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The student body elected senators to the Student Union Thursday with 18 percent turnout, but even with a new skip option in voting, three of the five seats on the Judiciary were left vacant due to abstain votes. Three other senate seats were also left vacant and a new election date will be announced soon, […]
Food is a popular point of contention at Brandeis and Aramark, the company that provides it, which garners criticism both for the quality of the food and its business practices. Students enjoy repeatedly pointing out that Aramark also serves prisons, which is true. It does not, however, serve the same food to Brandeis as it […]
A Brandeis professor is researching the history of slavery dating back to ancient times with a team that has acquired information from such varied sources as Greek or Latin graves, papyrus and tax receipts of antiquity to uncover the lives of enslaved women and their female owners as well. Professor Bernadette Brooten (NEJS), an authority […]
Police found three men dead after an apparent homicide in a Waltham apartment Monday afternoon, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said, and a Brandeis alum was among the victims. The deaths of Brendan Mess, 25, of Waltham; Erik Weissman, 31, of Cambridge; and Raphael Teken, 37, of Cambridge, who graduated from Brandeis in 1998 and […]
While other students began to wind down from a long week of classes and prepare for the weekend, Emily Troge ’14 and Abby Hirsch ’14 spent last Friday organizing the first trunk show for Rent the Runway at Brandeis. That morning, five young national representatives drove from New York City to help set up the […]
The Office of Study Abroad promoted its programs during the annual study abroad fair in Levin Ballroom on Thursday. It’s main initiative was to promote the new spring semester Hague program and another new program in Israel run jointly with Middlebury College. The study abroad fair was also the venue of the debut of Wander, […]
The Student Union seeks to improve the overall morale of students on campus and help club leaders access the university resources at their disposal, President Herbie Rosen ’12 said this week, as the Union set a new agenda for the academic year. Thursday evening, the Student Union welcomed four new senators, at the first senate […]
Dr. Anita Hill, professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at the Heller School has taken a position at the Cohen, Milstein, Sellers and Toll law firm based in Washington, D.C. She will serve as counsel in the large firm and plans to remain a professor at Brandeis. Hill, who first gained national attention […]
“In the state of Israel, someone does not have sex with prostitutes but rapes sex slaves.” Rabbi Levi Lauer, the founding executive director of ATZUM-Justice Works, reiterated this point repeatedly Tuesday at a lecture he gave at Brandeis University titled “When Hope Ends in Slavery: Human Trafficking in Israel.” The lecture was sponsored by the […]
Administrators who have recently introduced the first-year writing assessment would do well to reconsider the scheme. Under new rules, first-years entering Brandeis must complete an online writing assessment, which is timed for most students, in the summer preceding the start of their first classes. These are the same students who braved the writing portion of […]
