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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How are major policy decisions made? In Congress? In the Oval Office? In closed meetings of powerful elected and appointed officials? Well, yes. But that can be boring. And sometimes, I wonder if our leaders realize this. Maybe when the C-Span cameras turn off, the real decisions are made in less formal settings. This sort […]
I read Bret Matthew’s recent follow up (“Losing my religion: a follow-up,” October 2 issue) to his column from almost a year ago (“Losing My religion: A rant about non-believing,” December 5 issue) with much introspection and joy. On a personal level, because my three years at Brandeis have been for me a similar spiritual […]
Yesterday, Student for Environmental Action proudly welcomed Mark Orlowski, director and founder of the Sustainable Endowment Institute, to campus. The Sustainable Endowment Institute is a nonprofit organization that grades universities using a “Green Report Card” based on sustainability ratings. One of these criteria is endowment transparency, or how accessible information about endowment investment holdings and […]
