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After a seven-week search that left police baffled, Boston College senior Franco Garcia, 21, was found in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir on April 11. Police searched the reservoir for four days in February but came up empty-handed. Garcia was a chemistry major and played clarinet in the school band. He commuted from home and worked […]
Brandeis has instituted a system of emergency text messaging designed to send students “pre-defined messages to match the situation,” according to John Turner, director of networks and systems at LTS. After the initial message, he explained the system allows staff members “to send follow-up messages with more details.” Turner also stated how the system was […]
Dean Lisa Lynch of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management announced that this year’s commencement speaker will be Nobel Prize-winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Sen is the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; this year’s recipient of the National Humanities Medal; and Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy at […]
Even before prospective students check their mailboxes for acceptances and visit potential schools in an attempt to weigh their decision, admissions officers must decide which—and how many—students get the coveted acceptance letters. Further complicating matters is the fact that the class of 2015 is an unusually large class, with more than 900 students. This puts […]
Sarah Sobieraj, professor of Sociology at Tufts University and recent author of “Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism,” led a lecture titled “Covered: Activists, Journalists, and News in a Shifting Media Landscape” on Thursday afternoon in the Mandel Reading Room. She discussed the forms of rhetoric used by popular media and the “unsettling” relationship […]
In an area where one-fourth of the population is under the age of 21, Boston and surrounding cities are in a constant struggle with the overwhelming amount of underage college students using fake identification as a means to obtain alcohol. A recent study found that about 20 percent of all underage college students’ use or […]
Despite the university’s large Jewish population, Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan, said there is no cause for alarm after three children and a rabbi were shot and killed at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, on March 19. In response to the incident on Monday in which a man opened fire at the Ozar […]
As the global economy begins to reverse its descent, the Brandeis Global Green Initiative teaches MBA students not only how to make a profit, but how to do it responsibly. On March 13, the Brandeis International Business School hosted two eminent environmentalists—Eric Pooley, former deputy editor of BusinessWeek, who left the magazine to work at […]
As part of her 50th reunion gift, Linda Heller Kamm ’61 endowed a $1,000 annual award for an undergraduate student committed to advocating for career social justice. First exposed to injustice from her time growing up in segregated Miami Beach, Kamm explained that she established the prize to encourage students interested in pursuing public interest […]
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear a case of affirmative active in college admissions standards, it is unlikely any decision will radically change procedures at Brandeis, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel said. Even though Brandeis is a private university, it receives federal funding; therefore, the court’s decision in Fischer […]
