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Boston lawyer and Brandeis alum David Bunis ’83 has been named chief of staff to President Fred Lawrence, who met Bunis while both men were working on the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Civil Rights Committee. There has never before been a chief of staff at Brandeis for any past president at Brandeis. Bunis will “manage and […]
University President Fred Lawrence will teach a seminar in the fall called “Punishment and Crime” that will focus on issues related to hate crime and self-defense, Senior Vice President for Communications and External Affairs Andrew Gully wrote in an e-mail. “If you don’t let me teach, it’s like shutting off my oxygen,” Lawrence said during […]
Despite a citation issued by the Waltham Police for the criminal charges against a Brandeis student following a hit and run last month, the Waltham District Court has no record of the individual’s name in its system, an official in the clerk’s office said. Waltham Police charged a Brandeis student on Dec. 8, 2010 with […]
Despite a busy travel schedule this year, university President Fred Lawrence said that student financial aid will remain “the top priority” of his administration. Lawrence explained that aid to undergraduates and stipends to graduate students are crucial to the university. “That is a major part of our fabric,” Lawrence said during an interview in his […]
President Fred Lawrence announced qualifications he will consider in candidates for the new university provost and senior vice president for students and enrollment following the December final report by the Administration Structure Advisory Committee (ASAC). Before naming a senior vice president for students and enrollment, Lawrence and an ad-hoc search committee will recruit for the […]
Three-thousand miles from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ (D) southern Arizona district, the Tucson attack on the congresswoman and her constituents nonetheless reached the Brandeis community in a personal way. Ben Zimmerman, a first-year international economics and finance student at the International Business School (IBS), is the brother of the late Gabe Zimmerman, an aide of Giffords’ […]
Waltham Police charged a Brandeis student on Dec. 8 with leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, negligent driving, failure to slow for pedestrians and speeding following a Dec. 3 incident that sent two female students to local hospitals. A student driving on Loop Road struck and injured two female students on Dec. 3, […]
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested on South Street outside of Brandeis University today to “send a message to Jews that they have to obey their God and atone for their sins,” the Kansas-based church group’s leader Shirley Phelps said, while up on the Brandeis campus, students celebrated their diverse campus. The seven Church […]
In response to plans by the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) to picket South Street Friday to “remind [Brandeis’] Jews that they bear the curse of their forefather’s murder of Christ,” the newly formed Celebrate Brandeis Committee plans to hold a public address Friday on the Great Lawn and festivities throughout the day to present what […]
Outgoing university President Jehuda Reinharz and future university President Frederick Lawrence relived their senior experiences at a senior-only event held in The Rose Art Museum Thursday night designed to inspire members of the class of 2011 to give to their senior class gift. Seniors in the audience were invited to ask the presidents any question […]
