Urge Apple to develop technology to reduce cellphone use while driving

by Amber Miles | 09/27/2016

As smartphone popularity has increased, so have instances of and casualties from distracted driving; in 2015, distraction-affected fatalities rose by 8.8 percent from the previous year, according to an August 2016 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report. This increase was the highest percent change of all measured fatalities in the report — even exceeding the 7.2 percent increase of total fatalities, which, itself, was the highest in five decades.

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Demonstrate commitment to ending the conflict in Syria

by Nicole Mazurova | 09/27/2016

The Syrian civil war is the most prominent humanitarian crisis of the year. Yet this fact alone will never mobilize the West to resolve the crisis, and neither will the incentive of increasing refugee flows, the threat of radicalization — which often pairs with destabilization of certain regions — or the marring of Western global conscience.

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Reject art’s and society’s disproportionate focus on the West

by Shubhan Nagendra | 09/27/2016

Museums are the pivot of a city; by attracting tourists and locals to their fine collections of art — ranging from Renaissance Europe to Medieval Asian art — they allow us a peek into the rich cultures of the East and the West.

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Support efforts of first responders in the Syrian conflict

by Jessica Goldstein | 09/27/2016

Since 2011, the world has seen the brutality Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is capable of — a capacity for destruction unparalleled even by his father, Hafez Al-Assad.

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Recognize effect of religion on American society and politics

by Andrew Jacobson | 09/20/2016

For many Americans, especially millennials, government and politics are replacing religion. Instead of attending to the dusty Bible on their bookshelves, frustrated voters are increasingly idolizing our political leaders as agents for great revolution and, perhaps, revelation.

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Urge University recognition of Brandeis Greek life

by Chaiel Schaffel | 09/20/2016

Seven lines. A paragraph. Precisely 80 words. In the Brandeis Rights and Responsibilities Handbook, a document of 75 pages, the mention of fraternities and sororities measures roughly the same length as a research paper footnote.

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Condemn leniency of sentencing in recent cases of sexual assault

by Nia Lyn | 09/20/2016

For the average college student, three months is the duration of a summer internship — but for Brock Turner, three months in prison is apparently all the time needed to serve after assaulting a young woman.

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Reject Massachusetts ballot measure to increase charter schools

by Aaron Dvorkin | 09/20/2016

This coming November, Massachusetts residents voting in the general election will face many significant choices — even ones that extend beyond one of the most contentious presidential elections in our nation’s history.

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Views on the News: Uber

  | 09/20/2016

In Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Uber began to test its new self-driving cars. As a precaution, a safety engineer sits in the driver’s seat of each car in order to take control if necessary.

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EDITORIAL: Change name of ‘Columbus Day’

by The Justice Editorial Board | 09/20/2016

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, “discovered” America and enslaved and tortured its inhabitants.

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EDITORIAL: Reject freeze on adjunct faculty’s wages and benefits

by The Justice Editorial Board | 09/20/2016

This month, the University will embark on its fourth round of collective bargaining with the newly instituted adjunct and contract-faculty union.

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Recognize the importance of funding NASA research

by Kat Semerau | 09/13/2016

NASA launched space vehicle OSIRIS-REx Thursday evening, Sept. 8, 2016, in what is to become an epic instellar mission.

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Criticize GOP hypocrisy in light of voter identification laws

by Ben Feshbach | 09/13/2016

Hillary Clinton calls out Donald Trump for being a bigot; Trump goes meta and suggests that Hillary Clinton’s accusation of bigotry is itself bigoted.

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EDITORIAL: Reform evaluation process for adjunct faculty

by The Justice Editorial Board | 09/13/2016

In a May 19 Google Slides presentation, Brandeis Faculty Forward outlined their talking points for their negotiations with the University over the first union contract.

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EDITORIAL: Applaud efforts to improve campus diversity

by The Justice Editorial Board | 09/13/2016

Throughout these first few weeks of classes, the University community has watched its administration run a gamut of highly public efforts toward starting conversations about diversity and inclusion in society, while the administration continues a gradual process of addressing the issue within the University itself.

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Views on the News: Calais Wall

  | 09/13/2016

This month, Britain and France will work together to build a proposed 13-foot wall in France on the road approaching Calais, a crucial French port.

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Raise awareness of activists’ impact on Congo conflict minerals

by Jessica Goldstein | 09/13/2016

Adam Hochschild’s “King Leopold’s Ghost” expresses the somber quote by 14th-century philosopher Ibn Khaldun: “Those who are conquered always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics―in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs.” This statement is reflective in the present day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where, to some extent, militias profit from the suffering of the Congolese people. Between 1884 and 1885, European states carved up the African continent in the Berlin Conference, and King Leopold II of Belgium gained his own personal state.

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Reject increasing political polarization in American society

by Amber Miles | 09/13/2016

Within days of President Barack Obama’s statement calling climate change “terrifying,” a Sept.

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Support Kaepernick’s freedom to protest peacefully

by Nia Lyn | 09/05/2016

America is said to be the “land of the free and home of the brave” — at least, so says the national anthem that has played at every major sporting event for the better portion of the last century.

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Recognize complexities of patriotism in light of Kaepernick protest

by Ravi Simon | 09/05/2016

At the party conventions this summer, viewers were treated to an extraordinary amount of flag waving as the candidates wrapped themselves in red, white and blue.

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