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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman ’75 questioned the ethics of WikiLeaks and technology in journalism during an academic symposium to honor outgoing university President Jehuda Reinharz Dec. 15, 2010 in the Shapiro Campus Center. Friedman, who writes many columns on politics and globalization, said that he was torn about whether WikiLeaks was justified to […]
The indoor track and tennis courts in the Gosman Athletic Center were replaced during winter break after the NCAA determined the surfaces unplayable under the University Athletic Association’s standards. “The surface was worn and tired and there were safety issues,” Senior Vice President for Administration Mark Collins said. “If you quickly changed directions on the […]
The Brandeis men ended their 11-game winning streak Sunday when the 13th-ranked team lost 53-52 to Carnegie Mellon University. The Judges, who were 4-0 in games decided by a bucket or less, had the final offensive possession of the contest, but the Tartans blocked rookie Ben Bartoldus’ runner in the lane. Brandeis falls to 11-1, […]
Welcome back to another semester at Brandeis. For those of you who kept track last semester, my weekly picks ended with a record of 54-29, not bad at all. Rather than merely make picks for the two games this week, I thought I might offer a preview of the match-ups. Interestingly enough, in the case […]
At their annual Reggie Poyau Memorial Invitational, the Brandeis men’s indoor track and field team had three victories and placed third overall while the Brandeis women’s indoor track and field team won four events to finish in second place out of five teams. The only multiple winner of the day for Brandeis men’s was rookie […]
Despite a busy travel schedule this year, university President Fred Lawrence said that student financial aid will remain “the top priority” of his administration. Lawrence explained that aid to undergraduates and stipends to graduate students are crucial to the university. “That is a major part of our fabric,” Lawrence said during an interview in his […]
President Fred Lawrence announced qualifications he will consider in candidates for the new university provost and senior vice president for students and enrollment following the December final report by the Administration Structure Advisory Committee (ASAC). Before naming a senior vice president for students and enrollment, Lawrence and an ad-hoc search committee will recruit for the […]
Three-thousand miles from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ (D) southern Arizona district, the Tucson attack on the congresswoman and her constituents nonetheless reached the Brandeis community in a personal way. Ben Zimmerman, a first-year international economics and finance student at the International Business School (IBS), is the brother of the late Gabe Zimmerman, an aide of Giffords’ […]
Waltham Police charged a Brandeis student on Dec. 8 with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, negligent driving, failure to slow for pedestrians and speeding following a Dec. 3 incident that sent two female students to local hospitals. A student driving on Loop Road struck and injured two female students on Dec. 3, […]
