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Standing behind the bleachers in Red Auerbach Arena Thursday evening as the Judges racked up a 28-point victory over Emerson College, Andrew Flagel talked about a re-energized athletic pride and a university filled with unique, untraditional school spirit. Flagel, the university’s senior vice president for students and enrollment and top student life official, previously served […]
Earlier this month veteran chemistry Professor Irving Epstein (CHEM) was named senior adviser for research by Provost Steve Goldstein, in what is only the most recent of several new appointments under the chief academic officer in recent months. Under former Provost Marty Krauss, the first such of recent jobs created was that of Professor Dan […]
Relay for Life and the International Club hosted the Rumba dance in Levin Ballroom on Saturday, holding it in place of last year’s Pachanga, which university officials canceled after two students were arrested and nine others were hospitalized for alcohol intoxication. The number of students detained last weekend was much lower than last year’s. Late […]
The Brandeis International Business School (IBS) welcomed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to campus Monday to open the fourth annual New England-Israel Business Council’s 2011 Data Storage & Security Summit. The event brought business and technology leaders from both New England and Israel together to discuss issues of international trade. Just one week after addressing the […]
As early as Sept. 17 of this year, Occupy Wall Street and its numerous offshoot movements have been demanding the world’s attention. This week, Occupy Wall Street has taken to the road on a journey called “Occupy The Highway: The 99 percent March to Washington.”
When Politico reported late last month that two women had accused presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment while employed under him during his time at the helm of the lobbying group the National Restaurant Association, it threw the already unsettled Republican field into further disarray: Cain called the accusations “a high-tech lynching.” The infamous […]
Inside the walls of MIT, a university known for its world-class innovation and research, a close community of students and staff must now confront the tragedy of two suicides in two months. Satto Tonegawa and Nicholas Del Castillo were two talented musicians and promising students, each found dead in their dorm rooms. Tonegawa was found […]
The African and Afro-American Studies (AAAS) department began looking for a new chair this year despite the university’s plans to turn the department into a program and reduce resources under the 2008 Curriculum and Academic Restructuring (CARS) Plan.
At the recent Experiential Learning Expo on Oct. 25, students back from abroad, fresh off an internship or relying on other forms of non-traditional education presented their experiences to mostly like-minded fellow learners. But the university is heavily pushing this “experiential learning,” and it extends beyond the obvious out-of-classroom potential of studying in a foreign […]
As exemplified by the concept of “Republican motherhood” and Sarah Palin’s recent “hockey mom” campaign, motherhood has long been associated with a set of moral values or ideals thought to translate into more pressing issues of political significance. Professor Jill S. Greenlee (POL) has explored the connection between motherhood and its possible implications within the […]
