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The Boston Post Master General unveiled the new Justice Louis D. Brandeis commemorative stamp to almost 200 people at a ceremony held yesterday afternoon in front of the statue of the university’s namesake. Present at the ceremony were Justice Brandeis’ three grandchildren Alice Brandeis Popkin, Walter Brandeis Raushenbush and Frank Brandeis Gilbert. Gilbert spoke at […]
The university unveiled its new climate action plan to ultimately achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 last week as part of its declared commitment to reducing Brandeis’ greenhouse gas emissions in both the short and long term. The new plan emphasizes both energy efficiency and changes in student behavior through education. It makes numerous proposals for […]
Embattled university president Jehuda Reinharz issued his resignation yesterday at midnight, agreeing to stay on until June 2011 or until a replacement is found. Reinharz’s resignation comes as yet another unforeseen suprise in a what has been a long, tumultuous year for Brandeis. Through academic restructuring and financial woes, President Reinharz remained a central figure, […]
Mexican feminist and award-winning activist journalist Maria Hinojosa filled Rapaporte Treasure Hall with her 6th Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture on “The political responsibility of owning one’s voice.” Hinojosa is the managing editor and host of National Public Radio’s Latino USA program as well as senior correspondent for the Emmy-winning PBS newsmagazine “NOW.” The lecture, which […]
The student union primary elections have been moved to Monday. The elections, which were originally scheduled for yesterday, were postponed after the transition to a new election software took longer than the Student Union expected, Student Union President Andy Hogan ‘11 said. Primary elections will be held on Monday starting at midnight of Sunday night […]
In preparation for the launch of the Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) pilot program this summer, professors have begun drawing up plans for individual JBS programs, Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe said. The JBS program is the brain-child of the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering (CARS) committee which developed the idea of JBS as […]
Brandeis University filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss the lawsuit brought against it by three Rose Art Museum benefactors. The motion argues that the suit should be dismissed because the plaintiffs have no standing to file such a suit. Rose Art Museum benefactors and Board of Overseers members Jonathan Lee, Meryl Rose, and Lois Foster […]
Over the past few weeks, frequenters of Usdan and other campus dining facilities have encountered longer lines and larger crowds, in part due to the 122 additional bodies on campus this semester. Such inconveniences are to be expected on a campus whose enrollment is approaching spatial capacity. In the years to come, enrollment will further […]
In order to combat the overcrowding that additional students (and additional tuition) will create, the university has dreamed up the Justice Brandeis Semester, an experiential learning program that requires students to spend one semester away from the Brandeis campus. If the administration expects JBS to solve its overcrowding woes, the meetings about the JBS pilot […]
Students, professors and experts came together yesterday to explore the effects of modern technologies like facebook and twitter, on democracy, journalism and communication at the Ethic Center’s “TMI: Social Justice in the Age of Facebook” conference yesterday. The validity and ethics of the new digital media was hotly debated throughout the first day of the […]
