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Union Senate holds executive session for bribery bylaw debate

The Union Senate went into executive session on Sunday, despite protests from members of the campus media, to discuss a new bylaw amendment that would effectively outlaw bribery in Union elections. The Senate chose to go into executive session in an effort to avoid negative press coverage prior to Union elections. The bylaw amendment, which […]

Admissions not need-blind for all students

The university has decreased the number of merit scholarships allocated for the class of 2013, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy announced at the faculty meeting yesterday. Eddy explained that this decrease is necessary in order to “focus on financial need.” Yet while the university is need-blind when it comes to financial […]

Andy Hogan takes Union presidency

29 faculty urge administration to postpone final Rose decision

Twenty nine members of the university faculty urged university administrators to keep the Rose Art Museum open as a public museum until June 30, 2010 in an open letter to President Jehuda Reinharz and Provost Marty Krauss on Wednesday. The letter lists four concerns about the future of the museum; that the exhibitions currently in […]

Louis-Rosenberg explains dangers of Mountain Top Removal Mining

Whenever Mathew Louis-Rosenberg is asked for a one line summation of his work with the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Sludge Safety Project, a collaborative effort of Coal River Mountain Watch and other groups concerned with the harmful effects of Mountain Top Coal Mining, he simply responds: “people are dying – that’s the one […]

Genesis Group donates $10.8 mil. to create scholarship fund

The university received a $10.8 million dollar grant from the Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG) in order to establish a Brandeis Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry. The grant would provide scholarships for Russian-speaking Jews. The money will fund up to 60 undergraduates, 14 master’s degree candidates, six Ph.D candidates and 132 participants in Brandeis summer programs […]

“God Sleeps in Rwanda” provides insight on living with HIV after the Genocide

“[HIV medication] costs 550 Rwandan Francs. I make 551 Rwandan Francs a month. I cannot afford the medicine for my child,” Odette, the HIV positive mother of three living in rural Rwanda said into the camera. Having contracted the virus shortly after her marriage, Odette is lucky because only one of her three children has […]

Editorial: Practicing what we preach

Last Sunday, the Student Union considered a bylaw amendment which would ban forms of bribery in Student Union elections. In other words, the amendment would prevent Union candidates from promising favors and positions to others in exchange for support or for not contesting a candidate’s run. Many Executive Board positions, the spots most likely to […]

Editorial: Time to make a decision

Yesterday, 29 members of the faculty signed a letter urging President Jehuda Reinharz to keep the Rose Art Museum open through June of 2010. The letter came in response to indications that the museum would be effectively shuttered at the end of this academic year. Currently, there is a committee charged with determining the Rose’s […]