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Former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Peter French received more than $3.2 million in reportable compensation in 2010, in large part because illness forced him to retire earlier than expected, a university spokesman said. His total reportable compensation is listed at $3,225,538 on the university’s 990 form, part of its federal tax filings […]
As students return to Brandeis, they will notice a number of improvements around campus: new sidewalks between the Castle and East, and a new entry floor in the Shapiro Admissions Center. More than 23 bathrooms in East Quad were renovated, and new steam pipes were installed in North Quad. Buildings were made more energy efficient, […]
Activists have called for probes into allegedly brutal police conduct during the break-up of a protest at a West Virginia mine last month where Dorian Williams ’12 was among those arrested. The July 28 protest was designed to stop production at Hobet Mines in West Virginia. Twenty protesters were arrested after refusing to leave at […]
Provost Steve Goldstein hired Christopher Bedford, Wexner Center for the Arts curator, as the newest director of The Rose Art Museum, the university announced last month. His appointment ends the long search to fill the position, vacant since the departure of former director, Michael Rush, following the university’s aborted 2009 decision to sell its collection […]
Even with finals looming, the final weekend in April proved truly incredible. In part, this was because the Leonard Bernstein Festival for the Creative Arts brought art, dance and music to venues across campus. Meanwhile, a number of theater productions were being staged alongside the semester shows of countless clubs. To top it all off, […]
Brandeis will sell its university-owned home on Beaumont Avenue in Newton and rent an apartment in the renovated Waltham Watch Factory for President Fred Lawrence and his wife, Kathy, officials announced earlier this month. After the board of trustees voted in March, authorizing the university to sell the Newton residence at 66 Beaumont Ave. where […]
Students for a Democratic Society joined with their peers in a group led by Professor Gordon Fellman (SOC) hosted a teach-in in the Shapiro Campus Center atrium on Tuesday. This teach-in incorporated a series of speakers as part of the group’s Occupy Brandeis Spring Week. Fellman’s team spent six weeks organizing the teach-in. The idea […]
Samuel Edward “Eddie” Hatch—my grandfather—has lived a long time, 86 years. None was as pivotal in the story of his life as the year 1944. It is a story my family knows well. Teddy Booras, his best friend and army “buddy,” switched tasks with my grandfather and offered to clean their barracks at Sloane Court […]
Elections were initially planned for Thursday, from midnight to midnight, but due to short notice in scheduling e-mail lists with LTS, were postponed until 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon. Current Student Union President Herbie Rosen ’12 felt it was necessary to still allow the students a full 24 hours to vote, pushed the poll closing to […]
“In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)”: The show with two possible titles leaves the audience wondering what the show is about. It could either prove that the audience member in question has a dirty mind, or just prove that the audience member was naive in not expecting this from a Brandeis theater production. […]
