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The Brandeis Catholic Chaplaincy welcomed Dr. Kevin Spicer, C.S.C., a professor at Stonehill College, to Brandeis Thursday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Week. He discussed Judeo-Christian relations in Germany before WWII, and drew on information from his most recent book, “Hitler’s Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism,” and from historical German archives. Spicer discussed the prejudices […]
Jewishfilm.2010 this week marked the thirteenth annual Jewish film festival sponsored by the National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF). The festival began with an on-campus screening and New England premiere of “Berlin ’36,” a film inspired by the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, and a talk with special guest Susan Bachrach, curator of “Nazi Olympics, Berlin […]
The first round of Student Union elections, including those for president, executive board members and representatives to the board of trustees, will take place Tuesday, April 13 beginning at midnight. The second round will take place later this month, with Senate elections Thursday, April 22. The election timeline is abbreviated compared to usual cycles after […]
The 2010 Census was distributed in residence halls yesterday as part of a national effort to collect a population count of residents in the United States. Officials in charge of organizing census distribution at Brandeis worked on-campus on Wednesday and Thursday this week. “The census folks are preparing packets for each student,” said Jeremy Leiferman, […]
Two finalists for the Sillerman Center’s Prize for Innovation in Philanthropy presented their proposals for increasing and spreading philanthropy on college campuses Thursday at the Heller School. The two groups, student organizations “Phront” and “Give!,” presented their ideas to a panel of judges who will award a prize of up to $8,000 to the student-led […]
President Obama’s new changes to federal student aid will not change the way students receive their federal Stafford loans but it will affect how much they pay and how long they will repay these loans. Changes will also allow more students to be eligible to receive federal Pell grants, educational funds given to students that […]
Beginning this week, Community Advisers will be distributing forms for the United States census to students across campus. Federal guidelines say that since Brandeis students live in Massachusetts the majority of the year, they will fill out the national count here. We cannot stress how important it is for students to fill out the census […]
The news that the administration cancelled half of the planned Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) programs did not come as a surprise to this editorial board. JBS coordinators extended the deadline and worked hard to sell their program, but in the end, the few students who actually knew the JBS programs existed could not justify the […]
IndieLouies a student festival through and through To the Editor, In preparation of the coming festival, and in light of the recent controversy, the IndieLouies committee would like to explain our purpose more clearly to Brandeis community. We are not withdrawing the statement on our Web site. We believe in what we said. It was […]
The Film, Television and Interactive Media program’s sneak preview of “The Front,” a Lifetime original movie, made for an entertaining evening, especially when coupled with the question-and-answer session which followed. The film, based on a novel by crime writer Patricia Cornwell, had a satisfyingly twisty plot, featured stellar acting and, apart from a few discordant […]
