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Archive for 2009

Chili Peppers’ guitarist shreds into new territory

John Frusciante has always seemed badly out-of-place in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. As the band’s guitarist and backup vocalist, he is responsible for a string of increasingly generic and commericalized albums, yet he has a deep love of experimental music.. His bandmates have a reputation as attention-grabbing superstars, yet he maintains a reserved, quiet […]


Brandeis Interracial Dating Event

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Thursday’s forum on academic restructuring

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Tuesday’s student forum at the Rose Art museum

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University Admin consults PR firm about media woes

MEET THE PRESS: President Reinharz reflects on his handling of the media in the wake of the Board of Trustee’s authorization of the closing of the Rose Art Museum.<br /><br /><i>PHOTO BY Max Shay/The Hoot</i>University President Reinharz clarified what he called “misperceptions picked up by the press” at a student press conference yesterday, saying that the university’s Board of Trustees never voted to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its collection.

Reinharz said that while the trustees authorized the administration to close the Rose in order to transition it into an art teaching and exhibition center, “the Board of Trustees resolution did not speak about the closing of the rose. The resolution said that we ought to find a way to integrate the roes more closely into the education mission of the university.”

“The board resolution never talked about selling the collection,” he continued…


Nonprofits push to change state endowment law

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 […]


In the midst of anger, understanding

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…


Undergrad applications for class of ‘13 drop 14 percent

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 […]


The Reader author speaks on collective guilt

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 […]


Mobile polling temporarily banned from elections

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 […]