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The number of non-violent crimes on campus has skyrocketed this year, according to Brandeis Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan. “Crime spiked seriously from last year to this one,” Callahan said. “In the past 35 years, this is the highest I have ever seen it.” Campus crime incidents largely fall under one of two categories: […]
In a unanimous decision, the Union Judiciary found a senate money resolution (SMR) granting funds to bring William “Bill” Ayers and Robert H. King to campus to be “null-and-void.” The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice Rachel Graham Kagan ’09, found that the SMR was allocated to a project that was “not a Union project,” […]
The Health Center confirmed that there was no food poisoning in Sherman Dining Hall after 29 students came to the center complaining of vomiting and diarrhea. The complaints came from students falling ill after eating at the dining hall, specifically, in the Kosher section; however, Nursing Director Kathleen Maloney said that these students were suffering […]
With the proposed March 30 William “Bill” Ayers event approaching, sponsoring clubs Democracy for America (DFA) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) do not have sufficient funding to compensate the speaker and to pay security costs, which in total would add up to around $7,000. After the Union Judiciary’s (UJ) decision to overturn a […]
Part III of IV in a series on Academic restructuring The faculty voted to approve the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering (CARS) committee’s business major proposal yesterday, officially approving a major that has long been considered. In order to become a reality, the Business major proposal will have to be passed by the university’s Board […]
Student Union Senator for the Class of 2009 Eric Alterman has filed a complaint with the Union Judiciary (UJ) against class of 2011 senators Lev Hirshhorn and Alex Melman. The complaint is in reaction to the a Senate Money Resolution (SMR) passed by the Union Senate Sunday to help Democracy for America and Students for […]
The university’s endowment has dropped 30 percent, university President Jehuda Reinharz announced at yesterday’s faculty meeting. The figure is worse than the 25 percent figure that university administrators had projected earlier in the semester. Reinharz made the announcement in an effort to encourage faculty members to vote in favor of the proposed Justice Brandeis Semester […]
The Student Union Services committee decided to cut spending on this semester’s midnight buffet after students became outraged upon hearing that the committee had planned to spend approximately $5,000 of the Union’s remaining $8,500 budget on the buffet. Traditionally, the Union hosts a buffet full of free food and entertainment on the last day of […]
Part II in a five-part series on academic restructuring The Curriculum and Academic Restructuring Steering (CARS) committee’s proposed Justice Brandeis Semester (JBS) will require students to take one semester away from Brandeis, adding a professional focus to an otherwise liberal arts curriculum. If JBS is implemented, students in the class of 2014 and beyond will […]
Julia Cohen ‘10 wore a sign reading “HELP, Housing Crisis! Can’t afford number, Can’t sell my number, PULL ME IN” for a half an hour in Usdan on Thursday in order to find students to live with next year. Cohen, whose housing number was somewhere in the 1500’s said that she was looking to live in either a Ridgewood or a Ziv and was hoping to find students who needed to fill their planned suit for the 2009-2010 year. Eventually, Cohen found Maya Gallagher-Siudzinski ‘11 and Jourdan Cohen ‘11 who were
friends of a friend of hers and were looking to fill what they hope to be a Ziv. Cohen said she had never met the two girls before but that it is “to their credit that they would invite me to live with them. I’m not afraid to live with strangers.”
