The 3rd Wavelength

Klibanoff covers “The Race Beat,” then and now

Pulitzer-Prize winning author and journalist Hank Klibanoff spoke to a packed audience in the Pollack auditorium on Thursday on the role of journalism in the Civil Rights movement in a lecture entitled “The Race Beat: Then and Now.” Klibanoff also covered his current involvement in uncovering evidence about unsolved crimes dating back to the early […]

UPMIFA could bring financial flexibility, but not reduce needs for budget cut

Brandeis administrators are evaluating how the recent passing of a Massachusetts law governing endowment spending could affect the university’s financial policy. But even if the Board of Trustees adapts the university’s financial policy to the Universal Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA), the university will still need to implement budget cuts to close the […]

Small Reitman fire momentarily evacuates residents

Residents of Reitman Residence Hall in the North Quad were evacuated to Polaris Lounge for approximately an hour and a half at 4 a.m. Thursday morning after a small fire was started on the second floor of the building, Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan said. No one was injured by the fire, which was […]

Students will be involved in presidential search, but not on search committee

Though Board of Trustees Chair Malcolm Sherman has promised that faculty and students will be involved in the search for the next president of the university, the capacity to which they will be involved on the actual search committee is yet to be determined. Sherman said he aims to formulate a presidential search committee of […]

IDF conscientious objectors explain reasons for rejecting military service

Two women who refused to serve in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) spoke to a full audience in Pearlman Hall on Monday night in an event organized by the Brandeis club Students for Justice in Palestine Maya Wind and Neta Mishly, high school seniors who work with the Shministim Tour in conjunction with the Code […]

$2.2 million grant helps buy microscope for research

Brandeis received a grant for $2.2 million on Sept. 7 to buy a new electron microscope that will be installed in the spring of 2010. The grant from the National Institute of Health will cover the expense of purchasing the microscope, however the university will spend about $50,000 in renovating the room that will house […]

Public safety shares crime statistics via e-mail

The Department of Public Safety has begun using e-mail instead of snail mail in order to send information to students about the campus’ crime rates and security policies, as required by the Jeanne Clery Act of federal law. In 1986, Jeanne Clery, a student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, was raped and murdered in her […]

Editorial: Waiting for Godot’s donation

Last spring, when non-profit organizations all over the country were clamoring for the passing of the Universal Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, better known by the catchy acronym UPMIFA, this editorial board set forth the opinion that UPMIFA could not be a panacea. And now that UPMIFA has been passed by the commonwealth of […]

Editorial: Opening an honest dialogue on sexual assault

According to a report of crime statistics disseminated by the Department of Public Safety, there were two forcible sex crimes on the Brandeis campus in 2008. Given that sexual assaults are chronically under reported, the actual incidence of sexual violence on our campus is likely higher. In light of the ubiquity of sexual assault, one […]