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Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.

January 2011 Issue

Men, women place at track tournament

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 […]


Leadership: New president shares goals, vision for univ

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 […]


Leadership: Lawrence outlines provost/SVP must-haves

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 […]


Tucson attack hits close to home

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’ […]


Brandeis student charged in hit and run that hospitalized two

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, […]