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Public Safety Officers drew their department issued semi-automatic firearms from their holsters after viewing live video surveillance footage of what appeared to be students in possession of a small firearm in Massell Quad at 8 p.m. Friday night, Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan said. While no one was injured in the incident, this marks […]
The Student Union Judiciary (UJ) ordered Union Secretary Tia Chatterjee ’09 to hold Racial Minority Senator (RMS) elections as soon as possible after finding for the Student Union in the case of Klionsky and McElhaney v. Student Union Sunday evening. The election for the RMS position was postponed for the trial, during which the constitutionality […]
CORRECTION APPENDED The Union Judiciary heard the case of Klionsky and McElhaney v. Student Union at a proceeding on Wednesday that sought to answer whether the Student Union Constitution allows for the positions of Racial Minority Senator (RMS) and Racial Minority Representative to the Finance Board (F-Board). Over the four and a half hours of […]
Director of Brandeis’ Rose Art Museum Michael Rush announced that he did not recognize the univearsity’s Committee for the Future of the Rose as legitimate at a town hall discussion about the future of the Rose yesterday evening. “I do not recognize you as a legitimate committee [because] this supposed attempt at openness and dialogue […]
The Union Judiciary’s decision to hear the case Klionsky and McElhaney v. Student Union yesterday sparked much debate about whether or not the position of Racial Minority Senator (RMS) is necessary for minority involvement in student government or if it is a form of reverse racism. At the trial, where Gideon Klionsky ‘11 claimed that […]
When the university’s Board of Trustees’ authorized the closing of the Rose Art Museum and the sale its 7,183 piece collection, one of the first questions raised by the Brandeis and art world was the legality of the university selling the museum’s art for the university’s profit. Since the authorization broke to the media on […]
The Gerstenzang Science Library’s print collection of periodicals is undergoing consolidation in order to clear the upper level of the library for occupation by the Genetics Counseling Program next year. This change is keeping with plans finalized in 2006 for the future of Library and Technology Services and has no relation to the university’s current […]
The Union Senate went into executive session on Sunday, despite protests from members of the campus media, to discuss a new bylaw amendment that would effectively outlaw bribery in Union elections. The Senate chose to go into executive session in an effort to avoid negative press coverage prior to Union elections. The bylaw amendment, which […]
The university has decreased the number of merit scholarships allocated for the class of 2013, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Jean Eddy announced at the faculty meeting yesterday. Eddy explained that this decrease is necessary in order to “focus on financial need.” Yet while the university is need-blind when it comes to financial […]
