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The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society (B.A.D.A.S.S.) is now ranked third in the nation, following victories at the Providence College and University of Connecticut tournaments last weekend. Brandeis trails behind only Columbia and Yale in the national rankings. At the Providence College tournament last weekend, B.A.D.A.S.S. prevailed with wins from Keith Barry ’13 and […]
Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada, an independent nonprofit that provides information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, believes a one-state solution is not something to be afraid of after all. His lecture, titled “Who is Afraid of the One State Solution,” was the keynote address of Brandeis Apartheid week, in past years called Israeli Occupation Awareness Week, […]
This upcoming academic year will especially put pressures on the already limited housing arrangement since the class of 2015 is the largest class Brandeis has seen thus far. Although it varies year to year, Rosenthal typically fills up once the housing lottery reaches number 50 and the Village is filled by around number 115, explained […]
Official crime reporting at Brandeis highlights only a trace amount of severe misconduct in recent years, which the university routinely deals with internally, rarely referring incidents to outside law enforcement. “We’re like our own little city here,” Associate Dean of Student Life Maggie Balch said of Brandeis’ student conduct management. Crime itself is very rare […]
Under a new “third” plan released Wednesday to bridge the MBTA’s budget gap and prevent service cuts, Brandeis students could be forced to dish out an annual $10 commuter rail fee while the university would be asked to make a payment of $50,000 to keep its name on the Brandeis/Roberts station. The three-member MBTA Advisory […]
Under mounting pressure for seeking large cuts in transport service, the MBTA has released a subsequent proposal with a range of alternatives to make up the budget shortfall. We applaud the attempt, which has steps that would be a great improvement to loss of service. The authority suggested a 50-cent surcharge on concert tickets, as […]
One year after a student suicide rattled the Brandeis community, Feb. 15 holds a new meaning for Manny Zahonet ’14. On his birthday last year, Zahonet returned to his first-year residence hall to find district attorney investigators questioning students and chaplains escorting others to the Psychological Counseling Center in the early morning hours. For Zahonet, […]
Professor Clayborne Carson of the African-American Studies Department at Stanford University came to Brandeis on Tuesday to receive the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize. The award, named in honor of the late sociology professor Joseph Gittler and his mother Toby Gittler, recognizes “outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations” according […]
As the Brandeis community celebrated ’Deis Impact this week, the university’s first festival of social justice, we were reminded that service in a community must begin at the local level before it extends to the global one. We applaud students for organizing the festival. And we hope that it will serve as a reminder to […]
As Israel debates whether to launch a preemptive strike against the rising threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued security alerts and warnings to Brandeis University and other Boston-area sites, Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan said. “All it takes is a little information to put people on high […]
