Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Brandeis is home to a large scientific research center, making strides in cancer, aging and circadian rhythms and, in order to comprehend these scientific systems, animals are often used in the research, a process that animal rights groups such as PETA oppose. Though the animal rights activists have named Brandeis as one of the country’s […]
Treasurer Daniel Lee ’12 noticed more than $600 was missing from the Student Union safe last month. Now a lack or urgency in communication among Union officers, university officials and employees at a private security firm that monitors the Union’s video camera surveillance footage leaves a multitude of questions with few answers.
A university police officer and one other man died from gunshot wounds at Virginia Tech early Thursday afternoon, less than five years after the campus suffered the deadliest school shooting in the nation’s history. The April 2007 massacre that left 33 students dead sparked new debates at colleges across the country, including here at Brandeis, […]
President Herbie Rosen emphasized transparency, efficiency and reforms in financing and voting methods in his first State of the Union address Thursday evening, calling the State of the Union address a “town hall forum,” and urging students to voice their concerns at the open forum following the speech. More than 50 students and administrators attended […]
Brandeis this year saw its acceptance rate increase and then matriculation rate yield of those accepted students fall compared to last year’s class, Senior Vice President of Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel announced at Thursday’s faculty meeting as part of the annual presentation on the statistics for the incoming class. The 39.99 percent acceptance rate […]
As Brandeis emerges from the economic recession onto stable financial foundations, Waltham Mayor Jeannette A. McCarthy said she hopes to begin a conversation with President Fred Lawrence.
When President Lawrence announced last spring that the class of 2015 would be accepted on a completely need-blind basis, it begged the question what the class would look like if this were the case. New Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel said that the university’s new class profile, which he will formally […]
When people think of Brandeisians, they think of students who are passionate, driven and deeply connected to a variety of activities. Brandeis does have approximately 250 student-run clubs and organizations on campus, ranging from community service to performing arts to Quidditch. Sometimes, however, students feel they can get a little too attached to their clubs […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For three weeks, Harvard students have inhabited tents, occupying their campus not only in solidarity with other protests around the country, but also to demand changes to their own university, which is one of the ivy-covered institutions that have historically educated the children of the top 1 percent or less. Protesters have, […]
Students will never be particularly angry about grade inflation, but it creates contention between faculty and staff, who argue about the solutions, culprits and the question of its existence.
