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Volume LXVIII, Number 2
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Student life
NEW ACTIVITIES
Chums is open for business ■ Following a five-month
hiatus, the student-led coffeehouse opened for business on Friday. By abby patkin JUSTICE editor
On Friday night, Cholmondeley’s coffeehouse opened for the first time following an incident on March 6, 2015 during which the staff did not evacuate the building after the smoke detector went off. At the end of last semester, the space was open for events scheduled prior to the incident, but it has not been open for regular hours since. Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes wrote that Chum’s would be open to students from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on both this
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past Friday and Saturday in an email sent to the community on Friday evening. Associate Director of Student Activities Steve Pagios said in an interview with the Justice that the current plan is to open Chum’s for regular hours, but he also noted that the student management does not have all the keys to the building yet, which could complicate opening and closing the coffeehouse. “As it stands, Chum’s is open and will be for the foreseeable future,” student manager Elizabeth Villano ’16 said in an email to the Justice. “In fact, we intend on outlasting the castle and other various dimensions of time and space.” On March 6, students smoking in the coffeehouse’s back room set off the smoke detector, and the Chum’s workers on duty that night did not evacuate the facility, according to a March 24 Justice
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dining services
Dining services leaders step down from roles ■ The former Sodexo general
manager and chair of the Senate dining committee have been replaced. By max moran JUSTICE editor
Shawn Monaghan and Ben Margolin ’17, the general manager of Sodexo at Brandeis and the chair of the Senate dining committee respectively, have both stepped down from their positions. Steven Canario, the former general manager of Sodexo at Emerson College, has replaced Monaghan. Margolin is expected to be replaced by Skye Golann ’18, a Class of 2018 senator. In an interview with the Justice, Margolin said that he is stepping down from his position because he is studying abroad next semester and cannot hold a senate seat or chair a committee from abroad. Monaghan could not be reached for comment. Canario told the Jus-
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tice in a telephone interview that he found out he would become general manager at Brandeis in late August and that Monaghan has accepted a different position within the Sodexo network. Canario said that he has not yet encountered any major difficulties as general manager and that he hopes students see him as accessible. He added that he highly values student input on managing dining services. “The best part of my job is getting to work with students, getting to know the community,” Monaghan said. “Each institution has different needs, and you know, at the end of the day, from the two or three weeks I’ve been on campus I’m very pleased with my team and how committed they are to providing great service to the community.” Margolin announced his resignation on Sunday via the Brandeis University Senate Dining Com-
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Students gather around near the Chess Club table at this semester's student activities fair, which took place on the Great Lawn on Sunday afternoon.
student activism
University named sixth in social justice activism ■ In a new list released by
online magazine Her Campus, Brandeis was ranked in the top ten schools for social justice activism. By Tzlil levy JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
On Aug. 24, Her Campus ranked Brandeis University students 6th in the nation for “Social Justice Activists.” Her Campus serves as an online magazine aimed at women on college campuses across the country. More than 280 colleges and universities engage with the magazine with over 6,400 student representatives.
This year, Her Campus had eight different lists, including rankings for the most students in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math fields; the most Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Queer friendly schools; the most pet-friendly schools and the preppiest schools. This was the first time Brandeis University appeared on a Her Campus ranking since the magazine’s founding in 2009. In the email announcing the rankings, Her Campus Co-founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Kaplan Lewis wrote, “The college experience is about so much more than just academics, and these rankings take a critical, multi-faceted look at our nation’s
colleges and all they have to have offer in and outside the classroom, while having a little bit of fun, too.” The students’ involvement in activism and social justice is also evident in the classroom, according to Prof. Melissa Stimell (SJSP), the chair of the program in Social Justice and Social Policy. Stimell wrote in an email to the Justice that the SJSP program “brings together an unusually broad spectrum of faculty, supporting coursework in social justice, social research, social service, and social policy.” “The University encourages students to get involved and stay involved by both linking the academic
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Brandeis abroad
Driving hard
Castle renovations
Students took part in an innovative new summer session program that combined Art History and Studio Art.
The women's basketball team took their show overseas to Europe over the summer.
VP of Operations Jim Gray announced updates to the Castle's condition yesterday.
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EDITORIAL FEATURES
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OPINION POLICE LOG
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READER COMMENTARY
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