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When Supreetha Gubbala ’12 broke her ankle earlier this year, hobbling around campus taught her something possibly more important than what she was learning in her classes. “I realized that it’s almost impossible to get around Brandeis when you’re disabled,” she said. And that was only for a temporary period of time. So Gubbala, Student […]
At an event last night co-sponsored by the Student Union and the Office of Communications, faculty panelists commented on the significance of Tuesday’s election of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
The panel, which was moderated by National Public Radio defense commentator Guy Raz ’96, included Prof. Peniel Joseph (AAAS), Prof. John Ballantine Jr. (IBS), Prof. Mingus Mapps (AAAS), and Prof. Jill Greenlee (POL).
In his opening remarks, Raz put the panel into perspective, calling this election “probably the most historic election in America’s 232 years.”
He went on to note that although when he was a student at Brandeis, President Bill Clinton’s inauguration was a “transformational moment,” this election was “incomparable…simply by virtue of what [Obama] managed to accomplish.”
On that note, Joseph began the discussion by describing Obama’s election as “a culmination of an almost 150 year history,” which, he said, began with the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. Still, while minorities were able to attain elected office, the “era of Klan violence,” “domestic terrorism,” and the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling forced African Americans out of such jobs, with the last African American leader leaving office in 1901. At that point, the North Carolina legislature passed a “resolution of joy.”
The printing of the Know Your Rights information magnets was cancelled yesterday after language discrepancies between the magnets and the Rights and Responsibilities handbook were identified. The magnets concerning the student conduct process were soon to be released by Union President Jason Gray ’10, Office of Student Rights and Advocacy (OSRA) Director Laura Cohen ’09, […]
Students are now able to use their meals to purchase soy milk, Dannon yogurt and vegan noodle options prepared on site at the P.O.D. Market, along with the bananas, Bistro Salad, Roasted Turkey sandwich and the Tuna Sandwich at Einstein’s Bros Bagels, Dining services announced last Thursday. The expansion of the current C-Meal, which has […]
“We’re in a moment when media scholars have something to contribute,” stated MIT Professor Henry Jenkins at a Brandeis lecture on Thursday. His point to make: technology and media literacy is changing. Jenkins, the founder and director of the Comparative Studies Program at MIT, explained the essentiality of new media in the coming age, something […]
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick spoke in Brandeis’ Faculty Club about green technology similarities between Israel and Massachusetts Tuesday night at a dinner for the Israel Cleantech Investor Conference hosted by the International Business School. At the conference, which was held in conjunction with the New England-Israel Business Council, the Government of Israel, the Israel Economic […]
National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, Spencer Wells, discussed his work with the National Geographic Genographic Project last evening in the Faculty Club. Wells, a geneticist and anthropologist, has traveled the world testing the DNA of indigenous and traditional populations in order to determine how man populated the earth. His work is documented in the film The […]
A major entitled Film and Visual Media Studies passed the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Oct. 16., Film Studies Program Chair Prof. Alice Kelikian (HIST) said. Faculty members of the UCC declined to comment on committee proceedings due to the confidentiality of the committee’s deliberations. Chair of the UCC and Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe […]
The Student Union is expected to announce the formation of a new executive committee next week that would serve as an advisory board to the university’s Office of Investment Management on issues of endowment and shareholder engagement. The formation of the Committee for Endowment Ethics and Responsibility will come just two weeks after Brandeis received […]
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Marty Krauss announced the creation of a special faculty advisory committee to consider possibilities for expenditure reduction in Arts and Sciences for fiscal year 2010 in an e-mail to the faculty sent Monday. The creation of this committee comes nearly three weeks after President Reinharz and Executive […]
