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The executive search firm Storbeck Pimentel & Associates will aid the Brandeis Presidential Search Committee in its quest to find the next university president, the committee announced via their Web site Monday. The committee will be directly working with the firm’s managing partner Shelly Storebeck and partner Chuck Bunting. Prof. Len Saxe (NJES), chair of […]
Student Union Secretary Diana Aronin ’11 attempted to stave off her possible impeachment Sunday evening, defending herself before the Union Judiciary in a case that has pitted two Union organs against each other. Aronin argued she deserves to remain in office because the proposal she was supposed to have called for a vote was already […]
In an unexpected twist, the impeachment trial of Student Union Secretary Diana Aronin ’11 will be decided by four Union Judiciary justices—not five—after the resignation of former Associate Justice Leeyat B. Slyper ’11, who is currently on medical leave, according to an e-mail to The Hoot from Chief Justice Judah Marans ’11. Despite the absence […]
The Presidential Search Committee will be delayed in choosing a search firm, which it was supposed to have done by the end of January, due to a change in Committee leadership. Meyer Koplow ’72 announced earlier this week he would step down as chair of the Presidential Search Committee after a member of the Brandeis […]
Following a traffic incident last semester involving a student on a bike at the South Street crosswalk near the Foster Mods and Gosman Athletic Center, Brandeis Public Safety joined with the Waltham Police Department and began a campaign to protect pedestrians. The crosswalk, which has been the site of several accidents over the past few […]
U.S. News and World Report recently dubbed Usen Castle one of the eight “coolest dorms in the nation” also including dorms at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Virginia, and College of William and Mary. Usen Castle, built in 1928, predates the founding of the university, making it the oldest building on campus. It was […]
The university will be forced to make cuts to its academic commitments in response to what Board of Trustees member Meyer Koplow ’72 called a “$25 million ongoing budget shortfall in the typical year” at a special faculty meeting Wednesday evening. Such cuts could include the “phasing out” of entire majors or Master’s or PhD […]
Portions of the Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) application are available on the JBS website and the complete application will be available by next week. Admissions to the program will be on a rolling first-come, first-serve basis beginning Jan. 29. “The online application will be available shortly but in the meantime, students will be able to […]
The Brandeis Health Center has recieved another batch of H1N1 flu vaccines, according to a Jan. 7 e-mail sent to the Brandeis community by Vice President and Dean of Students Rick Sawyer. The vaccine is now readily available at the Center free of charge by appointment. It takes several days for the the vaccine to […]
Part tribute and part bitter criticism, Lev Grossman’s novel “The Magicians” reads as a commentary on the fantasy books that bewitched us as children, in the process stripping them of their magic. Unfortunately, this tale does not stand on its own because the author has focused more on defining what the novel is not—it is […]
