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Brandeis University played host to the 2010 University Athletic Association Indoor Track and Field Championships on March 5 and 6, and the hometown squads finished the week with their heads held high. The Brandeis men took two UAA titles over the meet, and the women had 15 point-scoring performances in the final tune-up before this […]
After two exciting victories last weekend in the first and second round of the NCAA Division III tournament, the Judges have moved onto sectional. This is the second time Brandeis has reached the Sweet Sixteen under head coach Brian Meehan. The Judges kicked off the weekend in Rochester on Friday night when they faced the […]
The Brandeis baseball team is participating in the University Athletic Association Tournament down in Sanford, Florida this week. The team will play six games total between Tuesday March 9 and Saturday March 13. The Judges kicked off the tournament against the Emory University Eagles. In the top of the first the Eagles got their first […]
On April 11, the Student Union will host a half-marathon across the Brandeis campus. The event is being organized by Union Vice President Amanda Hecker ’10 and Phi Kappa Psi President Justin Meltzer ’11. The Facebook event created to advertise the event will say the race is being “cosponsored” by both the Union and the […]
Have you seen the new Mandel Center for the Humanities? Towering above Rabb Academic Quad, the new building stands out, its clean, red brick and shining glass windows contrasting sharply with the dreary concrete slabs at its rear. When complete, the new building will join an array of stand-alone edifices of differing architectural style that […]
University Provost Marty Krauss has approved all 17 of the Brandeis 2020 Committee’s proposals to suspend or restructure academic programs in order to save the university $3.8 million annually beginning in 2012. Krauss also altered the Committee’s original proposal to terminate the Ph.D. program in Anthropology and has instead proposed that the program “be retained […]
The Constitutional Review Committee Sunday night released its proposals to amend the Student Union Constitution, which include a complete overhaul of the Union Senate’s structure. The proposals were approved by the Senate directly following their release and will now be put to a student body vote on March 18. If the proposals are passed, the […]
The ceiling and wall of a Schwartz Hall dorm room on Castle Quad caved in Saturday scattering metal, drywall and concrete. The room’s resident Kiernan Bagge ’12 was not injured by the damage because he spent the night in a different dorm room after being relocated by the Department of Community Living (DCL) for what […]
Despite its charge to alleviate the university’s budget crisis, the Brandeis 2020 Committee has proposed to indefinitely suspend the revenue-positive Cultural Productions Masters’ program. The program, which was created in 2006 for the purpose of providing the university with additional revenue, has a gross profit of $100,000 per year for the university’s Graduate School of […]
