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With the NCAA tournament bracket announcements this coming Monday, the Brandeis men’s basketball team is feeling the pressure. They have split their last two weekends to bring them to 18-6 overall and 8-5 in the University Athletic Association and have just one game remaining in the regular season. The Judges opened up play over February […]
The majority of Brandeis students entered mid-February break looking for a chance to get away, for a chance to relax. For the Brandeis women’s basketball team, there would be no break. There would be no chance to relax. With four games on tap during the hiatus that wasn’t (including one against each of the University […]
The Last Supper A group of 23 people sat and dined at a long, winding table. The group was mixed in age, race and personality, but they all shared one thing in common—their strong faith. As this group drank wine and broke bread together, they reveled in the past six days they’d all shared. Near […]
The Student Union Senate Social Justice Committee kicked off a semester-long fundraiser for charity:water Wednesday with coffee, donuts and a 5-gallon jug of water. The jug, representing unfit water drunk by people world-wide, was filled with water collected from Massell Pond by committee members Jackie Saffir ’10 and Ryan Fanning ’11. The project aims to […]
Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the university’s credit rating from a double A rating to a single A rating this week. This rating is used to inform investors on the open market of the risk involved with loaning funds, through the purchase of bonds, to the university. The drop in rating marks a move from an […]
International political scientist Arne Jungjohann presented continuing plans of the global green movement to the university’s Forum on Environmental Crisis at the Faculty Lounge Monday “Let us go around the room,” Jungjohann, who was on last December’s world climate conference in Copenhagen, said. “I ask you: ‘Was Copenhagen a success or a failure?’” Most participants, […]
The university will increase housing prices between the Spring 2010 and Fall 2010 semesters; however, the amount of the increase will not be determined until after the board of trustees’ budget discussion in May. “I don’t anticipate that the university’s going to be in the position to increase the rates to a really high level,” […]
The Brandeis community continued to raise money for Haiti this week with several events bringing it closer to the ultimate goal of $25,000 for the earthquake-struck nation with an additional incentive: Brandeis joins schools across the country in an initiative through Partners in Health (PIH) to match student donations raised before Sunday. PIH has collaborated […]
The solar panel installation on the roof of The Gosman Sports and Convocation Center is now turned on and collecting energy. NSTAR energy approved the installation in an inspection on Feb 24. In the past two days the panels have produced over fourteen thousand-kilowatt hours of energy. It is projected to produce approximately 300,000 hours […]
Investigative journalist E. Benjamin Skinner discussed modern slavery and working towards emancipation in a Social Justice Leadership lecture in Rapaporte Treasure Hall Monday. The lecture was sponsored by the Schuster Center for Investigative Journalism, where Skinner is a senior fellow. Skinner stressed that although there are more slaves than ever before in human history, the […]
