EDITORIAL: Recognize student divestment attempts
Early last week, students and faculty members representing the group “Brandeis Climate Justice” staged several public events to protest the University’s continued investment in Fossil Fuels.
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EDITORIAL: Applaud Sarkeesian speaking event
When feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian was invited to Utah State University in 2014, her lecture was canceled due to security concerns.
EDITORIAL: Reflect on Lynch’s State of the University address
This past Saturday, Interim President Lisa Lynch hosted a State of the University talk designed to inform visiting parents about the University’s recent achievements.
EDITORIAL: Reexamine Allocations Board funding process
On Wednesday, Oct. 14, the student Allocations Board released their yearly budget decisions, which included significantly reduced funding from what clubs requested and have received in previous years.
EDITORIAL: Review campus accessibility for the disabled
In a roundtable discussion last Thursday, students and staff discussed accessibility issues to University services and gathered suggestions about how to make the University more disability-friendly.
EDITORIAL: Encourage adjunct faculty unionization efforts
In 2011, according to the American Association of Universiy Professors, 70 percent of college faculty were contingent, non-tenure track professors, paid significantly less than their significantly smaller number of tenured colleagues.
EDITORIAL: Criticize exclusionary University ID card policy
In the first few weeks of the school year, students who live off-campus have been unpleasantly surprised to find out that their ID cards no longer allow them access to dorms and other campus housing spaces due to a change in the Rights and Responsibilities handbook.
EDITORIAL: Evaluate University Campus Climate Survey
The first results of the Brandeis Climate Survey on sexual misconduct were released last week. The findings are based on the responses of over 1,500 graduate and undergraduate students and provide insight into the scope of sexual misconduct among members of the community, as well as identify areas for the community’s concern and improvement. And indeed, many of the survey’s conclusions are more than unsettling.
EDITORIAL: Establish permanent Dharmic prayer center
The temporary Dharmic Prayer Center officially opened last night in the Shapiro Campus Center’s art gallery.
EDITORIAL: Increase transparency in Xfinity deal
On Sept. 11, Director of the Department of Community Living Tim Touchette sent an email out to the student body announcing that DCL had purchased Xfinity on Campus.
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