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The university’s counsel is evaluating the possibility of changing the Massachusetts state laws governing endowment spending, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Peter French said at a student press conference yesterday. Questions about the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) arose at last week’s student forum with university President Jehuda Reinharz. “Our […]
The Board of Trustee’s authorization for the university to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its collection has been met with disbelief, outrage and protest from both within the Brandeis community and beyond. The reactions of people who cannot comprehend the decision the Board made have been the topic of tens of national headlines in the past two weeks.
Less well heard, however, are the voices of community members who dislike the decision, but understand the difficulties…
Undergraduate applications are down 14 percent this year despite plans for the first-year class of 2013 to include 75 more students than previous first-year classes, Dean of Admissions Gil Villanueva said. Villanueva, who said that Brandeis is not the only university experiencing a drop in applications, attributed the drop to the national recession. “Early analysis […]
Image Gallery: “Collective Guilt?” Award-winning “The Reader” author Bernhard Schlink discussed his new book “Guilt About the Past” and the intergenerational nature of collective guilt on Tuesday. Schlink, who is German, lectured on the reasons why a person or a group of people can become intertwined with a criminal’s guilt, at an event sponsored by […]
Students running in this week’s Student Union elections were not allowed to use mobile polling as a campaign strategy after Student Union Secretary Tia Chatterjee ’09 banned the tactic. Chatterjee wrote in an e-mail to The Hoot that she decided to ban mobile polling stations when she learned that Executive Senator Andrew Brooks ’09 had […]
The Department of Residence Life announced in an e-mail to the student body last week that a new gender neutral housing policy will be put into effect for room selection in March. Students living in rooms, suits and apartments on mixed-gender floors in sophomore, junior and senior areas will be able to choose whomever they […]
Dean of Academic Services Kim Godsoe announced in an e-mail Friday that the decision to rescind merit aid portability for study abroad is being reviewed by a committee comprised of students, faculty and administration. The review comes after students were outraged by a Jan. 16 e-mail that said that students would “not receive any form […]
The Clubs in Service Initiative, a joint project of the Student Union and the Waltham group in which clubs participate in community service projects, held their first informational meeting on Monday. Following Student Union President Jason Gray’s (’10) call to action in his state of the Union address at the end of the Fall ’08 […]
In an e-mail to the entire campus community, university President Jehuda Reinharz expressed regret over not finding a more “inclusive and open way to engage the Brandeis community in the deliberations that led to the Board [of Trustees’] decision” regarding the Rose Art Museum. And for this message, Reinharz should be commended. However, in the […]
As news of the university’s worsening financial straits surfaced, thoughts turned to the endowment. Currently, the laws in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prohibit the spending of endowment principal and instead restrict endowment spending to gains. In light of the current economic climate, some Massachusetts organizations are supporting a change from UMIFA, the Uniform Management of […]
