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Marketmatch Research is currently collecting numerical data in order to increase dining options for the Brandeis community. “It’s difficult for us as an organization to meet everyone’s needs, in the real world you don’t open up a business unless revenue wise it makes sense. We can’t put a café in every new building just because […]
The Brandeis Chaplaincy, Dean of Student Life Jamele Adams and University President Jehuda Reinharz denounced Friday’s vandalism of the Muslim Student Association’s (MSA) prayer space and lounge in Usdan Student Center. The identity of the vandals remain unknown. Adams, Reinharz and the chaplains, representing the Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim faiths, gathered in the Muslim […]
The Presidential Search Committee has received more than 50 applications to replace current university President Jehuda Reinharz, who announced his resignation in October. Search committee member Prof. Gregory Petsko (BIOL) told the faculty meeting Thursday that the committee is in the process of “making contact with the applicants to find out the level of interest […]
Students participating in the Fall Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) will now be allowed to live on-campus despite JBS’ initial mission to alleviate overcrowding by moving participating students off campus. JBS Program Manager Alyssa Grinberg said the change in housing is the exception to the rule and will only be in place for the upcoming fall […]
Professor Stephen Whitfield (AMST) gave a lecture Thursday evening regarding the history of Brandeis University. The program, titled Brandeis at the Beginning, highlighted early Brandeisian history from before the founding in 1948 to the end of the 1960s. Joyce Antler (AMST) introduced Whitfield, the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization, to a group that consisted […]
The ceiling and wall of a Schwartz Hall dorm room on Castle Quad caved in Saturday scattering metal, drywall and concrete. The room’s resident Kiernan Bagge ’12 was not injured by the damage because he spent the night in a different dorm room after being relocated by the Department of Community Living (DCL) for what […]
Despite its charge to alleviate the university’s budget crisis, the Brandeis 2020 Committee has proposed to indefinitely suspend the revenue-positive Cultural Productions Masters’ program. The program, which was created in 2006 for the purpose of providing the university with additional revenue, has a gross profit of $100,000 per year for the university’s Graduate School of […]
The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that a federal judge’s decision in the Bernard Madoff bankruptcy case could force Brandeis donor Carl Shapiro to return a portion of the $1 billion in profit from investments with Madoff. United States Bankruptcy Judge Burton R. Lifland ruled that Madoff’s victims can only claim the amount they first invested […]
Despite recent proposals to terminate or restructure 18 academic programs, the university’s students and faculty alike have been relatively accepting of the need for cuts. Caroline Grassi ’12 said at an open forum for undergraduate students Thursday that she “understands the need to cut.” “Considering our economic situation, I feel the Committee did a fairly […]
Brandeis’ cable television service provided by Comcast will not be affected by their transition to digital cable in the Waltham area, despite frequent warnings from the cable company during regular programing. John Turner, director of systems and networks for Library and Technolgy Services wrote in a myBrandeis post, “Don’t panic! Brandeis is NOT going to […]
