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Volume LXIX, Number 19
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TEAM TRIVIA
Task Force looks at library’s role in new requirements ■ Faculty and staff
pitched digitial literacy recommendations for life skills curriculum additions. By Abby patkin JUSTICE editor
As the Task Force on General Education finalizes its proposal for new curricular themes, members of the library staff and faculty met in an open forum on Wednesday to discuss how the library might fit into the proposed requirements. During the discussion with Task Force members, a group of faculty and staff members — primarily library employees — considered how the proposed classes and curricular themes would draw upon
library resources. Assistant Director of Research Technology and Innovation Ian Roy ’05 wondered how the MakerLab, which he manages, could be used in proposed changes like the digital literacy requirement. Similarly, Mark Dellelo, the digital media lab manager, asked how the Getz Media Lab might factor into these requirements. Task Force member and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Elaine Wong said that the Task Force will further consider how resources like the MakerLab and Getz Media Lab could supplement traditional classroom learning. Wong also noted that online modules, under the proposal, could feature heavily in the Health, Well-
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administration
Winship reflects on decades of fundraising for the University ■ A longtime University
executive and proud mother of two alumni decided to transition to a new role. By Abby patkin JUSTICE editor
Working 80+ hour weeks and traveling up to 33 weeks of the year never bothered Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement Nancy Winship. “I guess I’m a competitive person,” she laughed, looking back on over 23 years of fundraising for the University. “It’s been a labor of love; it’s been a joy.” Winship, who joined the University in 1994, will be transitioning to a new role on campus: Chief Philanthropic Advisor to the President, effective June 30.
Winship explained that she decided to take a step back with this new position to spend more time with her family. She recalled the clash in schedules when her husband Winship Christopher, who taught at Harvard, would take sabbaticals, telling him jokingly, “‘Your sabbaticals are getting in the way of my work.’” In the Office of Institutional Advancement, Winship has helped raise more than $1.5 billion, with $1.2 billion of those funds raised together with former University President Jehuda Reinharz, who served from 1994 to 2010, according to a Jan. 18 BrandeisNOW article.
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Teams of students went head to head and exhibited their wits in Student Activities’ trivia night at The Stein on Thursday night, with gift card prizes up for grabs.
CAMPUS SPEAKER
Scholar narrates the historical refugee crisis ■ Visiting professor Linda
Rabben spoke on history's sanctuary and asylum movements around the world. By Peri Meyers JUSTICE Senior Writer
Today’s traditions of sanctuary and asylum date back millennia, said Linda Rabben on Wednesday, speaking not only on the world’s history of sanctuary and asylum but also on what can be done today amid the current tide of mass migration. An anthropology professor at the University of Maryland, Rabben talked about the contents of her most recent book, “Sanctuary and Asylum: A Social and Political History.” “If I had written this book only about government policies, I wouldn’t have finished it, because I would have found it so depressing to write about,” said Rabben. “But what gives me hope are the many social movements which just explode when there are repressive
measures that governments take.” In the United States, some of the most famous acts of sanctuary have operated outside the legal system, said Rabben, citing the 19th-century Underground Railroad and the 1980s Sanctuary movement. In the latter movement, Rabben explained, over 400 religious congregations sheltered people fleeing violent U.S.-backed regimes in Central America. At the time, Rabben said, it was nearly impossible for those people to apply for, not to mention receive, federal asylum. Religious activists in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California did everything out in the open, knowing that they would be prosecuted for violating U.S. immigration law. Given the choice between going to jail or ceasing and desisting, the congregants and clergy chose the former, arguing that they were answering to a higher power. Rabben brought up the current movement to make university campuses into sanctuaries for refugees and undocumented immigrants. Some cities and campuses have declared a
“non-cooperation policy” given the increasing fraughtness of the term “sanctuary city” and any variants. Though certain universities fear being defunded by the current administration, Rabben said, it is “very difficult” to take funds away from them. She then showed a picture of a fence along the southern U.S. border. “All walls and fences do eventually come to an end, including this one,” she said, noting that there is far more to crossing the border than jumping a fence. On the U.S. side, there are sensors in the ground to detect movement, along with frequent border patrols. “Anybody that says that we have open borders and that people can come in without anybody stopping them is not telling you the truth,” said Rabben. Even so, she added, walls and fences are not foolproof: “Desperate people will find ways to get around any barrier.” Rabben recited Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus,” best known for its place at the base of the
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Exploring Acid
Off the Glass
Business Women
Filmmaker Hamilton Morris looks at the story of one of the most famous psychedelic chemists.
The men’s basketball team ended their season with a tight win.
Joann Lublin of the Wall Street Journal interviewed the nation's top women executives.
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