that hasn’t convinced conservatives thus far.
Since entrepreneur Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994, the company has come to define the virtual storefront and has proven convenient for savvy college students.
On Aug. 1, the Movement for Black Lives coalition of over 50 organizations and partners released a comprehensive manifesto designed to eradicate systemic racism and its destructive symptoms, including economic insufficiency and discriminatory policing.
On Aug. 5, 2016 Brazil’s acting leader, Vice President Michel Temer, signaled the start of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, an occasion that should’ve been met with joy but was not.
In his 1835 text “Democracy in America,” French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville was perhaps most captivated by what he dubbed America’s “equality of condition.” According to the First Principles Journal, de Tocqueville employed this phrase to refer not to “the literal material equality of all American citizens, but rather the universal assumption that no significance was to be accorded to any apparent differences—material, social, or personal.” This innate equality was initially affirmed in the Declaration of Independence’s “self-evident” “truth” that “all men are created equal.” Rather than signifying that citizens were promised equal outcomes, this clause expressed that all are born with equal dignity and guaranteed objective treatment before the law. Of course, the Founders’ 18th-century notion of equality was far from how we conceive the principle today.
Far exceeding any initial expectations, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign has powerfully shaken the Democratic party and energized its base.
On a daily basis, I receive emails reminding me of the importance of applying to internships for the summer.
Carbon dioxide emission is the iconic image of pollution. I vividly remember reading science textbooks throughout grade school with pictures of factories spewing a dirty brown gas into the atmosphere.
In light of Commencement, members of the Class of 2016 have the opportunity to look back at their college careers and their growth over the past four years.
Now that Commencement proceedings have drawn to a close, this board would like to extend its congratulations to the University’s accomplished Class of 2016.
On April 13 and 14, the World Health Organization and the World Bank held a conference in Washington, D.C.
In May of 2015, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Kevin Yoder (R-KS) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) proposed the bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act in Congress.
The annual housing lottery commenced last Monday with one significant tweak to the usual system: housing options for upperclassmen are now staggered across multiple days, meaning that on the first day of housing selection, only certain housing options can be chosen.
The Department of Community Living locked the bathrooms in East Quad in 2014 after reports of unidentified persons peeping into showers.
On Monday afternoon, the Student Union sent out an email to the undergraduate population detailing a proposal to create a joint student and administrative committee to allocate campus spaces to various campus groups and organizations.
Recently, Brandeis’ Vagina Club put on its annual performance of “The Vagina Monologues,” an empowering play that shares the stories of different women’s experiences of womanhood through stories about their vaginas.
With unanimous support from Republican state legislators and a near-immediate approval by Republican Governor Pat McCrory (R), North Carolina’s HB 2 became law on March 23 — the same day legislators introduced it — despite protests by Democratic state legislators, according to a March 23 New York Times article.The legislation, colloquially referred to as a bathroom law, sought to overturn a Charlotte ordinance which, among other things, allowed transgender people to use the public bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity rather than those corresponding to their physical sex at birth.
The Boston Red Sox still need improvement
Brandeis community reflects on antisemitism and campus support
AFCON Tournament result controversially overturned
Brandeis AAUP demands admin to cease business with Enterprise Rent-a-Car, primary provider of ICE’s vehicles
Road to the Oscars: “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another”