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The Brandeis women’s fencing team managed a 2-2 split in last weekend’s Duke Invitational in Durham, North Carolina, while the men’s team dropped all four of its matches. The men’s competition, which was held on Saturday, started with a 16-11 loss to the University of North Carolina. The sabre and epee squads lost by identical […]
While the board of trustees was announcing the upcoming academic cuts on Jan. 20, eight fine arts majors were posting signs around campus reminding students of the cut they say was made to their academics one year earlier. “FYI: The Rose is still FOR SALE,” the signs read. Last year when the university board of […]
The forecast for this weekend? Well, it appears that love is in the air. Or so the commercial powers that be—you know, the greeting card and chocolate industries that fuel Valentine’s Day—tell us. So what better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a film chronicling this romantic event? I know what you’re thinking: this […]
New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner spoke to the Brandeis community Tuesday about the necessity of objective reporting in Israel, and the difficulties reporters face in pursuit of it, in the International Lounge of the Usdan Student Center. Bronner explained to his audience how he tries to report on two opposing narratives, Jewish-Israeli […]
The Brandeis 2020 Committee will announce its proposed academic cuts on Feb. 24, the committee’s chair Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe told Thursday’s faculty meeting. The 2020 Committee has three major criteria for deciding which academic programs should remain intact: Programs needed in order to maintain Brandeis’ standing as a respectable research and […]
The Union Judiciary (UJ) voted to remove former Union Secretary Diana Aronin ’11 from office Sunday following last week’s impeachment trial. The ruling by the UJ found in favor of the senate which claimed Aronin “willfully corrupted and violated the duties set forth to her in the Constitution.” According to the Union Constitution, in order […]
The executive search firm Storbeck Pimentel & Associates will aid the Brandeis Presidential Search Committee in its quest to find the next university president, the committee announced via their Web site Monday. The committee will be directly working with the firm’s managing partner Shelly Storebeck and partner Chuck Bunting. Prof. Len Saxe (NJES), chair of […]
